Thread: What does Your family Think Of LDs

I was sad to know that my parents really dont care. I'm only 15, so they probably think that, being a teenager, I'm just getting too into something that's not that big of a deal. My dad thinks that I'm making it up and he keeps saying things like "Are you sure it's not just a really vivid dream?" Same with my sister. I always want to tell them something like "Last night I finally learned to fly!" But they wouldn't care.

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well umm my family doesnt give a shit, and they think its like stupid and ungodly...haha i dont care though, i do it and i meditate and i have learned to not care about the material. My family doesnt undertand. not that they have tried to anyways. oh and i have a question. WHAT approach should someone take to bring knowledge of LDs to people? i personally lost alot of respect and dignity because of being open about it....they look at me like if i was a homosexual, with the same expression of "you're weird" in their face, but i dont give a shit.

All I get from my family is my younger brother calling me a "hippy" now...
and that my mom likes to jump on my back (not really but you know what I mean) about "You cant believe things off the internet" (even tho once to get rid of dye in my sisters hair she coated it with mayonnaise, put a bag on the top part of her head and then taped it down...it didnt work even tho I told her it was stupid)
Tried telling two of my friends while playing basketball, one thought it was pretty cool and the other didnt really respond.

My mom has a book about Lucid Dreaming that I found that got me into it . See hasnt had any luck, my dad has frequent lucid dreams. My sisters are alot younger than me so they don't really understand it, but my next door neighbors are really into Lucid Dreaming and do it all the time, so I talk to them for help

My mum gave me a funny look when I mentioned it to her as if she was saying "wtf are you on drugs?". My step-mum was interested but skeptical about it.
Haven't mentioned it to my dad as he would just laugh and change the subject.

Well my family basically doesn't say anything but i'm sure they think i'm crazy, my sister says she thinks it's cool though...
I used to babble to my one friend for a long time about it and how cool it was (she was someone who i thought would appretiate it.) and finally she said, "I really don't care!"

Hehe... My parents like the idea... Means I can't get too drunk My brother and sisters thinks it's cool but don't think it's for them (a.k.a they are too lazy to learn)

i told my mom-- she probably thinks it's "new agey"/some sort of phase i'm going through, my guess from her facial expression when i told her what i've been doing. i asked her why she made that face- she said "well, i think it's possible to knwo that you're dreaming, but i don't think it's possible to control your dreams.." she doesn't realize that this isn't a theory.

My father is interested...but he does not understand the extent of what I've experienced while dreaming...and doesn't want to. He feels focusing on dreams is a waste of my life, and if that's the only thing I ever did I would agree, but it's not. My mom is clueless about itand doesn't want to hear too much about it...so I don't try to talk to her about it. My brother, who's 23, looks to me as resource for his dreams, it's kind of funny really. He had one lucid dream and flipped and called me and wanted to know all about it,only to let it go for months...probably until his next one......Good to have found folks that actually know the value of these special dreams and experiences.

I was just about to make a thread about this, but since it exists... BUMP.

Anyway. I didn't tell my parents about LDing directly, but when my mom was visiting me she noticed I was looking at my hand. She asked me about it and I explained about LDs. She pretty much never dreams according to her (she only sleeps about 4-6 hours a night leaning toward the 4 side) so she didn't really get it. She's a big believer in the power of the human mind and was afraid that messing with my mind in this way could be dangerous. She was also worried that I would end up confusing dreams and reality.

The next week I went to visit my parents and brother and apparently my mom had mentioned it to them. I explained it to them and they were much more interested than she was. I knew that my step dad had had LDs before since dreams had come up at the dinner table in the past so I wasn't surprised that he was interested. He started researching it that night online and had an LD that night. He seems to have LDs semi-often (once a week maybe?) without trying, but he says they are very brief because he gets drawn back into the dream without noticing (he's a very deep sleeper and loud snorer).

I haven't told my Dad, but I wouldn't be surprised if he already LDs. I know he keeps a dream journal and is really interested in wacky things like aliens building the great pyramids, zero-point energy fields, the 10th planet, conscious cells, and other weird things he mentions.

