What do your friends/family think about it?

Most of us care what other people think what we are doing no matter if we say we don't give a crap about what other people think. I know this, because my subconscious makes me nervous if I have to go do something that's in public. Possibly a social anxiety disorder.

Anyways... Have you tried getting your friends around into dreaming like you are? Does your family know? What do your friends/family think about it? Do you think it can be discouraging if they think it's silly?

I'll start off by saying my family doesn't know and I'm sure they would think I'm half crazy. I told my cousin about it and he laughed and said I was a dumb f***. My friends take no interest in it. They will listen to me, but all I get from them is "when will he shut up".

My brother does it, in fact he was the one who told me about it. My mom will listen to me talk about it, but doesn't LD. My dad knows about it but I don't think he does it. Some of my friends are interested, some not, and one I know is a natural.

friends for the most part think it as retarded
parents think its not real:mad:

I have friends that believe me and have tried it a few times, but only one has tried to get up to my level. But on the plus side, we spend mornings talking about our dreams openly and... well almost, without odd stares [I can't help it if my teachers over hear these odd dreams].

My family on the other hand doesn't see the point. I have yet to tell any family members outside of my house hold but I'm sure those in the Philippines would go with it happily, they're all superstitious and traditional in the sense of regarding dreams at the very least.

I mostly keep to myself about it, but I think my dad is starting to wonder why I laugh so much when he tells me about dreams he had that he considered "weird" :D.

Hehe, I think if I were him I might of too... lucky me, my dad can't rmemeber his dreams and my mom only tells me her fish/food related ones [I could swear fish is the happiest thing on Earth in her book].

Some of my friends look at me funny when I laugh too, I once laughed at a friend for telling me about how she murdered a blue cow and the world went red... then my English teacher just looked at us funnier than they did to me.

I'm very selective about whom I tell. Only a few friends have I ever felt could "handle the truth". They were each receptive to the idea and some even took enough interest to have at least one of their own. So at least I have them to vouch that it is a real phenomena. I do have a friend that's a fairly proficient LDer and we've talked about it a few sparse times.

In all, I've taught LDing to three friends over the years.

I told one of my brothers once and he said that he's "known he was dreaming before" but didn't show much interest beyond it having been a curiosity that once occurred to him. None of my other family knows about it. Well, I did mention its possibility to my Grandparents once to see if they'd take an interest. They didn't seem too impressed so I never brought it up again.

I've also mentioned to my roommate before that it's possible. He also took a somewhat disinterested stance so I let it lay.

My mum knows about it, because she knows about my pre-cognative dreams, I have told a coupd e of friend,s and stuff, but most peoolke dismiss it...

Im not a lucid dreamer so I dont know what you are talking about. :?

Oh, you get pre-cognitive dreams too? Adam?!? Yay! I don't feel so alone in the world [I mean, I know that they're probably a lot of people on DV who have them too, it's just nice when someone you know admits to it too :)]

As for those dreams, I've only told my best friend and my parents. I've tried to tell my real dad before but he just always forgets [probably doesn't care so he doesn't really listen]

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Oh, you get pre-cognitive dreams too? Adam?!? Yay! I don't feel so alone in the world [I mean, I know that they're probably a lot of people on DV who have them too, it's just nice when someone you know admits to it too :)]

As for those dreams, I've only told my best friend and my parents. I've tried to tell my real dad before but he just always forgets [probably doesn't care so he doesn't really listen]

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Ahhhhh cool. We should start a joint pre-cog dream journal and see who can get the most things right :lol:

My grandma is quite into it, ly mum couldn't care less, my sister doesn't believe in lucid dreams as a direct result of all sorts of cazy spiritual stuff my dad attatches to it, which sounds a lot more absurd than anything ever written here :P

Friends also couldn't care less.

A friend of mine is taking some pills for weight training which has B6 in it. He is reporting all these trippy dreams :lol: I keep wanting to tell him about LDs but worried he will think I am a weirdo :(

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A friend of mine is taking some pills for weight training which has B6 in it. He is reporting all these trippy dreams :lol: I keep wanting to tell him about LDs but worried he will think I am a weirdo :(

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I remembered you mentioned those, what type are they exactly? I figure I can cheat and use B6 if it helps me with weight training. :P

I've only told a few people, and no one thinks I'm crazy, but I also don't think they quite "get" it. I sometimes get "Oh yeah... I have dreams where I can fly too!"

