Thread: What does Your family Think Of LDs

my parents follow the "nothing more boring than other's dreams " line of thinking, so they're just... bored.

My mum just changes the subject

I just can't understand why when i tell people about lucid dreaming they just shrug it off with an "oh" or somepeople will completely misunderstand what a lucid dream is.
"yeah, i was in a dream and i was running away and chose were i went"...... :/
It's quite frustrating to see people uninterested by such a cool thing, but at the same time makes me feel "special".

My immediate family and my dad's side of the family find it facinating, but my mom's side of the family thinks its weird. Lol I love talking about it with them! It's sooo funny to see their reactions.

I'm an only child living with my Mother and Grandparents.

Mother, She just refuses to take any intrest in it- But she did think some of the Reality Checks were pretty funny.

Grandad, He is a strongly religious man- So he remains certain that by doing this in 30 or 40 years i will have an epileptic seisure and screw up my life.

Nana, She is a Reverend- But what suprised me was that she didn't think it was the work of the devil- She contented herself with snapping at me about how she knew all about Lucidity. I just rolled my eyes...

Weird. I get similar reactions when i try to tell people about lucids. Most people don't believe that its possible. I showed one friend this website and the forums. He thinks the whole thing is made up and that people only lie about lucid dreams.

My wife kind of thinks I am an idiot for putting energy into it, and doesn't really want to hear about my dreams. However, she can lucid dream herself!
My good friend has had lucid dreams since he was a child, and doesn't mind talking about it from time to time. Another good friend is vaguely interested, but not enough to try it himself.
My mom will listen somewhat to talk of lucid dreams, but not enough to try it herself, and would probably prefer to discuss another topic. My sister is about the same, but probably somewhat less interested than my mom.

Well, I learned from my cousin, and my mom claims to of had a lucid dream before!

Yea, most of my family knows. I can't really do it yet though, so whatever. I put effort into it in cycles and I have yet to get much of it. That's ok, It'll come eventually. Anyway, I told my brother about it one day while we were on a camping trip, he was like, "Oh well I do that almost every night"

That elicited a big from me xD. My father is interested in it and my mother has expressed mild interest. Although my father is interested in pretty much everything like that, from energy to lucid dreams.

I told my mother once... she just looked at me sadly and indulgently as if I just told her "I can see angels. I really can, ya know. Really."

The one friend who I thought would believe me thought I was being gullible. I told him about this site and how however many thousands of people on this site can't be wrong, but he told me that you were all probably scitzo(spelling?) insane devil worshippers.

Yeah. I don't think I'm going to tell anyone else.

I told my fam I was learning to lucid dream. they were all cool with it. thats my family though, really laid back unless theres cause not to be.

friends thinks its a cool concept, but don't care enough to look into it or try.

im with the others in this thread. I don't see how you can not be interested in lucid dreaming. although it took me having one to really get hooked.

My step mom is skeptical and spouts all this bs when she doesnt know what shes talking about, but for the most part they are good about it.

I honestly can't see why more people don't try it and explore it. Especially those who can do it at will. Almost everyone at one point has said "I wish I had..." and with LDing, you can have it. I mean, last night I was at a festival with the most beautiful looking woman on Earth learning how to play the guitar. When I told my fiancee this evening and she said "so? it's just a dream!" She gets it but can't do it. She also accepts it's a place I can do things I can't do here. Like teleport...

On the contrary to most of the responses, my mum is jealous and keeps asking me to train her to lucid like me but I guess she doesnt count, she holds meditation/spiritual healing seminars and channels spirits (allows them to talk through her). If you think LDs are creepy, try listening to an intergalactic being or guardian angel talk through your mum. Kinda cool though, they got a lot of interesting things to say. I asked if they could give me a lucid dream that night last time she channelled for me and they went all ambiguous with their answer. Something about the time will come when im ready. f*****g good-for-nothing angels!

My mother is fascinated and my dad listens politely. My wife and my stepdaughter both look at me like I have sprouted a second head. I found out why the other day, however, Turns out they both LD naturally regularly and think it's no big deal. I hate those two.

i told my dad a couple of weeks ago. he gave me a weird look and then said "what if you later can't tell the difference between the real world and the dream world?" well, not the reaction i was hoping for but he always sees the cons in everything.. not that it would ever happend but still..

I told my sister just the other day.. she first thought i was crazy, and that it was impossible, because she always wakes up when she understands that she's dreaming.
then i explained to her that there are many techniques and ways of keeping that dream while you get aware of the fact that it's just a dream. and when i started to explain all the cool stuff you can do, she got really in to it..

my three best friends have known of this interest of mine for quite a while now, and two of them are trying to have LD's, but are way too lazy to do any real effort (keep journals, practice techniques, etc.)

(sry for the spelling, im from sweden)

UM I haven't talked to my family about it, but i live with my dad and i usually share my interests with im so I'm sure it will come up and he'll probably be interested to hear

Originally Posted by TheFinalCut

On the contrary to most of the responses, my mum is jealous and keeps asking me to train her to lucid like me but I guess she doesnt count, she holds meditation/spiritual healing seminars and channels spirits (allows them to talk through her). If you think LDs are creepy, try listening to an intergalactic being or guardian angel talk through your mum. Kinda cool though, they got a lot of interesting things to say. I asked if they could give me a lucid dream that night last time she channelled for me and they went all ambiguous with their answer. Something about the time will come when im ready. f*****g good-for-nothing angels!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHH
i SO know what you're talking about
(though luckily it wasn't my mum, just some family friends)

... intergalactic beings kind of sucked at answering, as far as i remember

My family are vaguely interested, but none of them ever have asked me for information about how to lucid dream. My dad occasionally asks me "had any of those lucid dreams lately?", and my mother occasionally tells me about her own dreams, leading into a conversation about dreaming.

I told my cousin about it, and he thought it was very interesting. I haven't spoken about it again with him since

Also, in English I wrote a informative piece of coursework on LDing, which some of my friends and others in the class read. They thought it was very interesting, and some said they'd tried the methods I'd mentioned. Haven't heard about what's happened with that though...

between the two of them they think I'm crazy. My mother said once that if it was a cult thing. Anyway, my sister is more excepting to it now. And my friends just choose not to have interest in it i.e them not asking about it. Though, one of my friends thinks that it's interesting.

I was reluctant to tell my dad about my LDing (he's the only one in my family I can talk to), but when I told him, he said he was a lucid dreamer too, when he was young. Since then, we share our dreams and LDs (though he says he almost doesn't have LDs anymore).

I've told two classmates about the subject, and they both had had LDs before, so they believed me. But they were not interested in trying to have them more often.

It's a shame that so many of you got negative reactions. ): It must be sad for those people to have such a limited perception of the human mind.

My dad thinks it cool. My mum thinks that its opening me up to demons, but I think ive convinced her its all in my head.

Originally Posted by Chris182t

My mum just changes the subject

Yeh mine often does the same.

I go to a boarding highschool in TN and I told my roomate and he thought that I was making it up and when I showed him some sites on the internet he said that the internet was crap. He tried to have a WILD once when I told him to but he didnt succeed. As for my family I havent been around them since I found out about lucid dreaming.