Silly section.

[Hugh]

Hi there peeps. Topic would be more appropriately named 'Counter-productive Section'. I believe the dream control section is an unnecessary part of the forum; it inhibits dreamers and their control in my opinion, rather than improving/promoting it. All the threads in here, or most of them, seem to be about users not being able to achieve certain things in their dreams, may it be minuscule tasks, or rather large and formidable ones. It may be useful for users to be able to post their issues and have responses given to them, however what impression does a section like this give to someone who's not lucid dreamt before? Or who is considering dream control more seriously and wants to know more about the possibilities? I'll tell you what it does, it imposes a fictional limit, especially on the easily influenced. Personally, I believe dream control should be an unwritten law; people should go into dreams (lucid of course) and know that they are going to have control over everything, rather than hearing X, Z and Y failed at this technique, so there's a good chance it's going to be hard for them to accomplish too. Stickies, tips, all of the threads that aren't related to inability should be kept as a confidence boost and a way of teaching the dream-illiterate that they are able to do whatever they want (as of course, it's a completely new concept and type of freedom if you've never had it before) - however promoting publicly accessible threads with people making commonplace of failed attempts at control I think give a bad influence or image of the dreamworld to new/inexperienced dreamers. Without a doubt, it's useful to have all the posts within the thread to help the user with their predicament... however would they have doubts in themselves if they'd had nothing but positive, confident words burned into their skulls from square one? Just food for though, opinions are welcome - I just know that most people take the negative things away from discussions rather than the positive (and surreal) ideas, as negativity tends to be easy to accept. Thanks.