Thread: Do you keep your interest in lucid dreaming a secret from others?

Originally Posted by mahoogie

In school, my English teacher gave everyone in the class the opportunity to talk about anything you wanted to for a minute to practice public speaking. So, what did I talk about? Lucid dreaming of course. I went and stood in front of the class of 30+ people, explaining the very basics of LDing, such as being able to do anything you want, yada yada yada etc. The reaction I got from the class was.. nonexistent. I was surprised. No one said ANYTHING. No "wtf"s, no "cool"s, not anything. They just sat there in total silence.

That was a couple months ago and to this day no one has ever brought the subject back up to me. I'm just appalled how some people can literally show no interest in such an amazing thing like lucid dreaming.. Oh well... I guess one of the cool things about lucid dreaming is that its so esoteric, but I hope for a day that humans will be more open minded to more things.

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I am actually quite ambivalent about this.
I do want to tell other people about it and make it more appreciated and well-known, but at the same time I kind of like how it is such an underground activity that only we seem to know about.
I have always been a sucker for underground and unusual stuff, and I feel like part of the charm about lucid dreaming might be lost if it becomes too mainstream.

Originally Posted by Laurelindo

I am actually quite ambivalent about this.
I do want to tell other people about it and make it more appreciated and well-known, but at the same time I kind of like how it is such an underground activity that only we seem to know about.
I have always been a sucker for underground and unusual stuff, and I feel like part of the charm about lucid dreaming might be lost if it becomes too mainstream.

Yeah, same here. Of course, lucid dreaming will still be awesome even if a lot of people know about it; but I love being the only one in, like, probably my whole school who knows about this secret, underground gold mine except for the people whom I've told about it.

Still, I wish most people didn't have such irksome reactions about it when they do hear about it and I wanna get some of my friends in on it. The more the merrier in the circle of friendship!