Something interesting happened in my 11th grade class today concerning lucid dreaming.
I'm the only serious lucid dreamer in my class. I've shared it with a few friends, but only I am really trying hard to become lucid. Well, something happened in class today that, as an active dreamer, I found rather interesting.
For an assignment, we were supposed to come up with a product, and make an advertisement about it. Today was presentation day. Watching the presentations, I found that at least 2 groups made an advertisement about a product that would make you "dream what you want". One of them was a "Dream Pillow" on which you could type your scene onto an inbuilt keyboard, and it would transport you there in your dreams. The second was even more interesting, because it resembled the NovaDreamer, yet I know there's no way those students could've known about that device. The function of their product, called the "Dreamer", was: "You put it on before you sleep, imagine what you want to dream." (Sound like MILD anyone?) "The Dreamer will save the image and play it during your REM sleep."
It strikes me as rather interesting that so many people want to control their dreams. I wonder what they would say if they knew it was possible, but that it required work and time. :p Even with the NovaDreamer, you'd have to know how to induce the dreams. There's no such thing as playing an image during REM. Well, just wanted to share. And I also think this ties in with one of these threads here that ask why people don't want to lucid dream. Clearly many people want to be able to "dream what they want". But maybe they don't want to put in the effort.
A final comment from the teacher which I also found interesting. I noted after the dream presentations were over that "there are quite a lot of people who want to control their dreams." She replied that she'd noticed that too, but thought that it wouldn't be fun to control a dream because "then it wouldn't be a dream anymore". I'm not really sure what I think of this, but I sure am glad to be a lucid dreamer, to be thinking about dreams in a completely different light than my classmates. Makes me feel a bit special. :D