No one really seems to understand how real these dreams can get, and how exhilerating the entire experience can be.

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I remembered you mentioned those, what type are they exactly? I figure I can cheat and use B6 if it helps me with weight training. :P

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http://www.maximuscle.com/zma?tc=GBz...FQ7dlAod0jyzZA

I have precognitive dreams too. They are slight ones though. Just people I meet when I wake up the next day. I assume I had one mmm... 2 nights ago. I dreamed about this girl I know we don't talk much anymore or see each other much since I'm out of school and she isn't. She came up to me the next day and punched me in the arm out of the blue.

Before I dreamed about her I seen a photo of her at her best friend's house. Photo then sleep = next day = a meeting with her. Precognitive or coincidence right after it happened I thought of the dream I had.

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Ta very muchlly.

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Most of us care what other people think what we are doing no matter if we say we don't give a crap about what other people think. I know this, because my subconscious makes me nervous if I have to go do something that's in public. Possibly a social anxiety disorder.

Anyways... Have you tried getting your friends around into dreaming like you are? Does your family know? What do your friends/family think about it? Do you think it can be discouraging if they think it's silly?

I'll start off by saying my family doesn't know and I'm sure they would think I'm half crazy. I told my cousin about it and he laughed and said I was a dumb f***. My friends take no interest in it. They will listen to me, but all I get from them is "when will he shut up".

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yeah my mum thinks that people who are 'posting' their dreams and lucid experiences on the net are just looking for attention lol but i take no notice (shes very close minded) my mate who studies physcology has heard of lucid dreaming but never put it to the test, we often discuss our dreams jus 4 the fun of it. But i understand where your coming from, many people don't like to open to the possiblity of much...but thats their loss...

Hehe, some of my friends 'get' it but 'don't get it' if that makes sense. They get the concept and have experienced it but never toyed with it or been exposed to it's more abstract and surrealistic potentials.

As for more on pre-cognitive dreams. It'd be cool to do a group, but my issue is I'm lazy at writing down short things since mine usually come like HI when I sift between dreams [though when I try to place the order back into the right place, it's always so hard because it seems like it could have been before or after stuff].

I found another funny thing about them in the past few years too. Sometimes my pre-cognitives aren't 100% on the spot, some words are different from RL experience when it happens and I'm like "Wait... WT*, wasn't 'that' supposed to be 'this'" or some minor edit. The context is still the same though, I've noticed that with a couple of 1 month later pre-cognitives :eh: it's just strange

Hey check this out then :) http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...624#post483624

The other day my friend came up to me and said "dude I had this cool dream last night... it was like I knew I was dreaming or something."
I got to explain it all to him... but he probably woudn't have believed me if I had told him before it happened to him.

I get a bit of a variation.

My little sister entirely believes it, I got her into it.

One of my friends looks like he wants to smack me whenever I talk about it, he thinks I'm and idiot for it. Another friend I have completely believes and is trying to do it, though apparently without much success.

I started to explain to my dad once, and he looked at me like I was a purple Leprechaun with two heads playing a bass guitar. I just stopped and changed the subject, since it was a lost cause.

Yeah no one likes rejection. And people who are close minded seem to deprive themselves from good times.

I grew up being teased, made fun of, and being made out as the bad guy in almost all the situations in my life. This made what I am today. Lonely, Temperate (not temper-mental), Shy, Timid, Afraid. This is who I have become to my family like I have a front always up.

This might sound like a cop-out, but I feel like I have a slight to mild social anxiety disorder, because of the way I was raised. I broke down a couple of months ago and told my grandma how I felt after coming home from Trying to take an ACT test (I left because my nerves got to me). I told her everything I have said here and she apologized and told me not to worry. This has helped a slight bit, but it's still in my head.

Now to my friends I'm the total opposite, because I know I can say just about anything I want to them without having them scowl at me every time I try expressing myself even if it is "out there".

