Thread: where do you see LDing in 15 years

Originally posted by Mystical_Journey


In 15 years i hope Lucid Dreaming isnt capitalised by advertisers trying to drop adverts into your dream while you sleep *

lol, did you see this on futurama

I see it quite as it is, with a few scientific advance like the one's there are now, that any normal person could hardly get this info since its not popular . I guess what seeker said is true, masses need to give importance to their dreams first; its a social global problem that to take care of would need more than 15 years I guess, unless celebrities, politians and religions start making it important for any stupid reason they may all have(not meaning I hate any of the threes opinions), like popularity.

in 15 years we'll be in tubes and machines using us for powere ...lucid dreams will basically be apart of everyone's life...hence we won't know whats going on in the real world...then the "the one" will come and saves us and we'll all be awaked to the real world....

Originally posted by Universal Mind


I have the same problem. *It is absolutely baffling to me that anybody would not be interested in doing this stuff. *I think LDing is about the most interesting activity possible, so I am nowhere near relating to not wanting to get into it. *

Because of this widespread phenomenon, I don't think lucid dreaming will be too much more popular in 15 years. *I think it will be more popular, but not a whole lot. *Most people don't want to get into the discipline necessary to accomplish it. * I also am afraid that certain mainstream religious groups might start denouncing it as some kind of sorcery or voodoo kind of thing if it ever does start to really catch on. * *

I used to think that transcendental meditation is so cool that the whole world would soon be practicing it, but that has not happened. *It takes discipline to get into this type stuff, and most people already have their own disciplines that they are into and don't want to get into new ones. * It is much easier to watch T.V. or play x box and get stoned than it is to go through the steps of becoming a regular lucid dreamer. *That's too bad. *I think lucid dreaming seems too good to be true, but strangely, it is real. *Every time I think about how lucid dreaming is actually a reality, I think I must be dreaming.

well said. i think lack of discipline is the main reason it won't suddenly catch on overnight.

even myself, being VERY interested in lucid dreams, and even having a number of them, find it hard to stay disciplined.

for instance, i know drugs and alchohol make dreamwork virtually impossible for me, and yet i just wasted thursday-today drinking and getting stoned.

partially its because our society is built on 'satisfaction this minute, results now"

and partially its because lucid dreaming (like meditation) is such a personal thing. nobody can really force you to do it, and you alone decide how big a priority it should be. truthfully, sometimes, after a week straight of doing reality checks constantly, viewing the world as a dream, recording dreams at all hours of the night, etc....and still not having a single lucid dream....
i'd rather party at a club, or smoke a joint and admire the ceiling fan with some close friends while we discuss interesting topics (like lucid dreaming).

i mean, let's face it. lucid dreaming takes an enormous amount of effort for most people to master. its certainly one of the most demanding skills i've ever set myself to learning..

better documented, and more researched, but not much more popular.


although it'd be cool if it was the hot new craze, and everybody knew about it, yet few people actually mastered it.
because by then, i'll be a lucid dreaming star, and i could strut around and say things like:

"yeah, i had 23 lucid dreams in a row last night using the WILD method"

Originally posted by Asher


party at a club, or smoke a joint and admire the ceiling fan with some close friends while we discuss interesting topics (like lucid dreaming).

Good times!!! ..... ...... ...... ....... ...... *next morning*

The Good:
Everyone hears about Lucid Dreaming, and they discover a new better easy techique enableing everyone to lucid dream easiylier. It becaomes a theory techique and everyone is much happier seeing that they relive there stress in lucid dreams.

The Bad:
Lucid dreaming becomes a "fad" and lucid dreaming makes you "cool" so instead of people trying to lucid dream they just say they do just to make them seem cool and the real honest lucid dreamers people dont think they even lucid dream as well and ask the fake ones for advice and question and they awnser wrong and lead people away from lucid dreaming.

The Ugly:
Lucid dreaming considered some weird evil cult, everyone hates people who lucid dream, and all the real lucid dreamers have to hide out in San Fransico

I am planning to write a book on Lucid Dreaming in my mother tongue Malayalam. A translation of this website itself will be an encyclopedia.

There is a possibility that after 15 years I will be the Stephen LaBerge of Kerala.

Originally posted by Sortilegio


Good times!!! * ..... ...... ...... ....... ...... *next morning*

heh, isn't that the way it goes...

wow...he's right....that exaclty what happens,lol

Where will Lucid Dreaming be in 15 years? Well, perhaps by then the general public will have gotten over its gullibility regarding the fraud regarding Dream Control. People will realize that not being able to Control everything is not the exception, owing to insufficient technique or inexperience, but the absolute Rule of Dreaming where a Higher Mind then that of the personal Ego is in charge and jealous of Its Power.

Perhaps in 15 years we will have people a bit more respectful of Dream Content. Now, even people who think themselves regular Dream Enthusiasts are held back by their atheistic materialistic tendencies toward a nihilisism that rejects all meaning and substance from their Dreams. They hardly know how detrimental it is to ultimately complain that their dreams are meaningless gumbles from an arbitrary personal subconscious mind. Maybe 15 years is enough time for it to occur to these enthusiasts that the glimmers of meaning they have been trying to ignore, out of loyalty to the dryest scientific principles, must have actually come from Somewhere that is both important and Real... and that there can be Subjective Truths as well as Objective Truths.

First off all, there is nothing wrong with being an atheist, its natural human evolution. Secondly, most dreams are completely meaningless. There are some dreams that mean something, but only if they deeply touch an emotional point in you. Lastly, there is no such thing as "Subjective Truths."

I see Lucid dreaming slightly better known in 15 years. It will be something that everybody has heard of and/or has tired one time or another. There could even end up being a large popular cultish movement with it. Not an evil cult, but just a sub culture that gets really into it. Sort of how some people are very into martial arts and a slightly too obsessive way

I hope lucid dreaming will be more well known and better researched in 15 years. However I doubt many people will take an intrest though, too many people say they are too busy or just can't be bothered to make the effort.

i bet in 15 years they'll have a pill thats like "take this and you'll wake up in you dream and become lucid"...you know with time comes drugs...

Well, pills and video games and things would be nice, but unfortunately I just have to take one thing into consideration. Look at how good we are at science these days, and look at how much we know about sleep.

Next to nothing physiological or scientific.

And it's something people spend a third of their lives doing.

So... if they know nothing about sleep, it's going to be hard for them to figure out dreams, which will be hard to then covince everyone that they should spend so much of their free time and energy on it. So will there be lucid dreaming in the masses, I doubt it.

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...However, the "underground world" of lucid dreaming I expect to explode in 15 years. There will be some very sizeable groups of very dedicated people preaching lucid dreaming. I expect it to start increasing it's prominence in textbooks and in the media. It should eventually snowball into public knowledge, and so when you say you are a "lucid dreamer" you won't get that look of dumb ignorance but the one of "oh, you're on of those." And with that will come certain stigmas hard to overcome in the popular eye. And I expect it to stay like that for a very long time, with the few enjoying the amazing experience that takes hard work and dedication to achieve, like many other things these days.

I'm thinking that in 15 years, lucid dreaming will be more well known. Instead of me talking to a friend and mentioning Lucid Dreaming and him/her not knowing what it is, they will at least know the word or what it means. I would imagine that more pills would be developed aiding in controlling your dreams, remembering them, etc. Maybe progress in devices that could actually record what occurs in the dream(I'm saying true video from the dream which I highly doubt will be possible in 15 years). Too annoyed and tired to think of anything else currently.

I know that I still won't be able to do it.