So while reading another person's thread, I found he said something that I have been thinking about for a while. If it wasn't for the fact that I've had LDs before learning about them and what they were, I would have put it up there with all the other things that were not real, IE telekinesis, ghosts, OOBEs, psychics, bigfoot, and so on. My main reasons for not believing in these things is that IF they were in fact real, then wouldn't there be a lot of science behind it and scientists researching it? I mean really, if a person really could read another's mind or if someone really could move objects by will alone, wouldn't that be some big news? Like Phenomenon with John Travolta, he really could do this and there was all kinds of scientists wanting his brain. But unlike Phenomenon, there is no credible evidence for any of these things.

That's where LDing comes in: "waking up in your dream? That's called being awake!" would have been something close to a typical response when telling someone about LDing. How can we be AWAKE while ASLEEP? It's a contradiction, yet most of you who are reading this can accomplish just that, as well as myself (kind of makes you feel like a superhero doesn't it?). YET, there is very little research on it, just LaBerge and his team of whatever-nauts, which I'm sure have little standing in the world of scientists. You tell people about your LDs and they look at you like you told them you were abducted by aliens and anal-probed.

Point being, if Lucid dreaming is really possible, then what about all the other sketchy things that have little to no research or scientific backing? I've seen youtube videos of people supposedly moving objects with their minds, we've all probably seen bigfoot videos, and hell, there are a crap load of psychics who claim they can tell the future.

I've always been a straight up realist, if I can't touch it or experience it then it's BS, so LDing has really got me rethinking things (except religion, I will eternally be agnostic).

What do you guys think?