Originally Posted by
AstralVagabond
Huh. Now I really don't want lucid dreaming to become mainstream. :P You bring up an excellent point, OP. Although, if lucid dreaming machines become a thing by the arrival of the next generation and it isn't illegal or a social taboo and instead becomes the new, awesome thing in the media's eyes, imagine how we can brag to our kids! That we were among the very few people who, in our generation, practiced lucid dreaming before there were any effective and affordable machines for it and when barely anyone knew about it! Well... I'm speaking for the young people here, I guess. The older crowd would take that role as the cool grandparents, I suppose.
Or, you know, we'd become the grumbling, old coots hating on newfangled machinery and gasping, "In my day, we didn't have machines that could make us lucid automatically! We had to work for every lucid dream we got and no-one we knew even cared about it!" And the kids would wait for us to leave them alone and realise that they don't care about how much more character we had about this while simultaneously wondering how we could have survived in a time without such basic technology. You know, it'd be the computers of the next generation. Could go either way. :cheeky:
Well, before they acquired the technology to directly monitor other people's dreams or lucidity levels, officials could just ban the machines that induce lucid dreaming automatically, making it harder for anyone to develop a lucid dreaming habit. If such technology had become widely available then people would become dependent on it and unwilling to take the long route and try it any other way. You know, like people are with books and no Internet today! Or... like people are with lucid dreaming today! :chuckle: