This subject hits close to home. I told my brother about lucid dreaming just the other night. We're really close and I respect him and his opinions immensely. Only problem is, my brother is a big skeptic. I mean, I'm a skeptic, but this guy isn't convinced that gravity is going to work from second to second if you know what I mean.

Anyway, I told him about how I was experimenting with being conscious in my dreams and he was like, "Are you sure you aren't just concentrating on the hits and not the misses?" And I'm like, "Dude, I've run into a whole mess of misses my whole life! That's what regular dreams are!" Then I explained to him that since I started getting seriously into this about a month ago, I've had three lucid dreams. I mean, how do you explain that away?? He just started joking about how I'd be rambling on about out of body experiences next - and it make me think that he was inadvertently equating the two, which kinda pissed me off. I mean, lucid dreaming has been proven and studied. I know that OBEs cannot be proven and are merely personal accounts like religious experiences.

It's hard because I love lucid dreaming and everything you can accomplish from it, but I'm also a skeptical atheist. I don't like telling this to my brother or my other skeptics friends and have them regard it as something mysterious and mystical.

Ya know?