Thread: Dream Purists

It's not like your "random and new" dreams go away once you start LDing. They're still there, you don't have to go for an LD every night.

Originally Posted by HakktHazard

It's not like your "random and new" dreams go away once you start LDing. They're still there, you don't have to go for an LD every night.

Isn't life random and new enough?

Anyway, some people say that they like the reactions that sprout from unawareness. Lucidity takes out the surprise for them, or maybe the happiness.

"If I had a dream I won the lottery, I wouldn't want to realize it's a dream!"

... Why not? You'll just wake up disappointed. You could've used that dream time for (insert fun goal here). Then, there's

"Dreams are a product of the subconscious. They are meant to tell us things."

Not only would lucid dreaming require you to pay attention to all of your dreams (more than a non-lucid dreamer does, no doubt!), but the subconscious can say whatever it wants, lucid or not.

Being lucid doesn't necessarily mean you suddenly can control your dreams. Heck, in some lucids you can't even control yourself! Lucidity just means you know that you're dreaming. What you do after you attain that knowledge is up to you.

The ones who refuse to lucid dream are either closed-minded, ignorant, or uninterested. Most are the third kind. The first two would probably be for extreme "dream purists," I suppose.

I personally think it's due to laziness. Like Drasnus said, if someone invented a lucid dream headset more people would do it. Oh, and then there's the issue of 'gotta have it now'. Today's society is obsessed with getting what they want as quickly as possible. If someone doesn't lucid dream right away they just give up and move onto something more instantly gratifying.

I think there are several reasons for this.

Lucid Dreaming has picked up a tainted name in many circles. Many religions and faiths look at it as an occult practice. Its embrace by the "New Age" culture has made it seem like a mystical practice even outside of religious circles.

Lucid Dreaming is almost impossible to believe until it is experienced. I knew it was real because I experienced it as a child, but few have that advantage. Until you know the truth of it through experience, it is a pretty fantastic thing to grasp.

Lucid Dreaming is a discipline. Here I agree with much of what's already been said. It is no different than learning to play an instrument or learn to draw - it takes patience and dedication to accomplish, and a person has to be willing to live with failure for a while in most cases before finding success.

Finally, there are people who just don't have happy dream lives and are worried about what might happen if they "screw it up" any more than it already is. My wifeling is unfortunately in this category.

I've known someone in high school who was really afraid of lucid dreaming because he felt it was unnatural to have so much power anywhere.

Others at that high school thought only "witches" could lucid dream, that demons would possess them as they slept, or that they wouldn't be able to wake up. I think all of that could be categorized as fear of the unknown.

Originally Posted by orange_entity

I've known someone in high school who was really afraid of lucid dreaming because he felt it was unnatural to have so much power anywhere.

Others at that high school thought only "witches" could lucid dream, that demons would possess them as they slept, or that they wouldn't be able to wake up. I think all of that could be categorized as fear of the unknown.

Jeeze! Where the hell did you go to school?

Originally Posted by WhiteVeins

Jeeze! Where the hell did you go to school?

Agreed. Demons? Witches? One word: wow

Here's another theory. Maybe some people are just plain, not interested in LDing.