Quote Originally Posted by sloth View Post
I don't understand why dreams would be considered evil.
Evil is of course a religious term, and religion is about mind control - thought policing. Religions seem opposed to anything that promises the individual freedom and power, and they want to be able to frighten people into thinking their way because when people open up their minds and develop knowledge of their own inner nature they stop believing religious claims. Add to that the fact that to uneducated people Lucid sounds a lot like Lurid, and also that many people (not just religious) are afraid of psychology and the subconscious mind (Freud made it out to be pretty messed up!) and I think it's pretty clear why a majority of people (those who aren't well educated or liberal in their beliefs in particular, in other words most people) get pretty freaked out when people want to talk about dreams in an open and honest way.

I've known a few people who claim never to have dreams and to become indignant and apparently angry if I start talking about them, and to me it screams repression and fear of the repressed. And after all, isn't repression a big feature of many religiouns?