...yeah people just don't give it a chanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Xox
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...yeah people just don't give it a chanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Xox
I had never even heard of lucid dreaming until about a month ago. I doubt if any of my friends have either.
People don't hear it or don't know about it because this world only is focused on the media. You mostly hear people that have trouble to sleep and have insomnia. Plus with the world today, people are so busy they don't have time to even think about dreaming.
A lot of my friends try do.
More people probably do than you think, they either don't know what to call it, or don't want to talk about it, or don't think to talk about it. Or it just never comes up in normal conversation, I know I rarely ever talk about dreams with friends, family, or co-workers. With the exception of my husband, who asks what dreams did you have every morning when I wake up. I ask him too and we talk about them.
I told my parents when I had my first lucid dream as a kid, usually told them my dreams; and my dad told me about a way he controls his dreams and can dream what he wants. I found it interesting, he talked about techniques he had to get to sleep as well, like breathing, counting, and muscle relaxing techniques all in one. It didn't mean anything to me then but after reading this forum it does now and I wish I could remember more of what he said. He never talked about it again, no need to I guess.
To take a shot at it I would say it's because first of all for the most part people don't remembers thier dreams to begin with so there is your first problem. Also, Because of that they wouldn't even remember if they even had a lucid dream because they wouldn't be able to remember what they dreamt about. I'm sure people lucid dream on thier own but they just don't know what it is, or that it even has a name. So sadly, the majority of people don't lucid dream beause they don't even remember the dream to begin with, And the term lucid dreaming in unheard of for most people.
Eh, a lot of people I know know about them. Once some kid at my school said something about these repeating nightmares he kept having, and it somehow led to someone asking about 'those dreams where you know you're dreaming and can do anything.' 3 or so people said they'd had them before, and someone else said they have one every time they have this repeating dream about a museum.
Also, once in science my teacher was talking about REM sleep and the girl sitting next to me asked me what it was called when 'you have those dreams where you know it's a dream.'
Yeah, but of course none of them have them intentionally or even know the term 'lucid dream.'
I have a number of friends who lucid dream. I think most people don't do it because they either don't know about it or consider altered states of consciousness to be "new-agey" and phony.
Same, i think im the only ld'er at my schoolQuote:
Originally Posted by Greedo
Yeah, the problem with dream recall is big, plus people just don't understand dreams. Have you ever heard a person say "I don't dream" or something along those lines? I hate that because I know they do dream, they simply don't remember it.
I've actually talked about lucid dreaming with a couple kids at my school and they say they've done it once or twice. I can't contemplate how people don't think LDing is real. I just can't really understand it I guess, but you could always tell skeptics about the tests done. Since your eyes still are able to move while you are dreaming, I believe LaBerge did something with that and the test subject would do certain eye movements like left-right twice or something to signal certain things. I only really heard about it somewhere else, don't know the details.
Yep, that's right. LaBerge set up this experiment where he agreed to move his eyes left and right a set amount of times, then wait and repeat it. He was not the first one to experiment with communicating with the outside world, but I think he was the first to do it in a scientifically acceptable way.
This has also been repeated many times later.
The main problem I think is, as ninja said, that LD'ing can easily appear as some phony new-age thing, if you don't hear about the scientific proof.
I have one friend at my school who thinks lucid dreaming is awesome, two who can't understand how I do it because they "don't think" in their dreams and one who argues and argues about how do scientists know that we dream 4 (or more) times every night and says that it's a bunch of mumbo-jumbo(sp?), when I try to explain to her about all the scientific studies and such she just says we dont know and I fell like this --> :bang:
Not read all the replies here but I think primarily it is down to people just not even thinking about questioning the dream state - for example I was talking to my girlfriend about this the other night and she said she always flys in dreams; so I asked her, "Well did you not think to yourself this must be a dream because I cannot fly?" And she said that she knew it was a dream but didn't think about taking control or doing anything with it.
So I think there are a lot of people out there who know they are dreaming but never actually think to take control or push the boundaries.
I know for a fact before I found this site my lucid dreams were very mundane and lacked any real drive to achieve anything. When I found this site, I managed to set myself some tasks and make the most of my lucid dreams.
my belife is that lots of people have them once or twice (i know i did), but dont share them b/c they think its just an annomaly. so it seems that not many people have them.
make sense?
Alot of people think it doesn't exist, and some think it is evil (though very few). People are always afraid of what they don't know or understand (I think I just quoted a famous person). Alot of people born in the most recent generation are far more open-minded than we were centuries, or even decades ago. Hope it answers your question.Quote:
Originally Posted by antiflag
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Originally Posted by Spamtek
yeah I told my mom about it and she thought it seemed evil until I actually explained it to her in better detail. I dont see how someone could think of it as evil. :?Quote:
Originally Posted by jereb
When I explain what lucid dreaming is a lot of my friends tell me they have had at least one.
a lot of people have experienced lucid dreams. its just that they dont know what its called. an educated person would just think that it is just a very vivid dream. But i have told some of my friends and they have had them before. but they dont seem to find the value in them. even after i spend a while talking to them about it. what is it about some people that dont find it attractive?
Dunno.. tried to convince my friends they were real. But their so sceptical about it :(
Because it doesn't exist and its evil. Duh.
Necro-ing old threads is frowned apon, hootman.
But as long as it's here, I think alot more people practice it than you think. In my psychology class last year we talked about lucid dreaming, which not only gave me a chance to plug DV but also let me find out that a kid I'd known for years was a lucid dreamer and I had no idea.