Do they know it ? Do they think its:evil: from the devil or the like ?
Do memebers of your family practice it too ?
Post your experiences /situation
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Do they know it ? Do they think its:evil: 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. :pissed:
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 just thinks it is weird. My dad thinks that it is fascinating, but is worried that it might be dangerous for some reason. I have told him countless times that it isn't, but he just can't seem to shake the feeling. :(
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 :D).
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. :shakehead:
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Originally Posted by Moonbeam
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.
They wish they could, but don't try.
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...:mad:...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)
i havent told my family, its my dreams :P
i've mentioned it to friends though...and i just don't get it...a couple had one shot and gave up....a few didn't even understand the idea properly and some just don't care.
i just don't get it...the second i heard about it i was right into it...how is it not the coolest thing ever lol?
I agree james. I told my brother about it and he just said it was stupid, Even if it worked. The minute i heard about lucid dreaming I got really excited and decided I would try to acheive it.
But I guess some people are different...
correction:
but i guess some people are different/missing out/clinically insane
:D
I recall when i dicovered lucid dreaming i wondered why anybody wouldn't want to lucid dream. It's crazy to think that people ain't interested. It's like asking somebody how do you fancy being able to do anything you want in your own world and then them saying no thanks. no. :shock: :?Quote:
Originally Posted by james_jlc
they think that im crazy
My mom doesn't get it, my sister doesn't car, and dad at first thought it was dangerous, but when I explained it a little more he thought it was interesting but hasn't had any luck with LDing.
My brother and father both have had lucid dreams, but haven't researched it more i.e. they don't know any induction techniques, have very little control in the dreams etc. The rest of my family don't know much about it, but have listened (i don't know how enthusiastically though) when i've rambled on about it.:P
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 :lol:
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 :shock: 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 :P 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! :pissed:
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
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Originally Posted by TheFinalCut
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:lol:
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:roll:. 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. :roll:
Yeh mine often does the same. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris182t
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.
I mentioned it to my mom (I got so mad at her when she woke me up from an LD xD) and she might think it's vaguely interesting. My dad doesn't know and probably would be the same way.
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.
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!" :shock:
Hehe... My parents like the idea... Means I can't get too drunk :D 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...:D
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 :P
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! :banana: 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.
At first my parents though I was making it all up until my mom had one. lol. MY brother is starting to get them but hasn't had as many as me. My dad was super skeptical about all parts of the lucid dreaming world. He laughed when I told him about WILD and the body being asleep and the mind awake. He's starting to come around now though. He's had a couple in his life but non of them with control.
THey still think I'm a little weird though.
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.
:shock: maybe you ought to tell her what schizophrenia is too lmao, if that's her response to thinking her kid has it!Quote:
Originally Posted by yuriythebest
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.
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...Quote:
Originally Posted by slash112
~rvdork:banana:
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% 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".:D
hehe, fun thread to read :)
I think after I had my first (and only so far) lucid dream I told everyone :D
(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.. :boggle::boggle::boggle:
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. :D
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Yup, im in the same boat. They thinks its interesting, but just another crazy thing that I like to do :P
I've been reading all the posts on this topic, and it doesn't surprise me that a lot of people don't give a S*** about dreaming. And you know, it's too bad they don't care. All of us on DV are having a blast, while the majority of the rest of the population doesn't know what they're missing.
It's nice to be able to collaborate with you guys. I too have talked to my friends and family about lucid dreaming, but they all just think I'm a big weirdo when I bring up the subject. Out of the 50 or so people I've talked to about it, only 1 has sparked an interest. Quite a shame.
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..:P
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 :cheeky:
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 :P
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
Wow.. do you think they could hypnotize you so that you could easily become lucid in your dreams? :)Quote:
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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.
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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:
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 :)Quote:
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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.:P
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! :boogie:
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...
My mother and brothers know of it. My brothers are indifferent about it, well one believes they are real but has decided he has to much to worry about in the waking life to bother with them and the other is indifferent about it.Quote:
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My mother supports my and has I have told her about the WBTB method and she has decided if she ever gets woken up early that she will try to do it.
I talk to my girlfriend about it... in fact, I told her when I woke up about this morning's lucid!! :) :) :) she's really excited for me because she knows that I'm trying to get better at it, and hold onto them for longer. She doesn't judge. But she also isn't interested in trying for herself I don't think. We talk about dreams we had all the time when we wake up.
I think my mom would say what I'm doing is stupid or not show a lot of interest in it. My dad might find it interesting, but he's a pothead and talking to him is like pulling teeth sometimes because I have to keep repeating everything.
I don't think I've mentioned it to anyone at work. I'll think about it.
My mom treats my interest in lucid dreaming like I have an interest in trimming my fingernails.
My dad, however, takes a large interest and even wants to try it himself! :boogie:
My mom is cool with it, really doesn't care except when I'm taking too long typing out a dream when she decides to wake me up and tell me we have to leave unexpectedly within the next few minutes. Never anything that requires a hurry, either, and for anything preplanned I set an alarm.
My dad, on the other hand, is really into all sorts of magic (witchcraft and healing, not arcane stuff or parlor tricks) and paranormal, so this stuff's right up his alley.