Thread: What does Your family Think Of LDs

My sister naturally has LDs. That bastard. I sent her the link to this site. Not sure if she went to it or not.. My mom thinks its cool, but she doesnt want to try it herself. My friends who I told it to. (3) two of them were interested. Only one actually does RC's regualrly.

They don't know and I don't bother to tell them. Only a handful of my friends know and most of them are lucid dreamers too.

I think dreams are so personal that there is no need to tell. Besides, I don't wanna keep proving my sanity to certain people. Some people just are too closed-minded.

They either think I'm nuts or don't get it.

yeah..hahah
i dont want to tell my parents..or family they will think im crazy..
other than that, i have told my friends that i love dreaming and stuff..hahah but, my best friend alexis was like your weird!
so whatever..there missing out

I see my family a few times a year and just about every time I visit they ask about the books I read, the way I'm always frantically writing stuff as soon as I wake up, and the reasons why I always look at my hands at the dinner table. I then explain lucid dreaming to them but I don't think they understand the concept because they forget about it and I have to explain it the next time I visit. They lean towards the conservative Christian side and I don't think lucid dreaming really fits well into that worldview for most. I've had a few instances where I'll tell friends and acquaintences about it and they'll flat out tell me that they don't believe in it, to which I reply "It was scientifically PROVEN at Stanford." However, I never really talk about it unless someone asks me directly about it.

Funny this thread came up today. My parents just asked why I wake up so early some days, and about the books I'm reading, so I explained LDing to them. Then my mom says "oh yeah, I have those every once in a while. If I wake up early for some reason after recognizing something was a dream, I just go back to sleep and tell myself it's a dream, then I finish the dream however I want it"

!!! I'm so jealous haha

I'm rather surprised to hear so many people saying their friends are not interested in lucid dreaming. I mostly spoke to female friends about it and they were all very interested. Several even tried to learn from me...another still hasn't given me my Stephen LaBerge book back and it's been 3 months now because she is so fascinated by lucid dreaming. I told two guy friends about this and luckily I chose smart ones. One said he learned about it in psychology and it seemed really neat but he had terrible dream recall. The other has a sister majoring in neuroscience so he knows all about it. One of my good friends girlfriend was very surprised to find out I was interested in lucid dreaming. She turned me onto the movie "Waking Life". I've seen a few clips, can't wait to borrow it from her next time I see her so I can watch the whole thing.


My family on the other hand... I have never made an effort to tell them but at the same time I do not really care one way or another about telling them as they would not care one way or another about my interest in it.

It's depressing how many members here have family that think it's bad or something. My parents were extremely open to the idea of Lucid Dreaming, and still support my love of it to this day. I talk to my mom about DV a lot, and my dad acts as a constant RC because of how many times he mentions it in regular conversation.

I've mentioned it to friends. They've all said "Oh, that sounds cool..." and went on their way. But my best friend is actively trying to have her 1st, and has been ever since I told her about it.

I've even gone so far as to tell a few of my teachers and my Co Girl Scout leader about Lucid Dreaming, since they had all seen me at one time or another with some kind of LD material. Surprisingly, I got positive responses. Not just a "That's cool", but actual conversation.

I guess I'm just one of the lucky ones that can actually talk about it openly. Maybe it's the environment I'm in? I don't know. Might there be factors as to why some can freely talk about it, while others can't?

My mum dosent really know anything about it, dad used to experiment with lucid dreaming things when he was younger so hes down with it. My friends think its pretty cool but most of them think theres too much work and cant be bothered
Got the comment from one of my mates, "Woa, so its like being a dream nazi"
Not quite sure what he meant by that.

I told my family, but I shouldn't have. They think I'm nuts. Their loss, not mine
When I told them it was scientifically proven, they didn't want to believe it XD

My friends are open and responsive, though. Well, some of them

I told my family the day I've started. My dad said it was interesting but haven't shown any interest. My mom has tried to ignore the fact that I am a weirdo. My brother really don't give a ***. I told my friends I was doing something that they would find weird so I didn't tell them which might be worst than telling them 'cause now they might think I do weird stuff that is REALLY weird. But whatever. People are so closed-minded!

My parents both used to be hypnotherapists so they both knew about it, and in a lot of detail. I had no idea they knew about it, so when I found out it was pretty cool.

It amazes me why some people don't believe it, to know your in a dream your only realizing the setting of your current state what is the difference between knowing your in a school in a dream, and knowing your in a dream in a dream. It just proves to me that people lack common sense frequently that they can't even make those connections. They think knowing that your environment is within a dream is somehow magical, rather then knowing that it the environment is something else well in the dream.

I really wouldn't tell anybody about it. Most people I know seem to regard thoroughly ordinary interests of mine as being odd or eccentric or nerdish, so something like LD would probably spin them out entirely.

my dad is cool with it, hes always been pretty laid back about life in general, and he always connects with me somehow, my mom thinks its kinda weird, but shes cool with it too, she thinsk that its going to amke me find jesus since hell coem to me in my dreams, one fo my brothers laughs at it thinking its dumb, his wife thinks its almost as interesting as birds and abts(shes working on a PHD in zoology) and my other brother has attempted to do it but isnt comfortable with keeping a dream journal(or at least an open one) so as far as i know he doesnt attempt, but if i ever talk about an experience i had, he wants to hear everything about it, and for one of them(being the one that got me intersted in it) was the most terrifying experience of my life(he said it was old hag syndrom) or just SP

Originally Posted by Brassfire

My parents both used to be hypnotherapists so they both knew about it, and in a lot of detail. I had no idea they knew about it, so when I found out it was pretty cool.

Wow.. do you think they could hypnotize you so that you could easily become lucid in your dreams?

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My sister's actually the one who told my mom and me about lucid dreaming. I told one of my friends and she just thought I was weird. I haven't told anyone else. I generally find that the things that fascinate me either bore or confuse everyone I know, and I tend to scare people away when I talk about them. I don't imagine lucid dreaming is an exception.

Originally Posted by Clairity

Wow.. do you think they could hypnotize you so that you could easily become lucid in your dreams?

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I don't know, I have never really talked to them about their hypnotherapy until recently. In fact I never really knew for the longest time, because they did that before I was born.

But I am planning to start to work with them on some things in that respect, I will ask them about that as well.

My mom has lucid dreams and yet does nothing with them and doesn't want to bother doing anything with them.

An unmotivated natural. D:

Originally Posted by Clairity

Wow.. do you think they could hypnotize you so that you could easily become lucid in your dreams?

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Well I believe it is good when combined with self-suggestion. I however doubt, that it will be *easy* since hypnosis affects your sub-con.. however I believe it can be very stiuational and hugely depend on the person

My father saw me looking at LD's up in the internet so I sent him an email with some articles, I don't think he ever checked it out. Most of my friends don't care about it, and there's one who does but he thinks I'm some sort of psycho.

As some said above, I feel sorry for the people who don't know about it and refuse to hear because they think its "dorkish" or anything.

The question is, why DO they think it's "dorkish"?

You have to admit it would lead to a very interesting survey...

Probably because anything not endlessly hyped as 'normal' or 'cool' by the mainstream media mafia (and thus probably actually interesting) is automatically 'dorkish' to some people.

My parents both think that it is stupid and pointless, as it has no "outward" gain. Which goes to show you how materialistic this world is, when "outward" gain (gain of success or money) is more important that personal gain and fulfillment of life-long dreams. They both believe it is possible however, but my mother is a firm believer that dreams and lucid dreams do not feel real at all, and I think my father feels the same.

My grandmother, who suprisingly is very open minded, believes in them. And from me talking about it, she had one herself, although she feels she's too "old" to do those "crazy" things like fly...I don't think she gets the fact that this is not a question of age or physical fitness...I'm happy for her though, as, since she was abused from foster home to foster home as a child, has many many nightmares. And this allows her to stop them!

Most friends I tell give the generic "Thats cool!..." that seems to be all to familiar to people on this forum. But my one of my friends was actually the person to get me hooked on lucid dreaming! She came on MSN one day and told me she had her first lucid dream that night. From the minute I learned what they were, and that I could truely experience the sensation of flight, I was hooked! And then I found my way here!

Yeah...Thats my reaction story...