Anyways, my point is that no matter if your friends, parents, siblings or whoever for that matter rejects you for being who you are or for the things you like to do (in this case lucid dreaming). Thank God for DreamViews. Here people know that they can talk about anything (most likely anything) without being judged as a kook for it. :rolleyes:

I made one of my friends watch Waking Life and explained lucid dreams. He seems interested, but unmotivated. He told his girlfriend, who also became interested. She dreamt she was visiting me at my place for some reason. My girlfriend knows as well, and she started keeping a dream journal. It's awesome how we tell eachother our dreams and then try to interpret them. :)

I don't tell my family anything. They're narrowminded.

My mother is jealous cause she has nightmares and wishes she could LD. But she is doing so much in her life rigt now...to learn how to LD would be overlaod for her, as we all know it takes some people a long time to learn (I think those who take longer to learn are amazing for sticking to it), My father has had them all his life, not really on purpose, but he's one of those, I am gonna do whatever I want people. He doesn't remember his dreams though that often.

My friends are just like...ok thats nice...etc.

I think most of my friends are like whatever cause they don't get why its interesting. So you have hallucinations? thats nice...Is pretty much their mentality. I actually heard the word "lucid dream" from one of my friends...she's one of those paganistic people. She converted from christianity to like a mix between druidic and some other religion X.X. I don't think its wicca though. (I wonder why so many teens are attracted to Wicca...)

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It's crazy teens who go too far with D&D and Harry Potter. :?

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Lol for sure! =)

I talk to my little brother about it all the time (he's only 14 months younger than me). He thinks I'm a little crazy but he's cool with it for the most part. I was "forced" to mention it to my dad because I forgot I had a subliminal messaging program running on his computer and he got all freaked out thinking it was a virus so I explained lucid dreaming to him a little bit. He really didn't care too much as long as I removed the program. No big deal though, it's on my own computer. My mom doesn't know because I haven't told her and neither do either of my sisters.

I've mentioned lucid dreaming to a couple of my friends. Both of which have made some attempts at it. One of these friends tends to smoke a little too much pot so his dream recall and motivation really aren't complete. My other friend gave up on it after one night of failure.

I've been studying lucid dreaming for about fifteen years, but I've been interested in or studying dreaming for as long as I can recall.

At first, when I told my husband I wanted to buy a NovaDreamer, he just humored me. My interests have always been eclectic and often esoteric...he thinks this is cool, but he also knows I'm a little flaky - by my own admission:D

My sister and one of my cousins find the idea of lucid dreaming fascinating, yet have never tried it.

One of my husband's friends was interested enough to borrow some of my books on the subject.

But unfortunately, most of my extended family thinks I'm just immature, wasting my time on yet another silly idea. I don't even try anymore to discuss the concept with them. In fact, I have one sister who keeps telling me that something is wrong with me because she is sure that people are not even supposed to remember their dreams! I don't know where on earth she got that idea. (Of course, this is the sister who actually lectured me one time about me taking anti-depressants. She used herbal remedies at the time and had this holier than thou attitude about the whole thing. She never considered that my degree of depression might possibly have been more severe than hers. Now, years later, she's on Wellbutrin. ;))

These days I only bring up the subject with friends if I know they are open-minded or if the subject of dreams comes up in conversation. I discuss it often with my children. A lot of times, we'll spend dinnertime sharing our dreams.


Why expose myself to ridicule or closed-minded ignorance if I don't have to? I shall believe what I choose to believe and no one has the right to judge me or my beliefs.

This is one of the reasons I am so glad to have found a forum like this one where I can share my experiences, my beliefs and theories, with other people who are like-minded.

I'd like to thank all of you who post here on these boards and share your experiences, as well as your knowledge and advice.

Tina

I consider my mom to be a master at lucid dreaming - and she had never heard of the term before I started learning about it! In recent months I've really been amazed after talking to her about this type of stuff, and I had never known much about her in this regard until I got serious about Buddhism. She can practically have an OBE at will and has been following her dreaming for many years. She's told me about shapeshifting into a bird and exploring caves in Arizona and things like that, and it's pretty funny because sometimes she'll talk about her long lucid experiences the morning after like they were a chore and she would rather just rest, while I'm in awe and wishing I was that advanced. She's really helpful though because she reminds me to be patient and to treat it as a life-long process.

