Some people are just not ready. |
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I should have learned by now...I really should keep my mouth shut about my lucid dreaming. Last night i had my longest, best LD ever. I even got to walk on water...been going through various miracles of Jesus...a personal goal of mine. But whenever I share with family and friends they think I am retreating from real life, more interested in fantasy than real things, and "everyone" thinks I should quit. They are very worried about me. Sorry...I know we've threaded this topic before but I have to vent somewhere. There are none so blind as they that will not see. |
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Some people are just not ready. |
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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. |
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ya it's a shame you have no lucid dreaming friends or family. Some people just aren't lenient enough to accept another world-view. I also angers me when people assume that an experience is less worthy for having been experienced in a dream. |
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Maybe don't tell them? |
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Lucid dreams make your dreams come true!!
My family, they are starting to get tired to hear it. |
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Thanks for the verbal support. Unless I find a friend who can LD i am just not going to share, except here. Kinda sad it's this way. |
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Look bro if you ever want to talk about something lucid dream related you can talk to me about it |
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I am more interested in fantasy than real things, I see it as one of my better traits |
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Whenever I mention lucid dreaming to someone I feel like Morpheus from The Matrix when he speaks to Neo in the Construct. |
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Last edited by Laurelindo; 02-18-2014 at 03:50 PM.
Stephen LaBerge's Full Seminar in Russia, 1998
Стивен Лаберж - Осознанные сновидения. Весь семинар 1998.
I'm unsure why you would feel the need to share such personal experiences with people who could so easily harm you with rejection of those experiences. They're only human, they can't accept all of you so wholly and utterly, especially something so deeply introspective of your self. |
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The thing about lucid dreaming is that it is such a fantastic skill to have that you eagerly want everyone to know about it, because it's something that is too precious to miss out on. |
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Last edited by Laurelindo; 02-18-2014 at 04:36 PM.
Stephen LaBerge's Full Seminar in Russia, 1998
Стивен Лаберж - Осознанные сновидения. Весь семинар 1998.
You have my sympathy and understanding. I get the distinct feeling that lucid dreaming - or dreaming in general - is not to be discussed in civilized conversation. I do tell my dad - specifically to mess with his head because he doesn't believe in lucid dreams but is a DC in a lot of my dreams - but I have given up telling anyone else IRL. Except for my new LD partner, my eldest daughter who has taken up the same hobby and knows exactly what I'm talking about. |
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Best to keep the enthusiasm on the forums, someone who's never had a LD, or has typical bad/nonexistent dream recall just can't comprehend the joy of an LD or a high vividness / long fun/awesome non-lucid dream. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I sometimes try to kindle other people's interest for lucid dreaming in a more discrete way, by going over to the library at my university and sitting down somewhere so that people can notice me, and then reading "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" (I love reading that book anyway, so what the hell) and making sure to hold it so that people can see the cover. |
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Stephen LaBerge's Full Seminar in Russia, 1998
Стивен Лаберж - Осознанные сновидения. Весь семинар 1998.
I try to give off lucid dreaming signs all the time, and I've only ever once been approached. |
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It seems like there has to be a big interest in dreams before learning about it in order to spark enough interest. Someone like me that has always had long vivid dreams, or people that have always loved dreams. If you don't have dreams often, then LDing would sound as crazy (not trying to be judgemental) as AP. If you are someone that is always in the dreamworld, the fact that one could realize that he was dreaming doesn't seem far fetched. |
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Stephen LaBerge's Full Seminar in Russia, 1998
Стивен Лаберж - Осознанные сновидения. Весь семинар 1998.
Acronym List - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views |
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You see, when i have talked to friends about LD'ing they were curious to know more. |
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Since 7/02/2014
LD's: 0
Goals: Talk to a DC | Go lucid again | Look at what I'm wearing | Observe surroundings | Meet Dream Guide
Discovered Dream Signs: Strange Locations (I think)
This is the part where I feel that we make our disagreements. Whatever you think is wonderful, doesn't mean that it should apply for anyone else. Do you not have the kind of understanding that other's lives may in fact be drastically different from yours? Even if I have no faith in God, I can understand that a Christian may feel the most intense comfort from their prayer, and as such I won't try to shove my personal beliefs onto them in some insistence that I believe absolutely everyone would be happier if they experience what I experience. The kind of pushing "I'm sure you will be better off if you follow my way" is the same trap that obnoxious religious recruiters and street preachers use. Just because you don't have a reason not to love lucid dreams doesn't mean that there isn't one that exists for other people. |
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My point was that I cannot see any concrete reason for anyone to have anything against lucid dreaming if they were to start experiencing it themselves; |
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Stephen LaBerge's Full Seminar in Russia, 1998
Стивен Лаберж - Осознанные сновидения. Весь семинар 1998.
I see absolutely no problem here. It's certainly not something you can compare to shoving your ideology down someone else throat. |
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Boy, that escalated quickly. |
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