Thread: What does Your family Think Of LDs

my mom dosent know because if i think i tell her i think she will make me stop trying my brother thinks its cool and said hes had one before and my dad i dont know what he thinks

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

cool thread!

right, I told my mom, 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.

I also told a friend at university about it, at first we both agreed that I sounded insane but I was able to get him to give me the benefit of the doubt cause on previous occasions I showed him my 3d monitor (where stuff can fly out or inside the screen, not just be flat like a drawing on paper), which, when described through words also sounds insane. Today I was surprised to hear him describe the most entertaining/funny lucid semi-lucid dream where he tried to do the hand and nose reality checks but both did not work (as in both were normal) so he ended up having a long philosophical conversation with an AI on his computer regarding the fact that he was dreaming, extremely similar to one of the conversations on "Waking Life"- I was dumbfounded as I could never recall conversations.

Originally Posted by yuriythebest

she said "It must be a sign of schizophrenia- we shall never talk of this again!"

maybe you ought to tell her what schizophrenia is too lmao, if that's her response to thinking her kid has it!

I've gotten both kind of reactions..

Since I'm studying psychology my mom thinks I know the meaning of her dreams ( wich I dont obviously ) and always tells me about her dreams. My dad also always talks about his dreams because many of them are pretty funny, so I thought it would be a normal conversation topic the day I first had a lucid dream, but they gave me the " strange hippie stuff " look , wich coming from my mother was bullshit because she beleives in weirdest things like.. past lifes, and angels, and feng shui. Maybe they thought it was strange because it happened around the same time they found it I used to smoke a lot of pot .

My sister is also very interested in dreams and she once had a natural LD. But when I told her to practice WILD she heard some weird laughs during HI and was really scared and I dont know if she tried again.

Now, I'm living with my girlfriend , and since she is very eskeptical ( atheist, marxist ) she first thought of it as new age non-sense. Nevertheless I kept talking about it all day long untill she finally beleive it was a natural brain process and decided to give it a try, she hasnt had an LD yet but she does have very good dream recall now and enjoys it

Both my parents think its stupid and don't get it.

My dad said " Its nonsonce and we live in the real world and not a fantasy world"

I get really annoyed with them when they say that because they haven't even read anything about it.

As for my sister, she does doesn't care.

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!"

It's generally not a good idea to be outright forthcoming with Lucid Dreaming practices if you live in the West, unless you like being viewed as a psychotic or eccentric. It's all the same to me, really (people already think I'm odd), but it's a bother I'd rather not waste time dealing with.

when i told my mum she said she would like to LD sometimes, but she likes the surprise in a normal dream.

when i told my dad, he said he doesnt want me on this forum anymore because you guys could be brainwashing me, and he wants me to "be a leader, not a follower"

when i told one of my freinds, she said a dream is supposed to convey a message.

when i told another friend, he said he already does it

when i told the rest of my friends, they just went "cool". but they make jokes about it now.

Originally Posted by slash112

when i told the rest of my friends, they just went "cool". but they make jokes about it now.

well isn't that lovely, I have to do a presentation on sleep and dreams on Friday... Oh, well, some get it, some don't, i guess...
~rvdork

Not any bad reaction, remember, making them look bad because they can't do it makes wonders lol (don't truly do that)
And to update, the people in last month that got into it because of me:
Friend OI: at first he didn't care, had a natural one and now wants to learn, I'm teaching him.
Friend II: I help him a lot, so now he owns me to try it.
Mom: She is an English Teacher, but since she never practices, got bad at it, so now I'm teaching her to LD while helping her with English, who would say DJ were usseful after all <.<

Meh people have a rough time understanding what it's all about if they don't immerse themselves in it, or haven't experienced it before. Most people I tell kind of get a glazed look in their eyes and just nod and smile at me if they don't understand what I'm talking about. They associate it with astral projection or talking to the dead and don't take you seriously.

If I get that kind of response I don't bother trying to talk about it anymore, even though I want too. My wife listens to me talk about my dreams but I don't think she really understands the depth of what entails a Lucid Dream. (Flying, summoning people out of thin air, molding a glob of rainbow colors in the sky for fun etc).

I wish I could get someone that had doubt and just get them to have a nice hour long Lucid Dream where they get to fly and touch things etc, and see the look on their faces the next day. It's life changing most times...