Now for my friends, one was very skeptical and thought LDs were like day dreams, but he actually had one and now knows how incredible they are. It's interesting though, how most people really don't care when you mention lucid dreaming to them, even though in my opinion it's the most fun you can possibly have as a human being. Oh well.

? Had he never had a dream before? Lol why did he think it was like day dreaming? Hehe I love the kinds of things people come up with to understand lucid dreaming when they've never had it before.

They don't believe its real, and some think im retarded.
iv gotten to the point of just not caring to tell anyone

fuck them. if they don't wanna know something so great as lucid dreaming
thats there own damn fault

One of my friends I know has LD's sometimes and we chat about it sparingly when it comes up, my cousin has LD's, and my little sister has dreams, but not really LD's.

Anytime I start talking about a dream I had my dad goes "Oh geez here goes again with his crazy dreams" and leaves the room, my Mom kind of tunes me out, and my other sister listens she might be interested, but she doesn't remember any of her dreams like 1 every few months.

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One of my friends I know has LD's sometimes and we chat about it sparingly when it comes up, my cousin has LD's, and my little sister has dreams, but not really LD's.

Anytime I start talking about a dream I had my dad goes "Oh geez here goes again with his crazy dreams" and leaves the room, my Mom kind of tunes me out, and my other sister listens she might be interested, but she doesn't remember any of her dreams like 1 every few months.

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I bet she remembers more than she can recall...lol does that sound wrong? I mean, if I don't remember to remind myself that I remembered the dream, I usually forget I even had one...then 3 months later some random thing will trigger a teeny tiny piece of it. But i'm just saying what you already know heh.

Naw man she doesn't remember jack shat from dreams like nothing it's just pitch black nothing ever existed in the first place dreams. She says she never remembers any of her dreams. And when she does it's like once in a blue moon.

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Naw man she doesn't remember jack shat from dreams like nothing it's just pitch black nothing ever existed in the first place dreams. She says she never remembers any of her dreams. And when she does it's like once in a blue moon.

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Darn that must suck =(. Unless she doesn't like dreaming.

I told one of my friends about LD and she looked at me funny and said "okay, why would you want to do that?" She was so obviously uncomfortable with the idea. It makes me sad that people are like that. I explained to her that it was completely harmless and very very interesting. She didn't say anything else.

A lot of people I've talked to think its really cool but are convinced they could never learn to do that. They think I am just good at weird stuff like that, bummer. I don't know about you guys but when I experience something really interesting or profound, I really want to share it with everybody. I want them to have it as well, you know. Ugh, people and their preconceived ideas :(

Some friends make fun of me.. Mom thinks its crap. Dad thinks its possible but barely.. Other friends find it interesting but don't care to try it.. So except for this website I'm all alone.

My friends are very dismissive about the idea and are not open to it, except one but he seems asthough he can't be bothered doing it, my sister got interested but then lost interest, my brother doesn't like it because he doesn't like me knowing anything, he thinks i shouldn't be knowledged, my parents are very dismissive also, they just think it to be some sort of weird thing. Shame that they are missing out i suppose...

Where to start? Parents feel as though its a waste of time: "You need to get in the real world!" My little brother thinks im crazy, and loves to make fun of me for writing down my dreams in my "Dream Diary" as he says, condescendingly.

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I told one of my friends about LD and she looked at me funny and said "okay, why would you want to do that?" She was so obviously uncomfortable with the idea. It makes me sad that people are like that. I explained to her that it was completely harmless and very very interesting. She didn't say anything else.

A lot of people I've talked to think its really cool but are convinced they could never learn to do that. They think I am just good at weird stuff like that, bummer. I don't know about you guys but when I experience something really interesting or profound, I really want to share it with everybody. I want them to have it as well, you know. Ugh, people and their preconceived ideas :(

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In reference to the girl in your first paragraph, I find that people who refuse to do something just because it is strange or perhaps socially weird--disgust me. It's much like people who are extremely ignorant, yet someone still feel they are correct in their ways of thinking.

I told my cousin, he joined dreamviews, I told my one friend, he joined, I told another friend, he's to lazy to join, my other friends dont care, and one thinks its impossible, and onother one stole my lucid dreaming book for a month.

