:banana:I believe!:banana:
:roll:*In some things.*:roll:
:rolllaugh:Just not this.:rolllaugh:
Anyway. I have read this whole thread. All of it. Even the tiny threads on page 15 and 22. And it was interesting. I enjoyed it more than many books I have read. I said above that I don't believe in this, but I can picture a world were this is possible, so I will debate it like I do.
There have been many theories as to how people dreamwalk. I don't know what to accept, probably the radio theory. EDIT: the radio theory is out, thanks to the post by adam has a dream below. I don't know why people dreamstalk, but I think it is for several reasons: they get enjoyment out of it, they get power out of it, and they get expirence out of it. Now, I don't mean they get power that they suck out of the dreamer. I mean they get more powerful by dreamstalking. This might be power over the person, or it might be power over themselves. The expirence part is somewhat similar. By practicing dreamstalking, they get better at dreamstalking and imagining stuff and getting people's attention (The Cusp's theory @
The Nature of Dream Control seems good to me). Why would people want to be better at these things? Because, if you could nightstalk better, it would be easier to convince your boss to give you a raise, you could influence politics, you could get a oil company to give you a discount, ect. Why not practice on a bunch of other people who you don't care about first? Now, their are many reasons good imaginations are useful, for writing books, for art, for music, ect. Getting people's attention while they are asleep is much like getting their attention while they are awake, I believe. Knowing effective ways to get people's attention would help people who want to lower drunk driving, global warming, world hunger, ect. get groups organized. Also, people who know what gets people's attention would also know what doesn't. This would be helpful to people trying to, say, launder money or something. Also, if the techenque for going unnoticed that I read somewere works, (you behave so normally that people forget they see you almost as soon as they do) this would be invaluable to it. The most common reason, I believe, (if dreamstalking isn't too hard to do) to dreamstalk is for enjoyment. There would be two ways to achieve enjoyment out of dreamstalking people: deliberately tormenting them and accedently harming them. Why would you just bully a guy at work or school, if you could bully him when he is alseep too. Or you could bully many more people than you meet in waking life. Or you could bully people just in your dreams so you would have friends in the waking world. On the other hand, like some dude said early in this thread (I'm too lazy to find it; I tried.), one could dreamstalk accidentally. I wouldn't be suprised if over 50% (Made up stat) of the expirenced lucid dreamers on these forums have sometimes done things in their dreams that would hurt the DCs if they were real. I, for example, beat up a car for no reason in a LD and then beat up some random dude with it. The chances of the random dude being the other person in your dream (if, of course, there was one) would probably be suprisingly high if your subcontiousness sensed something odd about them. The attention theory would imply that, if you payed a little more attention to some "DC" since it was odd, it would be more likely to be a target when you decide to do something violent, as you are already paying more attention to them. The "DC" would be another person who you were sharing dreams with, so it would continue to be odd.
Book to read:
Wake by Lisa McMann
The Cusp, I really like your thread on attention.
:offtopic:Has anyone here at least tried to dream in 4D? I have been trying to do this one and off for years, but when I met someone (on this thread) who also tried, I decided maybe I could get help. PM me if you have or you know someone who has.
Dreamhope11, your sig and av are cool.
:woohoo:This is the longest post I've made on these forums.
*I believe in :boogie:s:laugh:m:microwave:i:drink:l:lock:i:poof: e:fly:s:drool: (Yes, I know, a bit of overkill. But that sure beats underkill.)