Thread: Famous LDers, for example Dalí, Tesla, Steven King, Richard Feynman...

Yupp - been just stumbling over a list of ten famous LDers, and we have exquisite company indeed:
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I'm a huge Feynman fan - here's the bit about him:

#6 Richard Feynman
The famous American physicist, Richard Feynman, declared his aptitude for lucid dreaming in his national bestseller, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! He dedicated an entire chapter to his experiments with lucid dreaming where he gave a detailed account of how he influenced his dreams:

"I also noticed that as you go to sleep the ideas continue, but they become less and less logically interconnected. You don't notice that they're not logically connected until you ask yourself, "What made me think of that?" and you try to work your way back, and often you can't remember what the hell did make you think of that! So you get every illusion of logical connection, but the actual fact is that the thoughts become more and more cockeyed until they're completely disjointed, and beyond that, you fall asleep.

"I kept practicing this watching myself as I went to sleep. One night, while I was having a dream, I realized I was observing myself in the dream. I had gotten all the way down, into the sleep itself!

"I discovered that I could turn around, and walk back through the train -- I could control the direction of my dream. I get back to the car with the special window, and I see three old guys playing violins -- but they turned back into girls! So I could modify the direction of my dream, but not perfectly."

Besides him, they mention further famous physicists Nicola Tesla and Einstein, being unsure about the latter, though.

Unsurprisingly movie directors Wachowski brothers (Matrix), Richard Linklater (Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, great movie), Chris Nolan (Inception, Memonto) and James Cameron (Avatar) are on the list as well. Then there's musician Richard D James of Aphex Twin, author Steven King and Salvador Dalí.


Wouldn't it be nice to find more and more people to mention in here?
Go ahead!