I do love how people call us crazy for lucid dreaming and then we call people crazy for not having an interest in it.
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I do love how people call us crazy for lucid dreaming and then we call people crazy for not having an interest in it.
I think it would be beneficial for us all if LDing was more well known... perhaps more research, experiments would be done and more knowledge of it gained... people would be more open to share their experiences and in turn, if more people talked about it on a regular basis, it would help those who struggle with having LDs to have them on a more regular basis if they could be exposed and engaged in discussion of LDing daily.
But there will always be nonners and naysayers... I used to work with a very intelligent and educated physician's assistant who once said "Dreams are stupid, they're just silly, they don't make any sense and don't mean anything!".... this proved a point to me that some people allow their religions to hinder the possibility of open mindedness, has nothing to do with intelligence..... lmao, or it was just a mormon thing :cackle: (no offense)
...so that's my two cents
I want it to stay like it is right now. For example, gamers used to be only a small group of people, and were considered "Nerds" now everybody plays video games (I'm looking at you call of duty). I hate it when people at school are like "Are you going to buy that new game [insert game name here]" "Naaaw bro, I havn't heard anybody talking about it so it must not be good..." "so what prestige are you at in Em Doubleyou Too? (MW2)" No offense to people who play call of duty, but that is a literal conversation I heard in class once.
One time a guy asked me if lucid dreaming was "some kind of vegetarian shit?".Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterknight
"Yes it is. And masturbation causes blindness" - you should have replied.Quote:
Originally Posted by stonedape
I like that it is unique in that there's no chance for negativity to be associated with it (at least as much). Some may feel threatened with a virtual world that allows you to do literally anything you want.
At the same time, information is not bad. People learning about who they are, what they're capable of experiencing and seeing the world in a totally new way could have a ton of different benefits! It could allow people to be more open with each other when they experience something deep and moving.
It's tough to say what would happen in society if anything if everyone could lucid dream. But for myself, I love the uniqueness. Still, it'd be fun to see where it can go from here. :)
LDing is awesome and I try not to keep it a secret or anything, but I doubt it will be as popular as video games or anything like that because it takes a lot of motivation and most people are not willing to try that hard for something they may or may not believe. Most of my friends that say that they have had lucid dreams before and say that their not that interesting isn't trying to have one. If you keep a dream journal, write in it every morning, and do reality checks daily, you can have great lucid dreaming adventures. It took me almost a month and a half to have my first real lucid and I'm glad I stuck with it. But most people don't take it seriously.
Yeah, it doesn't really matter whether we're open about it or not, I think most people just couldn't handle working towards it every single night. I know its been tough on me, I've trieding milding, wilding, and dilding, using reality checks during the day and attempting every night to induce a lucid dream, as well as recording my dreams with a voice recorder (although I admit sometimes I forget or don't do it in time). My dream recall seems to have improved only slightly and the only lucid I actually had was because I listened to a hypnotic mild-like track on youtube throughout the night and dilded, probably because I was so excited about it. That lucid lasted about 5 seconds, then I woke up. I've been trying for weeks ever since and no luck, not a single lucid.
It's tough, but I'm remaining as vigilant as possible to achieve a state where I can LD once a month at least, and I doubt ill stop there. I don't think most people would be willing to fail so many times to get there like I have, for something they probably know little about.
Most of my friends know about lucid dreaming and have had at least one themselves since I have started talking to them about lucid dreams. I let a friend today read my most recent lucid dream and after reading it she told me that when I die she wants all of my dream journals.
Around my school I have met quite a few lucid dreamers. Im the only dreamviews member that I know of here but still many people are lucid dreamers.
I voted yes. I wouldn't want everybody doing it as there would be certain people attempting to capitalize on the situation - for example, you'd have hundreds of crappy books coming out promising 'instant lucids' or something. People would buy into them but the only people that would be better off would be the authors, seeing as they get to make a quick buck.
I think it's something that takes effort and only those who put that effort in deserve to enjoy it. :)
I kind of like that it's rare but still... If more people would be interested in it, maybe they would try to create some kind of machine or something that would give you LD's all the time. So, mixed feelings.
However cool it may be to have research put into lucid dreams, it is one rare thing nowadays that is passed almost only by word of mouth. One of my friends told me he knows how to do it, but he didn't look into it much, so I did, and I told him about different techniques etc...it was a win-win.
It's sort of cool to have something that someone tells you that is so impossibly mystical, but true if you can get it to happen.