Well, after putting myself out on a limb and talking freely about LDing to my friends, they have steadily come around to admiring the ability. My father seems mildly interested, but otherwise he doesn't seem to care much(though he likes the idea of EP's). My mother is super supportive, as she is with everything I do. My bro was interested, and probably still is, but I don't think he has ever gone beyond that (like trying to learn techniques on how to do it). My fiance seems to enjoy it as well, probably because it makes me happy (which makes her happy).

My friends think its gay. :(

I've tried but they won't change there minds. They just go through my dream journal and embarress me.

My mom has actually had a lucid dream:lol:

and my cousin, sugarglider11, introduced me to it.

The only person I've ever told was my brother. That bastard got a WILD the first night.

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Nobody I know seems to be interested in it, no matter how hard I try to show them how it works. They just end up saying, "wow you're really into this dream stuff."

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My friends think its gay. :(

I've tried but they won't change there minds. They just go through my dream journal and embarress me.

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You should just type your dreams into a text file, put a password and hide it well.

My best friend thinks im going crazy because i kept looking at my watch and asking myself ' Am i Dreaming'.
I don't think people would really understand the beauty and agony of Lucid Dreaming without experiencing it.
Heck, even my so called 'Spiritual and Religious' sister thinks im Mental.

Now, i just keep whatever it is regarding Ld to myself.

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My friends think its gay. :(

I've tried but they won't change there minds. They just go through my dream journal and embarress me.

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Well just punch them in the head.

Well i told my family about it they think its just something they dont really care for it and think im just being weird when i talk about it, my closest friend is really the only one iv talked to about it he thought it was cool but i could tell he wasn't really interested himself. If your friends think its dumb and actually make fun of you for it well then why are they your friends?

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My best friend thinks im going crazy because i kept looking at my watch and asking myself ' Am i Dreaming'.
I don't think people would really understand the beauty and agony of Lucid Dreaming without experiencing it.
Heck, even my so called 'Spiritual and Religious' sister thinks im Mental.

Now, i just keep whatever it is regarding Ld to myself.

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haha, am I dreaming....

I've only told one friend. He knew about the subject and listened to a few of my rants, but in the end doesn't really care. Sad, he's turned into a real asshole the past few months, I HATE how women change some people.

Another friend really surprised me when he said he's sort of trying to drown out his dreams, since he thinks about them too much while he's awake. At first he's one of those people that seems ignorant and only skin deep, but has very much surprised me lately with his complexity (he's one of those "losers" that people don't really give a chance). I will surely explain it to him sometime in the near future.

I told my parents, cos my dad knows what its like and we both think its cool. He used to keep a dream journal, has a whole years worth of dreams, but I dont think he tried to gain lucidity. My mum took no interest, but I didnt really want or expect them to start trying, was just letting them know how cool it is. If I wanted to I could probably get my dad into it but meh.

As for friends?... naaaah. They might be interested deep down, but I dont think most of them would get it... proabbly just mock me about it or something... yeah they act too immature most the time.

I'm kinda new to all of this, but I do know that the vivid dreaming thing runs in my family. My family is always talking about wacko dreams they have and sometimes different people have deja vu moments where they think things are from a dream. Perhaps it's just the mind playing games - I'm not sure. Hopefully I'll understand more about all of this soon. For now I'm going to keep all this to myself and see how it develops for me.

I actually like the idea of having my own 'realm' where anything and everything is possible.:banana:

Now I just have to see if I can learn to control my dreams ...

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Most of us care what other people think what we are doing no matter if we say we don't give a crap about what other people think. I know this, because my subconscious makes me nervous if I have to go do something that's in public. Possibly a social anxiety disorder.

Anyways... Have you tried getting your friends around into dreaming like you are? Does your family know? What do your friends/family think about it? Do you think it can be discouraging if they think it's silly?

I'll start off by saying my family doesn't know and I'm sure they would think I'm half crazy. I told my cousin about it and he laughed and said I was a dumb f***. My friends take no interest in it. They will listen to me, but all I get from them is "when will he shut up".

