How many people in your waking life have you gotten into LDing? I've had 5 people other than myself have Lucid Dreams just from talking obsessively about it. I've got another one under my wing x3
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How many people in your waking life have you gotten into LDing? I've had 5 people other than myself have Lucid Dreams just from talking obsessively about it. I've got another one under my wing x3
Not a single person. I've told everyone I felt comfortable telling about it, and none seem to believe it's possible and/or don't care. I'd tried to convince them time and time again, but it is absolutely no use.
My friend for example, tries to tell me that it is impossible because of the fact we don't think logically in dreams and don't follow our habits in dreams and therefore will never be able to tell ourselves we are dreaming, until the actual dream is over. Because of his skepticism and stubbornness, he refuses to even try to consistent reality check for an extended period of time. I'll never be able to prove him wrong or show him the truth until, maybe, one day when he has a spontaneous lucid dream on his own.
..and that is only one person : (
You've gotta tell them that it's scientifically proven. I'm good at getting people into certain things. >;3Quote:
Originally Posted by Casualtie
Believe me I've tried and the few people who are easily swayed about stuff like this, simply don't care. Although my friend' mom was pretty ecstatic about it when I told her. People always give me a weird look when I start to talk about it so I usually just keep it to myself.
..Their loss.
Actually I tried once on my friend. Only to find out that he can lucid dream everynight. He basically has no choice. He is aware in every dream he is dreaming... He inspired me. Now I want to become a master like he has!
I told it to other people. They only listen. No one wants to try it....
I've told quite a few people in my life. The responses range from patient bemusement to horror.
One cousin had a lucid the first night after I told him about it. He seemed to lose interest really quick though.
Another friend in prison started doing it and didn't like it at all.
Ah well... it takes all kinds. It's just funny that most of us here would do backflips through suspended flaming tires to have lucids because we think they're so incredible.
Ya either get it or you don't, I guess.
I usually get a response that basically implies "that's nice, I don't care."
::shrugs:: Their loss I suppose, more for the rest of us lol.
My Sister, that's about it really. My friends find it cool that I do it, but probably wouldn't be interested in doing it themselves.
I think I can say 3. One friend in college who had heard about it, and is interested but hasnt gotten around to gettin serious about it. I told him I was gettin serious and hes really interested in hearing my results. one I told about over my spring break while I was visiting him in school and after telling him about it, we took a nap to see if we could get some and he got one and he has been gettin into it since then. Another I told about and seemed really interested but i dont know how much hes been tryin actually.
I have a friend who i told (while drunk which may have been the main reason) and was kind of weirded out...but i will chisel him down
I'm having trouble convincing them that they have multiple dreams per night.
"I only have a dream, like, once a month!"
Thats what I get.Quote:
Originally posted by Kamikaze
I usually get a response that basically implies "that's nice, I don't care."
::shrugs:: Their loss I suppose, more for the rest of us lol.
Me: "So this LD stuff you can control your dreams and its like real life blah blah..."
Person: "Yeah, thats nice..."
They ask no further questions. Not one "How is it done?" not one "Is it really that cool?". Nothing.. Poor saps. I will kick their asses in a LD once!
I have told hmmm...about everyone i know lol, everyone jokes around and always asks me if im dreaming.
I have led 4 people to having at least one lucid dream.
And i have had ....3 people join? None of them really ever log in though, and they have like 4 posts Lol.
I have only told one person that was like "omg wtf, i have been trying to have them forever!"
She has had one, but she isnt a member of the forum, we talk about Lucid dreaming all the time
I did a paper on Lucid dreaming and a friend told me he had dreams like that. He said he had them about once a month. He said they were cool, but didn't seem to appreciate them much. I said I was trying to have lucid dreams and my other friend acted like it would be pointless to try to learn it. I don't get how people can not think that would be awesome to have control of you dreams.
Hmm....for me, 3 people.
