Thread: What is with the lack of interest?

Hmm... As far as interest goes - I have taken a passionate interest in lucid dreaming... The reasons to be interested in it are so major that everyone should be interested in it, right? Not nessecarily.. Even though so much can be gained from dreaming, which happens during the 8+ hours we waste away at sleeping every night, even though you can potentially obtain god-powers with persistence... It's still a matter of whether or not someone's interested in it.

Another example is politics. I would argue that politics is extremely important because the future of society depends on what happens in our government, and that everyone should be involved in it because it's so important. But for the most part, people just don't care. They'd rather sit around and watch football for some reason(I will never understand how football is popular). It's just my luck that most of the things I'm interested in (Star Trek, Politics, Dreaming, Space, Science, Philosophy, yaddayadda), the general population is not interested in remotely.

This is partly because the general population is simple-minded. People want to just live their lives, watch TV, watch sports, and be left alone. Not many people are open-minded about new subjects... Not many people look at the big picture, or focus on what's important for the advancement of the human race. They just don't want to be intellectual because it takes too much effort.

So let them be interested in what they are interested in. Your intellectual friends may be more inclined to take an interest than your average friends. I'm not saying that people that aren't interested in Lucid Dreaming are stupid, mind you. Take my uncle and my father for instance... My uncle is a theoretical physicist, and my father is a computer programmer. They are intellectual, but they are interested in mathematics and science, and I'm more interested in language and history. They are interested in subjects that are more concrete(Numbers, trying to find out the FACTS), where I'm interested in things that are always changing (Languages evolve, history is always in the making). To them, Dreams may be uninteresting because they are immeasurable. You can't clearly define a dream... So it may lose interest for them.

Also, as far as creativity goes... I'm not sure if someone can simply be "Not creative". But then again I've never seen the world through someone else's eyes. I think maybe people underestimate their own creativity. On the other hand, I have met some genuinely boring people. For example, a girl I met in high school. She sat around texting, never said anything worth listening to(if she spoke at all). All she did was fix her hair and check her mirror every five seconds. Very lame. I checked her facebook page once, and it was just an endless line of her boyfriend commenting about how wonderful she was, and her commenting about how wonderful he was. Not one funny picture shared, not one interesting observation shared... There was nothing interesting at all on the page. I once observed that she wore all that make-up because she was translucent(eg. nothing behind the skin)... But who knows? Maybe she was just genuinely boring, or maybe she just THOUGHT she was uncreative, and therefore chose not to share her creative thought?

We can't force anyone to take an interest in lucid dreaming, and we shouldn't. Let those who wish to come, come..