Thread: Not To Good To Be True.

Originally Posted by JasKrab

I think most people just find it silly. Its a kids thing right? Waking up in the middle of the night because of a nightmare and monsters. Or when they ramble on about weird dreams while you're eating breakfast.

Its just a common phenomenon you had when you where a kid and you learn to dismiss such toughts (like nightmares). Public opinion is just negative towards dreaming because they don't really know what it actually can offer.

Most people don't remember dreams at all or automatically forget the dreams when waking up as its routine. So why suddenly think its special?

It can be more than that. For some people it's sort of taboo; like something you shouldn't talk about.
For instance, try saying to someone ,"I had a dream about you last night", and watch them start moving away from you!
I frequently have dreams where family, colleagues or friends appear, but except for close family I don't mention it at all.

I do wonder though if LDing is destined to remain on the fringes of society, as just an oddity?
One problem is that it is actually quite hard for most people to do at all, let alone well, and as in most things in life, that fact alone means only a small fraction will enjoy it.

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I do wonder though if LDing is destined to remain on the fringes of society, as just an oddity?
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I have said before that I believe that LDing will be huge at some point in the future. Perhaps as big as anything. That's not some vain hope - I see it as being inevitable, but only when induction becomes easy through devices or pills.

I agree. I think dreaming is becoming more acceptable in popular culture. And with the hope of virtual reality, it's similar to LD, only a lot more expensive and limited.

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

I have said before that I believe that LDing will be huge at some point in the future. Perhaps as big as anything. That's not some vain hope - I see it as being inevitable, but only when induction becomes easy through devices or pills.

Hmm, I don't think that will happen, only because each person is different, and the process of induction is unlikely to be easy what ever.
Pills are a no-no for many people, regardless of how safe they are claimed to be. There are bound to be side-effects or problems with tolerance or dose ineffectiveness (can't remeber the medical term where you have to take more and more to work).
Devices will have their place I'm sure, but the very nature of LD'ing will make them less than 100%. I still think devices will always have the problem that they will either wake the subject up, or not induce.
I thnk they have to work with your own capability to be effective.

I think you need to dream a bit bigger when it comes to thinking about our future, Goldenspark Or maybe just look a little further ahead. There will come a future when our own consciousness is just as malleable as putty in our hands. At some point of the journey to that there will be technology that allows us to play with our sleeping minds. (As long as some warmongering idiot hasn't decided that blowing us all up with nuclear bombs should be a priority, of course.)

Originally Posted by Goldenspark

Hmm, I don't think that will happen, only because each person is different, and the process of induction is unlikely to be easy what ever.
Pills are a no-no for many people, regardless of how safe they are claimed to be. There are bound to be side-effects or problems with tolerance or dose ineffectiveness (can't remeber the medical term where you have to take more and more to work).
Devices will have their place I'm sure, but the very nature of LD'ing will make them less than 100%. I still think devices will always have the problem that they will either wake the subject up, or not induce.
I thnk they have to work with your own capability to be effective.

You're right... at the level of technology we have now. There are probably researchers now who are investigating the location of the 'lucidity centre' of the brain, and how to activate it.