Have you ever seen someone RC in real life?

[jammerro]

The question is really simple. Have you ever seen someone reality check in real life? If you have please elaborate Personally I have been trying to spot if anyone would be rcing, but until now I haven't seen anyone do it..

[AstralMango]

I'd love to see someone RC in real life, just to confirm that there are lucid dreamers that live in my area. It'd be nice to know a LDer in real life. <:

[Fall]

Nope...lucid dreaming seems weird to most of the people out there but not me

[JoannaB]

No, I have not, but I have also had the thought that it would be cool. I should seriously start looking. Also maybe I should start being more obvious in my own RCs in public to allow someone else to spot me.

[Laurelindo]

No, everyone around me seems on a hurry and are so absent-minded that they startle when someone comes up behind them, and almost everyone seems very uncomfortable when I mention lucid dreaming to them. I honestly doubt that around 17% of the world population experiences lucid dreams more than once per month - 17‰ sounds more likely. I do know that a few of my family members and relatives at least know about lucid dreaming and are mildly fascinated by them, though.

[LouaiB]

No, everyone around me seems on a hurry and are so absent-minded that they startle when someone comes up behind them, and almost everyone seems very uncomfortable when I mention lucid dreaming to them. I honestly doubt that around 17% of the world population experiences lucid dreams more than once per month - 17‰ sounds more likely. I do know that a few of my family members and relatives at least know about lucid dreaming and are mildly fascinated by them, though. That sounds just like my story! A few of my freinds do lucid dream once a month, and they are not LDers, and my brother really liked it when I told him about LDing 3 months ago. we both started practicing together at that time, and he has had so far 5 LDs, 1 more than me, and I'm doing all the practicing!! Anyway, in my culture (Islam), people tend to use dreams for precognition, so they really have another opinion about LDing (they won't accept it, and always think it's useless) , so no, no one ever does rcs in my non-LDers world. I feel so lonely Apparently he has no interest in flying around and all that awesome stuff... I have no idea why. No one knows the potentials of LDing. They either think it feels like a regular dream,thus very dull and any experience is dull, or they just don't believe that LDing is a way to living great fantasies, because its too of a simple and available way and everyone would be doing it. If you read "Discovering the world of Lucid Dreaming" book, you would known that I mean schema that these people have(chapter 5). Its up to us LDers to the message of LDing to the world! How? I don't know 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

[Laurelindo]

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 I believe a printing like "Lucidity Forever" should work just as well; most ignorant people would probably just believe that it was some new age hippie thing like "seeing the light", and only real lucid dreamers would truly understand the meaning of the word "lucidity".

[VagalTone]

Nice ideas Laurelindo and LouaiB ! Interesting twist on this already interesting thread. The only thing, and i know this for sure, is that there are many lucid dreamers who don´t call it lucid dreaming, or lucidity. So, they have no way to figure out what that means in the shirt. Once i began talking with a friend only to find out he had had lucid nightmares since his childhood, and he still has, but he didn´t know anything about the terminology and techniques of LDing. He told me that he found strange that people don´t remember their dreams. I just recommended him to visit DV ! It´s very very nice to find a LDing mate. So, in short, this shirt idea is a good one, but you may miss many many naturals if you just use cryptic expressions. We must really be bold and write « Lucid dreaming » and then of course explain it to people

[LouaiB]

Nice ideas Laurelindo and LouaiB ! Interesting twist on this already interesting thread. The only thing, and i know this for sure, is that there are many lucid dreamers who don´t call it lucid dreaming, or lucidity. So, they have no way to figure out what that means in the shirt. Once i began talking with a friend only to find out he had had lucid nightmares since his childhood, and he still has, but he didn´t know anything about the terminology and techniques of LDing. He told me that he found strange that people don´t remember their dreams. I just recommended him to visit DV ! It´s very very nice to find a LDing mate. So, in short, this shirt idea is a good one, but you may miss many many naturals if you just use cryptic expressions. We must really be bold and write « Lucid dreaming » and then of course explain it to people There are a lot of naturals I know. I have 2 of my friends that are natural LDers, but it's not interesting to talk with them about LDing, unless they actually practice it intentionally . They are like: "Yeah it's awesom when you know you're dreaming. I really don't care about doing techniques, though" then I tell them :"techniques will increase your LDs, and make them longer and more real!", then they reply:"Meh, don't really care" It's not like they're even LDers!! That sucks. Only LDers who are really into LDing are interesting companions. I wish I had one. I only have my brother, and he's lame lol

[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)

[AstralMango]

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!

[Athylus]

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?

[StephL]

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. 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. 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.

[DreamscapeGoat]

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.

[Joram]

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!

[Baron Samedi]

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

[13WAR08T]

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.

[Laurelindo]

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.

[JoannaB]

One of my mother's friends told me that she is an occasional lucid dreamer, so I met one person who does LD.

[StephL]

Cool idea with the avatar, if this your RC, jammerro! I never saw somebody do one of the more open RCs like nose-plug or really intensely, not somehow camouflaged hand-looking. But I think, I can - or at least could do these inconspicuous as well - take a handkerchief and pretend a cold, maybe..? The thing with awareness to the surroundings - well - not a lot to witness, that is correct Laurelindo. Once you look yourself for it - not many seem to have it switched on in normal life. That does not mean, though, that it is never switched on. Some people open up less easily than others while commuting or else in public - for various reasons. But I know people who lucid dream - some just like that - esp. only, when they were children - and some have learnt it. A friend of mine per Castaneda - but in the end, that brought her off it - under the assumption - which the books plant - that it would be dangerous. Another friend learned it from other books - he also meditates. Then there are quite many people, who have heard of it - and many, who are interested, when I told them lately. Including my darts-buddies. Not one person has reacted even with disbelief - let alone antagonism. Probably I am a lucky person, with whom I am in contact. Maybe it´s Germany.. German Wikipedia: Studies differ concerning the percentage of a population to lucid dream between 26 % and 82%. Depending on the group asked - the below study is prone to high results, simply because of general interest almost being preprogrammed - or more random samples. Also percentage does depend on the narrowness in definition of LD. One study from 2004 with 444 German psychology students has also studied frequency: Never 18,0 % Less than once a year 7,5 % Once a year 10,9 % Around 2 - 4 per year 26,7 % Once a month 16,2 % Around 2- 3 a month 10,3 % Once a week 8,0 % More than once a week 2,5 % Soo - don´t be pessimistic!! wink.gif

[LucidHealer]

Let's be real. Don't we sort of look both ways before RCing in public? lol

[JoannaB]

Let's be real. Don't we sort of look both ways before RCing in public? lol Nod, so that's why I am suggesting, let's start doing more obvious RCs ourselves now in public - I think I shall. I am past the age where I care too much if strangers will think that I am crazy, so what if they do?

[LucidHealer]

Nod, so that's why I am suggesting, let's start doing more obvious RCs ourselves now in public - I think I shall. I am past the age where I care too much if strangers will think that I am crazy, so what if they do? Maybe this is how lucid dreamers are supposed to identify themselves. RCing is our flag. Let it wave!

[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.

[AnotherDreamer]

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. I do RCs in public and I get a lot of weird looks too you're not alone in this!