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Great question :) I tried telling people about my dreams when I was a teenager, they all thought I was mad and looked at me like I was off my rocker. It stopped me mentioning them to anyone apart from my really close friends who mainly rolled their eyes at me. I would sometimes say 'oohh I had this real good dream last night' which was a cue for them to start talking about anything other than my dream so eventually I stopped telling people. I do discuss my dreams with both my kids who have similar dreams to me but even my husband just rolls his eyes and tuts. My husband says he never dreams so when I told him that he would be dreaming but just cant remember he again rolled his eyes and said 'well they cant be that interesting if i cant remember them'

But..... a while ago at work my work partner asked me what I had been doing before I came to work. I told her I had been on here (against my better judgement lol) and told her a bit about the site and omg she became really interested and started telling me dreams she has had. It is brilliant!! The only thing is that so far I havent managed to talk about my dreams cos I think shes telling me about every dream she has ever had and I cant get a word in edgeways :lol:

It's funny that I care what some people think, but not others.

I told my immediate family, and they think it's pretty cool, though they don't participate in it. I know that they aren't just pretending to be interested, because they always ask me if I had any lucid dreams last night. (Although, there is no chance in me teaching it to them [exept for my brother] because they always say "I just like to sleep at night.")

I told my grandparents on my mom's side of the family, and they do not like the idea very much. My grandma says it's not possible, even thought I tell her it is, and my granddaddy is a bit interested when I tell him about mine, but he also says he'd rather "just sleep." I don't care though, I actually like to taunt them with information about it.

I have also told my grandparents on my dad's side of the family, and my aunt, and they love it. My grandma (whom I call Nanny) says she has pre-cognitive dreams, and she is very interested in the subject. Papa doesn't give much input, though he does seem interested. My aunt is extremely interested, as she has also had pre-cognitive dreams, and has expirienced SP. I think she said she even took a class in dreaming and dream interpretation.

As for friends, I've told my best friend, and she says "Your crazy!" I sort of care about that, because I would have liked her to try it with me. I've also told my online friend from Wales, and she loves it. She almost had a WILD on her first try, so I think in the future she might be pretty good at it.

After coming out to my family and almost driving my mother to kill herself, talking about Lucid-dreaming is a walk in the park. I've always talked about dreams with my brother and sister since I can remember, and these days my mother still tells me about her dreams about winning the lottery, which still makes me laugh.

But on a related note, I've become a lot less concerned about people's opinions about how I perceive the world, but outer and inner. It's impossible to switch off your perception of what others think of us, and actually it's quite important in gaging how far we have come and how we've changed. Honestly though, you need to tune out a lot of it just to remained focused on yourself.

It's only selfishness when you tune others out altogether, really. LD-ing is awesome, and we all know that. Being content with your own sheer satisfaction is enough for it to radiate out into others. It's all a question of whether they're tuned into it or not.

Vibrations, baby. :lol:

I told my sister and she said she wouldn't want to control her dreams, and doubted it was even possible. I have a friend who LDs naturally, but he isn't really the kind of guy you discuss dreams with (into beer, rugby and birds :p) My parents have no idea that I LD, and I mentioned it in passing to my brother who nodded and said "yeah, sounds pretty cool".

My fiancee humours me, and can LD when she spots a dream sign (eg: when I'm in her dream and we're apart) but never refers to it as lucid dreaming.

Ironicly, the person who most understood my lucid experiences was an ex who was deeply into wicca, and via me got into lucid dreaming. Not sure if she still does it...

All in all, I have few who understand what I do, and I come here because 9 out of 10 people on this forum can and enjoy lucid dreaming. Also lets me explore more of the advanced stuff!

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Well lucid dreaming did get a write-up in the New York Times.. you could always show them this article: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=43631

My friends are far too wrapped up in the real world and their own persuits,so I never mentioned it to them.I dont really like my dad,so I didnt tell him(I do tell him about some of my dreams,but he doesnt really pay attention.)My mom always has highly amusing dreams,so I think she'd be interested,but I havent gotton around to telling her about LD yet.

My friends don't really know about it and my family just can't imagine what it's like. Actually I did get few feedback or comments about it, which leaves me guessing what they really think.

