Thread: Fake dream reports

I agree with the users that mentioned how people lie for the sake of making a cohesive dream in order to impress others. Although it's very petty to rely on the Internet and random strangers for the sake of boosting one's ego, if they have the opportunity to use it, they definitely will. With any community like this, people will take things seriously and even shift social aspects and it becomes a quasi-reality of social interaction for them.

For me, when I first joined this site, I just wanted to post my dream journal entries for the sake of just having some proof of how I advanced myself personally. I didn't really mind posting it publicly, because I always thought, "they're just dreams," and anyone personal in my dreams would just be nicknamed something else for anonymity. There are many factors that contribute to people potentially posting fake dream reports, especially when competition is added on, those factors are so obvious and so significant to these people that it's very hard to ignore.

Especially when there's those few dreamers that make these exquisite dreams where they have an impressing amount of control, where their dreaming love life of a dream character or thought-form is almost too picture-perfect. Then you have people who are depressed with their own dreams, they will look towards those individuals as an inspiration, and sadly, it gets to the point where someone becomes fanboys/fangirls for that specific users. The more they look into their dreams as the epitome of something they should be striving for, the more intimidated, envious, insecure, and passionate they'll be in wanting to do the same. I'm pretty sure any lurker that reads a certain person's dj entry that excites them, they'll develop memories of them where their nostalgia of them makes it impossible to see whether or not they're just exaggerating or not. And if people try to call out on that person lying, the fanboys/fangirls get into DV drama that it's too hilarious to even read.

It almost seems that because of Lucid Dreaming and who has more of it creating a social authority for users, the trivial dreams that are often non-lucid are disregarded.We try to make meaning from them, but we most likely end up conflicting ourselves on whether or not interpreting dreams is just us going through Apophenia, Self-fulfilling prophecies, or a state of consciousness that could really help what we're going through in this life. Even though it really comes down to the user realizing it's for their own sake of improving, I wouldn't be surprised that looking at someone that has these amazing adventures with figments of their imagination would want me or anyone else to go beyond their boundaries and attempt to have better dreams, but for them to lie, it's really only punishing themselves.

Overall though, I understand that people posting fake reports on their dream entries is kind of sad, because it's probably the worst thing you can do seeing as dreams are shining examples in knowing sense of self. However, if we worry too much about what they're doing, we'll start trying to override them by potentially making fake entries as well. Even if DV had other sections eliminated and just Dreaming Sections and Dream Journals alone, it would be hard forgetting that this site is going to be a social cluster either way. Any forum such as this that lets others read people's dreams and how their dreams relates to that other person's dreams and life as well, the urge to expand outward and trying to reach out to other users is inevitable. And the more people try to expand outward socially, all of the negative emotions and behaviors will ride along it as well.