As for your mom telling you she thinks it's a sign of Schizophrenia... Well. As a paranoid parent, (my son is only 11 months old though), a little paranoia is okay. If I were you I'd get some really good education materials together, (try to include information that isn't trying to sell something at the end of it) and have her read up. It's nothing schizophrenic at all, it's a phenominon that has been going on since the dawn of man. Who's to say dog's don't do the same thing?

I tried explaining it to the in-laws (just for conversation), and the F-I-L said "I don't understand, I dream almost every night and I remember them in the morning, and I know they were a dream". Uhhh, yaaaaa. Pretty much 95&#37; of the population dream and know it was a dream! It's the smaller percentage that can actually recognize the dream while in it! I'm not sure he understood even after that!

I kind of told my mother, but she didn't seem to happy with the idea, so instead, I lied and changed it so it sounded...better.

I don't tell anyone.

I've told people about my interest in various things in the past only to watch them either debate it and dismiss it when all I was doing was just sharing, not asking for opinion or approval.

Also, I don't want people asking me all the time, did you have a lucid dream recently? Meanwhile they don't have enough interest to even read an article on it.

Same scenario every time. I tell someone something interesting and they ask me the same questions about it every time I see them. The same basic questions. "Tell me again about looking at your hands all day" Argh!

AND... at a party or gathering they will out me, yea "Johny Boy" here believes in lucid dreaming and says he can do it. Tell us about it..." Awkward!

No thanks,

I've gotten friends to be interested in it, and one is now a dreamer to... But others just took a little advice on dream recall, and didn;'t do anything more.

nobody knows that i'm learning it, but i think my sister suspects it. they know i keep a dream journal. we were talking about how badly we wanted to travel but couldn't and i said how cool it would be (bringing it up like it was a new concept to me) if we could control our dreams, then we could travel where ever we wanted haha i was like "i'm going to mars lol" and my friend just cracked up at me. i want shared dreams to be real coz if they are i'm gunna find her and take her ass to mars and then see whos laughin haha
i think my dad would be pretty keen on it. he interprets dreams.

Even though I havn't had one yet, I told my mum about it and she was like "wow thats nice honey" without even looking at me and then started laughing at something that was supposedly funny on TV. I havnt told my sister or my brother's. i told my brother's girlfriend and she is reallly excited about this and she believes me 100% and shes trying to have on too. I told my 2 best friends and they had the same reaction as my brother's girlfriend. One of my friend's was like "oh man i cant wait to jump off a building!" and the other was like "dude i cant imagine how great it would be to have one! I would so be a jedi in coruscant!" me personally i would just like to hang out in Zanarkand. It is after all a "dream city".

hehe, fun thread to read

I think after I had my first (and only so far) lucid dream I told everyone
(Before that only a few people)

I didn't get anything below 'somewhat interested'. I don't know how many of them actually tried out, but some wanted me to send them a link to DV. A friend told me a while ago that he is trying reality checks during daytime, I might have to reassure him to keep it up.

Everybody so far thought it's a good thing, most probably don't want to try out themselves, but they are interested in my progress. My sister also had vivid experiences with (non lucid i think) dreams and seems to get more interested in the subject. I am staying at her place for a couple of weeks over christmas and we want to try out some techniques and get a little more into the whole 'mind' thing together. Very much looking forward to that.

BTW I love these 'confused looks' you may get, especially if someone is just overhearing the (one-sided) conversation. I just talk about it, as if it is the most normal thing in the world (which it should be..) loads of fun for me.

Well my mother thinks im going crazy and sighs every time she hears me say something about it or sees me watching videos on how to have a lucid dream.
My dad thinks its real and has tried but he doesn't rlly care..
My sister seems a little interested though..

My parents think it's kind of cool and interesting, but the don't get just how awsome it is.
They are pretty open minded... but don't really get it... I was talking to my dad last night about how I wanted a recorder to record my dreams, and he thought it was weird lol.
My friends think it's just another crazy thing I'm interested in. Oh, if only they knew.

Originally Posted by Creativename

My parents think it's kind of cool and interesting, but the don't get just how awsome it is.
They are pretty open minded... but don't really get it... I was talking to my dad last night about how I wanted a recorder to record my dreams, and he thought it was weird lol.
My friends think it's just another crazy thing I'm interested in. Oh, if only they knew.

Yup, im in the same boat. They thinks its interesting, but just another crazy thing that I like to do