My parents think it's pointless and nothing special, and a deprevation of sleep. They are against it, but passively.

Everyone in my family knows about it, mom want to have them but don't tries, sisters doesn't want to control them as they believe in dreams having a meaning, one of my brothers is natural and the other doesn't have recall...
Other than that, every person I told about was pretty interested in it, after saying I'm crazy, and idiot or the devil, because at the end, its so easy to tell them "So your jealous because your so useless to actually have them, right?" Always got angry and either started to say they were able to do it, or wanted to do it just to show how better than me they are lol Simple minded <.<

They really don't care that much about it, but they don't think I'm weird, so all is well!

I basically talk to my parents like I would if I was talking to a police officer, because anything you say will be taken down and used as evidence against you at a later date. Ergo, they know very little about me. They THINK they do, but they don't.

Which is probably for the best, really...

My family thinks it is pretty cool, except my brother. They don't think it is weird at all, and think that it is a cool hobby for me, since I like stories, fantasy and all that stuff :].

I told my friends about it too, and they laugh at my dreams. They tell me that my dreams are so weird xP. lol, My friend might start up a journal herself.

I use to be one of those people that thought it was some crazy, internet thing that wasn't really true. Because we all know that there's plenty of fake stuff on the net.

But it was still fascinating, because if it was true, it would be amazingly fun. So I tried for a while after finding this site and I've started having them regularly.

Anyways, I don't really mention it to people because most of the people I usually talk to would assume that I've gone crazy. And my parents are psychologists so I would assume they've at least heard of them but I don't want them to think something's wrong with me

My family dosent know, ive hinted my mom that im doing someting with my dreams. Ive told my friends, at first they were interested but don't put the time into learning : /

No.

My family is pretty cool about it. My dad and my sister are naturals. My dad tells me to stop spending so much time sleeping. My sister thinks it's fun to hear about the stories, but I go into so much detail that she usually gets annoyed. If something really funny happens we usually share the stories, and if we find out the other has gotten lucid we congratulate one another.
My mom had a couple naturally when she was younger, so since I've gotten into it we always talk to each other about our lucids. She started having them just because I kept talking to her about them and taught her to reality check. Unlike my sister she likes to hear and share all the LD details, and we spend a lot of time talking about how awesome dreaming is.
My brother never remembers his dreams and is highly skeptical of lucid dreaming, I think. It's gotten to the point where if I mention it (which I do very often) he just pretends I didn't say anything and we change the subject. A couple of times he's talked about how awesome it would be to do crazy things (like stand on a train track and let a train bear down on you) and I said he should learn to lucid dream so he could try it. He always just looks at me funny, even though my mom and sister agree that it's possible. Eh, what can ya do? He never remembers his dreams so it's understandable that he thinks I'm making it all up or just having regular dreams.

I haven't bothered to tell my parents about it, I doubt they'd care. But I told one of my friends and he got right into it, I doubt ill tell any of my other friends just because they'll say something like "That's gay" or "You're lying" or something along those lines.

My parents do know that somethings up though, I usually have a very 'bored' personality, so they can tell I'm doing something with my time.

lol my parents would think im either gay or a nutcase for writing down my dreeams. i think the lucid part may interest them...i should mention it.

I have a close friend who has had a few LDs in the past, and he totally understands what it's all about. As for the rest of my family/friends, they are largely indifferent regarding what I'm doing. This is probably due to the fact that I don't talk about it much.

On the occasions where I've been forced to explain myself, I immediately disarm people with this simple question: "If you're going to waste 6-8 hours a day sleeping, shouldn't you try to enjoy it?".

My mom thinks I'm Insane in the membrane insane in the brain..

yep.. I talked to her for like 1 hour about the benefits of lucid dreaming... She never talks to me... and she never listens.... so I decided to Brute force her to listen lmfao.. and she did!!! thats right! lol....
shes just afraid of the unknown, and is very narrow minded I Guess

My family thinks it's cool. My friend also tries to lucid dream.