Thread: Have you ever seen someone RC in real life?

Never.. when someone sees me do it and i tell them why, they just say i'm crazy and that controling your dreams and making them as vivid and lucid as real life is impossible and i should get a proper hobby (as if i need more hobbies anyways)

Originally Posted by Leo96

Never.. when someone sees me do it and i tell them why, they just say i'm crazy and that controling your dreams and making them as vivid and lucid as real life is impossible and i should get a proper hobby (as if i need more hobbies anyways)

It's one of the best hobbies in the world because you can do anything in a lucid dream. These crazy people don't know what they're missing out on!

Originally Posted by Leo96

Never.. when someone sees me do it and i tell them why, they just say i'm crazy and that controling your dreams and making them as vivid and lucid as real life is impossible and i should get a proper hobby (as if i need more hobbies anyways)

People need to stfu then. Why would you tell someone to get an other hobby?

Originally Posted by DreamscapeGoat

I haven't seen anybody else do it, but I do RCs during school, which merits me a lot of what the hell is wrong with you looks.

Don´t you have a close friend who ticks similarly to you?
When I did the Castaneda-first steps - I did it with a friend - both getting scared away after our first success(es) - but anyway - great to have somebody to talk with.
Of course you do have - on here - but we didn´t have internet back then - but with real life friends - should be even better.

Originally Posted by DreamscapeGoat

I only do the nose-pinch and hand RCs in public. It's still a bit odd to see someone intently staring at their hands while trying to push a finger through your palm.

I also do - and I do as if something was sticking somewhere - cleaning a fingernail or do whatever - fiddle a piece of skin from somewhere imaginary.
And what I wrote above is not so bad also I think - do the nose with a handkerchief and pretend to blow into it - besides the RC - as if it had been blocked.

I do not enough RCs unfortunately - but I think, I can do them without even another LDer noticing.

Originally Posted by LucidHealer

Maybe this is how lucid dreamers are supposed to identify themselves. RCing is our flag. Let it wave!

Yeah - like the Freemasons having finger-signs to recognize each other!!
I mean - in Germany - the lowest percentage with random people is 26 % - that´s a tad more than every fourth person!
Lets say half of them are "active" about it and RC - that´s every 8th.
On a compartment of underground-trains - with 40 people - there should be 5 present - make it one person - you might observe exactly this one doing something.
To meet somebody or observe somebody doing something "suspicious" - you could always catch their eyes and do something similar.
Maybe like that you can find like-minded people.

Originally Posted by StephL

Don´t you have a close friend who ticks similarly to you?

Alas, no - I've yet to find someone else who wants to lucid dream.

However, I shall not give up. As LucidHealer said, let the LD flag fly.

Originally Posted by LouaiB

lets all wear shirts which say "I'm a LD" , LD not Lucid Dreamer so only real LDers would understand that. what do you think? I wouldn't feel lonely about LDing anymore

Great idea!

Once I met a cute young lady with an OM symbol tattooed on the palm of her left hand. (I have a RC tattoo with a original symbol tattooed on the back of my right hand.)
I said to her, "Wait, you have an Om symbol tattooed on your palm? Cool. You know, you can look at your hands and see if you are dreaming."
She said, "That's why I got this tattoo. For reality checks."
"Wow! You're a hardcore lucid dreamer, huh?"
She laughed and said, "and what's that tattoo on your hand for?"
"Reality checks, of course."
Then, we asked each other if we were dreaming.
We had a cool conversation about lucid dreaming, exchanged phone numbers, and I never saw her again. HAHA

Yes, I saw one of my friends clutching his nose and then pushing his fingers through a wall once, didn't have to ask him why lol. I never RC in public.

He's the only one I know who has heard of LDing.

Originally Posted by Leo96

Never.. when someone sees me do it and i tell them why, they just say i'm crazy and that controling your dreams and making them as vivid and lucid as real life is impossible and i should get a proper hobby (as if i need more hobbies anyways)

I believe one reason why a lot of people feel uneasy about lucid dreaming is because, I guess, in many ways it might sound similar to some form of drug-induced experience.
It might sound a bit trippy and eerie to hear about events like talking to your subconscious, flying, transforming into different objects, teleporting etc.
A lot of people are too restricted to waking life to really understand the fascinating wonders of lucid dreaming.