Quote Originally Posted by Jabre View Post
yeah, so true. I've tried to get friends into it, but I don't try anymore.
Both of my parents are convinced that most LDers are psychotic and/or neurotic.
It stems largely from the Texas shooting.
The media wrongly attacked LDing as the root motive.
They claimed that the perpetrator believed he was dreaming, when in reality LDing is about DISTINGUISHING the two states of consciousness. Andthe guy clearly had a lot of issues, so you can't blame one small facet of his personality...

And what facts did the news corporations have? That he may have had lucid dreaming as a hobby. Where did they get them? from one YouTube video and his friend that clearly didn't even know what it was. I don't know if anybody else has experienced stereotypes from this exact incident, my parents were a perfect example of the typesetting and stigmatization of a people.
I hate the mainstream media, doesn't seem to matter what happens they always want to further polarize our society by turning us against each other, whether it be through politics, or causing grief for some group of people just because of the actions of 1 nut case that may or may not have even fit into that group in the first place. Its usually just a bunch of ignorance about violence. I'll get my news from a source less concerned with ratings and then form my own opinions. /rant

Quote Originally Posted by kiwifrommars View Post
I get so excited about this stuff and am very let down when someone really important to me doesn't care about it at all. Because I know they have no clue what thy're missing out on.

It's unfortunate. People are just not used to different things. Lol Jabre, sometimes my parents ask if I'm on drugs whenever I relay any exciting nighttime adventures... Lol!!

We all have to sleep anyway, and will spend a great deal of our lives in this state. It's unfortunate people don't want to take advantage of it But there's still all the people that do!!
Most people sleep what 6-8 hours to get a good night's sleep, that's between 25%-33% of the entire day spent in bed. That's a lot of time to let go to waste. Most people who seem to understand that that just turns out to be wasted time only end up depriving themselves of sleep and then causing other problems. Why not instead make the most of your time spent sleeping? Besides dreams, at least in my opinion, are one of the most interesting things to even happen in the course of a 24 hour day that you can depend on happening on a regular basis. That's at least my way of seeing it, of course, I would guess that's probably the general consensus around here anyway.