I hate this. I can talk with my friends and family fairly normally about everyday dreams. But whenever I start to harp on things like the induction techniques or my dream guide or something, they start to give me funny looks like I am seven years old and making up stories. The reason this really sucks is if you had a friend that you could talk openly about lucid dreaming in real life, you might have a lot more lucids because you could swap techniques and get each other motivated.
I actually have two friends that are relatively open to this. My friend S keeps a dream journal and uses his dreams as inspiration for a comic strip that he writes. He also once eluded to being a member of some spiritual community. (Probably similar to Dreamviews.) So I can be fully open about what I am doing.
My friend C is a very spiritual person, (she's all into meditation and astral projecting) and she often shares her dreams with me. On the days we meet, often the first thing we do is swap stories all of our dreams. C likes to interpret my dreams and often provides an overly-detailed explanation of why I dreamed about x y and z.
The problem is neither of them actually practice lucid dreaming. My friend S has admitted to LDing here and there, and C actually goes the other way, she tries not to become lucid as she thinks it distorts the meaning of her dreams. But with both these people I can be open about my lucid dreams and not get weird looks.
Now if I found two people who I can be open about lucid dreaming with, they must be everywhere. And if not, like gab said, there is always the members of this community.
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