The First Rule About Placebos...

**Burke** · 01-01-2011 03:09 AM

Don't talk about placebos.

I bet many people have been disappointed by a thread about something that will get them lucid, but is really just a placebo, and, not knowing it, they read a reply about it actually being a placebo. So basically, if you know something is a placebo effect, don't say it. Keep it to yourself please

**~~DeletePlease~~** · 01-01-2011 02:16 PM

Oh how I wish people would follow your sound advice.

**Sam1r** · 01-01-2011 03:18 PM

Agreed...probably also the reason the PILD technique didnt work for me...

**kraid** · 01-01-2011 05:19 PM

I'd rather have someone going around saying every technique is just placebo in order to sort out those that really work. Sure you can get one or two lucids by just believing that a technique works but in my experience it never lasts and in the long run it would just create a big mess of misinformation around here

**nina** · 01-01-2011 07:47 PM

Actually, I think Oneironaut recently posted a thread about placebos that would disagree with you. http://www.dreamviews.com/f77/just-h...anyway-108172/

**Burke** · 01-01-2011 08:32 PM

I'm still a little skeptical about that, but I'm open to things. It sounded like in that article they told people it was a placebo but that it would still work, which seems a little contradictory to me. I still think that, even if both were true, the person that didn't know it was a placebo would have more of an effect than the one who did know.