Thread: Why would you not want to lucid dream?

What everyone else has said covers the reasons I can think of and more.

When I talk about it to my boyfriend, I get a sort of eye-rolling, sighing response. I've explained to him many times why I want to LD. It isn't that he doesn't understand it, it's that he's very committed to things being for a 'purpose', and he finds it overwhelmingly pointless to take up time during the day to induce LDs which will have no effect in waking life. Even though he understands they can be really 'fun', he wouldn't spend time and effort to do something just because it's fun.

Originally Posted by dianeva

what everyone else has said covers the reasons i can think of and more.

When i talk about it to my boyfriend, i get a sort of eye-rolling, sighing response. I've explained to him many times why i want to ld. It isn't that he doesn't understand it, it's that he's very committed to things being for a 'purpose', and he finds it overwhelmingly pointless to take up time during the day to induce lds which will have no effect in waking life. Even though he understands they can be really 'fun', he wouldn't spend time and effort to do something just because it's fun.

fun doesn't matter!

I've told my closest friend, and the response was all well and good, but they haven't mentioned since. Too many other things to think about and do I suppose.

But I love it when people say stuff like "I wish I could do that/go there" and I inwardly cock an eyebrow and think "ahh, but you can..."

When I told my friend about lucid dreaming, he said that he had one (didn´t know what it was though) long time ago, but allways when he tried to do something, the dream started from the beginning, until he woke up. So I think the reason he doesn´t get interested is because it was such a dissapointment for him.

PS. I think that people would get more interested if they would find out about it themself instead me telling them about it.

Yeah if only they had at least one lucid dream before I told them about it then it might be a different story...
*Begins seemingly evil plot to shoot a lucid ray at the world*

Some people just aren't interested in it. There are lots of things that some people think is great but others are not interested in.
On the other hand, I think lucid dreaming could be enjoyed by anyone, since you can do anything in them, no matter what waking life interests you have.

On the bright side it must feel great being one of the few people who can do it.

Some people are afraid it can take you away from the real world, and think it is dangerous (like the entire 'OMG that guy shot someone, must be because he LDs!!' story...).

Originally Posted by riverboy

On the bright side it must feel great being one of the few people who can do it.

I'd rather have someone in real life that I could talk about lucid dreaming with.

I agree with all the reasons that have been brought up here like people being lazy, thinking they already know what it is, thinking its too "out there" or that you're just embellishing.

And I think its also just hard to explain such a deep concept to someone who has never thought about it. You're basically trying to cram months or years of your experience with this topic into someone who probably has never heard about it or even knows the words lucid dreaming.

From my experience, whenever I've told someone about it, I can only really tell them the definition (knowing your dreaming while dreaming and thus being conscious during a dream) and a few possibilities from anecdotal experiences of my own lucid dreams. Its like telling someone that you can fly around in your dreams, but there's a big difference between imagining flying around in your dreams and actually flying yourself in a lucid dream.

For instance, there's an almost indescribable feeling you get when you're first lucid in a dream. You know this feeling right? I've read very interesting threads here trying to describe it, and its certainly one of those things that you just know about when someone on here talks about it. But the person you're trying to explain this concept to would not have any reference of that.