Thread: What does Your family Think Of LDs

Do they know it ? Do they think its from the devil or the like ?
Do memebers of your family practice it too ?
Post your experiences /situation
greets , sakoda

My family doesn't really know about my interest in it. Mainly because I think they really wouldn't care.

Though of the three friends i've told, two have only a mild interest in what i'm talking about when i'm on the subject, and the other one is rather interested. But not to the point of wanting to start trying for lucids himself...

After ordering some books my family found out. My dad was so sarcastic for the next few days asking if my dreams has been lucid lately.

My mother knows and is vaguely interested. My dad doesn't care. My brother thinks it's cool but doesn't want to try. My sister thinks it's stupid and pointless. And my only friend humours me and listens to my ramblings on it, but with a kind of "are you going to stop soon?" look in his eyes.

I have tried to explain it to my mother several times but i don't think she understands how amazing it is. The rest of my family don't understand it at all, they think it's some sort of weird hobby.

My mum knows about it, and I often talk about them with her. No one else though, they would think I am weird lol

My mom always thinks I'm a huge dork whenever I talk about lucid dreaming. She doesn't get the point of knowing when you're dreaming (but of course, we all do ).
But my stepmother not only is a lot more interested in dreams than my real mom, but she can actually lucid dream at will! I'm REALLY JEALOUS OF HER! lol

We can just feel sorry for all of them who don't know what they are missing.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

We can just feel sorry for all of them who don't know what they are missing.

Exactly.

It's funny because if I ever try to tell friends in RL about a cool lucid dream I had, I get the exact same blank stare/mild or feigned interest that I get from DCs in a dream when I tell them they're in a dream!

I told my mom and even though she is a bit nervous I'm depriving myself of sleep when I WBTB (which isnt true) she is very interested because she always bores everyone in the family about her dreams so now she actually has someone to talk to.

My sister finds it interesting and tells me whenever she has a LD.

My friend gets really annoyed that I'm taking the fun out of dreaming, which I keep trying to correct him but he doesn't seem to get it.

My brother doesn't really care cause he can't remember his dreams anyway.

ive talked to my parents about stuff like this. my dad thinks he knows everything about everything and he is always entirely wrong. my mom has insane ideas about dreaming that she thinks are true (i think she will be crazy one day). i talked to my dad about a certain method and he said he does it all the time, and then i just laugh at him because he has no idea what hes talking about. my sister is too retarded to comprehend anything of this sort.

My whole family thought for a long time (before I'd had one), that it's a bunch of bull crap, and that everybody is making it up.

Now that I swear I've had one they just don't care. When I first got into it my brother began to get interested, but when my dad shot him down for it he quit. My sister, who is 6 years old, remembers dreams quite frequently ever since I began talking about lucid dreaming. I think she is developing a fascination for dreams.

I still talk to my dad about it, but he dismisses it as taking the fun out of dreams. He says the whole fun is thinking it's real. I told him that the fun of having your own world and an alternate reality far outweighs the loss of fun for knowing that it's all in your head (if that takes any fun out of it at all...doesn't for me).

And just now my mom is telling me to get off that weird dreaming site......makes me want to scream!!!

My sister and mom litterally think i'm going insane.

I told my cousin about this a couple days ago and he really wants to do it. I think he started visiting these forums too. He got really interested in Dream Walkers and stuff.

I've gotten my younger sister to lucid dream. She now uses them as inspiration for her "mad art skillz." The rest of my family knows about it, but doesn't understand the purpose. Have they no imaginations? Are they really that distant from their dreams? ... One of my family members thinks that dreams are premonitions. *slaps forehead*

My parents always talk about their dreams, and my brother and I used to do LD training when we were younger, though he stopped after a few months. I did too, but I kept having them anyway.

My parents acted silly when I told them, before I had my first LD. When I told them I had had my first one, they just avoided the topic for some time. Now when I mention it they stare me with a "don't know what to say" look.

My agreeable uncle doesn't believe it is possible but is open for discussion, which is just what I want from people.

My disagreeable uncles and aunts just pretend they didn't hear it when I talk about it.

My sister appears to not have time to this "bullshit", but strangely she has lots of time to spend with that idiot she calls a boyfriend.

My cousins have had lucid dream themselves and are generally interested in the topic

But then, my family is an old-fashioned catholic style (apart from me, I'm atheist, thank God xD xD)

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.

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.

SWEET THREAD!
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.

right, I told her, but obviously badly, that I was having so-called "Lucid dreams", she said "It must be a sign of schizophrenia- we shall never talk of this again!". Hopefully in time I'll be able to educate her regarding what it is. Anyone else have similar problems telling people that you can LD?

It seems a lot of people tend to freak out about it when you tell them, because they just don't get it.

Previous thread on this:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=45350

cool thanks will post there

Isn't that strange. I mean schizophrenia isn't something you just shrug off. If there should be a reaction, it should've been: "It must be a sign of schizophrenia- we shall go to the doctor first thing in the morning!"