My mom, dad, and my best friend that just happends to have an account of this site. Her username is Angelhorns, and even though she has only 4 posts to her name, we can talk about LDs for hours at a time. Another friend of mine is still showing a timid intrest in it, but she thinks that it won't be accepted in her household. All my other friends saw me reading ETWOLD at one time or another, and asked about it. I told them, and all I got out of them was an "Oh, ok...".
Poor, misguided souls... They'll never know the true joys of LDs.
Only my friend Wesley is interested, but he hasn't had any yet. I think he's losing interest though. The other people I tell are like,"Yeah, ok, whatever..." They don't get just how cool it is. I think it's one of those things you have to experience to believe.
Yup, I raved about it to about 4 of my friends, they were obsessed for about a week and then lost interest. My sister on the other hand has an interest level which is slowly and steadily increasing but she hasn't really put much of an effort in yet. About half the people I tell look at me in horror and the other half are 'oh that's nice...'. I definitely agree with lunalight. It's very much experience to believe although sometimes it's hard to get that first experience...
I mentioned Astral Projection to an online friend and we shifted into Lucid Dreaming. So I guess I've got 1 recruit ^_^
Ive told a few of my friends. I believe three of them have had lds since.
I recently got 1 good friend of mine into LDing. He was interrested in it before but now he's a little more Focussed on it.
I've tried ALOT to get people into LDing, but I've constantly failed. They're just stupidly unintrested, except for my mom who's gained some interest, but haven't really put any effort into it yet.
i've gotten 3 of my friends into lucid dreaming and the two have had a couple lucids and the ones recall just started to get better and she had a 2 second long lucid. i feel happy to tell people about lucid because i found it out myself and it took me a while.
I mention it to my friends online all the time and they always joke around about it but I dont think any of them have really had one. I was also amazed to find my brother reading my lucid dreaming books nonstop night after night. He usually reads quantum physics books all the time and wouldnt even touch my OBE or remote viewing books, plus he says he doesnt even remember his dreams. He was just amazed by the whole concept. So basically I've gotten some people interested but no LDs from them yet.
I've told numerous people, all have asked questions about it, none have ever tried at all, and they don't find it at all that interesting maybe for a secound acouple of my intellectualy friends found it cool but there interests diminished within secounds, I did tell one friend who says he has them all the time every morning but he'll say anything and is defintly lieing, I know him pretty well.
One friend totaly was weirded out by it she said something like "no normal person has lucid dreams" and when I brought them up a few times in the future she yelled at me.
Also after promising my friend rescently that lucid dreaming would give him flying and sex he still didn't seem interested.
My theorie is that people think dreams are fuzzy things and they don't think of them as experience
I got my sister really interested. She's going out to buy some books on it so she can practice talking to hot guys haha. My friends on the other hand would be more intersted if I was telling them in complete detail what the last snot I pulled out of my nose looked like.
I quite often find myself raving on about lucid dreaming and just dreams and sleep to practically everyone I speak to, just because I find it incredibly sad that so many people don't even remember any of their dreams, let alone even know about lucid-dreaming. A lot of people react like, 'Oh that's interesting, but I couldn't do that, I never have any dreams.' Which usually leads me into a long explanation of the sleep-cycle and how people always have several dreams every single night.
I've never had anyone get really freaked out by it, although I've had a few funny looks here and there (but I'm used to that...) I can think of one close friend who I told about LDing who was quite interested and had an spontaneous LD that night, presumably because of our conversation, but he never seemed interesting in following it up and trying to have more.
I've recently become friends with someone who's into slightly esoteric stuff and when I started explaining LDing he got very excited and said he'd had a few random LDs but never realised you could actually train yourself to have them. So I've been explaining the various techniques to him. It would be great to have someone in my life who LDs, I don't actually know anyone who does it regularly, so I have no one to really talk to about it. It always makes me sad when I'm trying to explain a really, really vivid LD to someone, going into great detail about the colours and the texture of the grass and being able to see every line and detail of your hands, and they just look at you blankly and you can tell they're thinking... 'But it's just a dream...' Words aren't enough to express an LD like that. I wake up from those kinds of LDs in sheer awe at the infinite universe locked inside my mind. It makes me sad that people around me don't experience that too.