Thread: Lucid Dreaming on CBS This Morning

Most don't know about it because they never heard of Lucid Dreaming. When they do hear of it they think of it as a religious occult only issue and not so much of a dream control issue so various people will dismiss it. Some will try it and say they couldn't lucid dream so it must be in our heads. But these people put very little effort into it. They go to bed and believe just by thinking they want to LD they will, and of course don't, so they say we must be mentally messed up for something or doing some form of LSD. They don’t research enough to learn there's a lot of study that goes into it, and learning. Using techniques, maybe certain supplements, and having to train you brain to be aware in a dream if it’s possible (dream signs, etc). You just don’t LD unless you’re natural over night. Many studies have been done and LD is simply controlling your dreams.

There has been research into this since the 1950s. REM sleep cycles and all that. Even in the field of AP. I dont fell like looking up all the people that have been involved, but its been plenty. Look up Stephen Laberge for one (a psychophysiology whom investigated heavy into LDing), The Monroe Institute is one area that focuses only on the LD/AP research area. Keith Hearne, PhD another researcher into this topic. Patricia Garfield PhD spent most of her career researching the topics of dreams and lucid dreaming and wrote many book son the subject. Problem with some of these news media outlets is that they do half-lazy research and say "well since I havent seen any research into it in the last year it probably has never been really researched" and some outlets act like unless everything in the world can be physically displayed than it probably can't be scientifically proven. Its just called "willful ignorance" on their part.

Fear plays into it too. If you’re afraid to Lucid Dream you won’t. Some religions set a mindset that its evil, satanic, not of God, or something supernaturally wrong when it is not. That those whom LD must be in a bizarre dark culture cult.

Originally Posted by ace55

and some outlets act like unless everything in the world can be physically displayed than it probably can't be scientifically proven. Its just called "willful ignorance" on their part.

According to the scientific method, to scientifically proof something you need to have empirical proof, in other words measurable "physical" proof.
So thinking that you can scientifically proof something in this world without physically displaying it, could be willful ignorance on your part.

Please correct me if I misinterpreted anything you said, I just like to use my Wikipedia knowledge~