Thinking about it, I had an interesting conversation about sleep paralysis with my Auntie, I should have gone into lucid dreaming... I might do this next time I see her, would be awesome if this is something she can do too! She tells me she has had SP so wonder if she has become lucid too.... :D

Both friends and family don't take lucid dreaming seriously. I'v tried to explain how amazing it and get them interested but it didn't work. My brother is the most interested and he isn't really interested, he's had a lucid dream before.

A few of my friends understand this.

My family likes to appear to believe me, on my moms side, but they really dont. Theyre the "oh lets be all family family and have christmas and birthdays together and cookiecutter houses and when we retire we will own an RV and travel the world!"

My dads side is pretty down to earth with it. But thats most likely b/c theyre too stoned out of their minds to understand what I'm saying. I'd say really only my brother and I have decent conversations about Lucid Dreaming

I told 2 of my friends about lucid dreaming. One of them is more into it and they both have accounts here on DV. The more into it is more of a natural and is pretty active. The other has had like 3 ld's i think. He's not very active here but he said he would start trying lucid dreaming again on the hols (1 week from now). I did tell my brother once but he said it wasn't real. Meh, his loss. Yeah, so the only people I talk to about it are those 2 friends. :)

It amazes me that people don't find lucid dreaming to be awesome. It's like saying you don't want to be god in your own world.

I bet alot more people would be interested if they fully understood Lucid Dreaming.

my family is sooooooo bored when i talk about it
they follow the "there's nothing boring like other's dreams" line

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Originally Posted by italianmonkey

my family is sooooooo bored when i talk about it
they follow the "there's nothing boring like other's dreams" line

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Yeh doesn't it just annoy you! :angry:

I've told my brother and he showed intrest but nothing more. I also told my friends some said they know their dreaming on a daily bases (liars) but cant describe any of it... they just think im crazy on the other hand some belive me and think it's cool but they never "get around" to trying it. My best friend though has been on this site once and read about shared dreams and said he'd try ld if i apeared in his dream to make him do a rc :/.

~Luc

My mum knows about it but thinks its pretty weird, I'm like "but mum, it's scientific, it's not anything weird!" She probably thinks it's odd also because I'm into other "strange things". I tell her "but wouldn't you love to be able to do anything you want, ANYTHING?! You can in a lucid dream". She's pretty uncreative and uninterested in anything like that though so she's largely not very interested!

My best friend and I used to talk about it and tried to have them, but I was more interested than her and as far as I know, she's never had one. Another friend can do them naturally so we'd talk about how cool they are, and my brother is a natural too, but his are mostly scary I think (alcohol probably messing with his dreams) and we've not really talked about controlling them, so I don't think he likes them that much. I've not told anyone else.

Most people just don't get how amazing lucid dreaming is! Ah well, it's there loss isn't it.

My dad thinks I'm crazy, my mom thinks I waste too much time thinking/reading about it, my younger brother is a bit interested, but not much, and my younger sister likes to mock me about it, but she's somewhat interested. I think she thinks I'm to obsessed with it. My best friend thinks I'm an idiot whenever I mention it, and doesn't want to hear about it. I have to friends who showed interest, and one started a DJ. I would stop talking about it so everybody doesn't think I'm crazy, but I talk so much that it comes out at one point.

Well my mum does not really care...my step dad thinks he does it every single night even though he has no clue what im talking about (its a long storey but he is convinced he can do everything) my brother thinks im strange.

I told some people I work with and they all think im insane, like seriously warped. But then again if its not football I am talking about then they dont care. Although there is one girl who actually took me seriously and started to read exploring the world of lucid dreaming but stopped because it gave her strange dreams ha ha

Well, I told my mom not to worry if she hears a vibrating cellphone in the middle of the night, and she doesn't seem to remember/care much. I didn't mention it to my dad but I'm sure he would either not care or lecture me on something or other which for some reason he just loves to do. My (best) friends are as follows - One of my friends is a natural at LDing, she says she LDs every night (not sure if I believe that but I believe that she has them), and another one of my friends seems to be naturally quite good at it too, as she likes to talk about dreams where she can do anything but I don't know if she knows what it's called. Another however is around the same place as me and we are both keeping DJs. I had my first a day or two after she had hers. ^^ I need to get her to get an account here. And then the other doesn't know and I'm sure doesn't care.