Thread: Does Racial Group Affect Lucidity?

Originally Posted by westonci

Where not talking about religion, where talking about race. However Jews are both a religion and a race

Jewish is not a race. Also, get your where, were, we're, they, they're, their and there right.

Yes it is. Link.

Originally Posted by 27

Yes it is. Link.

Well done, you gave me a link which doesn't help prove your point. Where in that text does it say that Jewish is a race? Try Ctrl + F. That's the Find function. Type in the word "race". Notice that it doesn't find any text saying that Jewish is a race. Still calling me a moron?

Originally Posted by Ostego

Well done, you gave me a link which doesn't help prove your point. Where in that text does it say that Jewish is a race? Try Ctrl + F. That's the Find function. Type in the word "race". Notice that it doesn't find any text saying that Jewish is a race. Still calling me a moron?

you gotta read between the lines

There might be a bigger link between culture an lucid dreaming.

Originally Posted by The Cusp

There might be a bigger link between culture an lucid dreaming.

This right here. Race having anything to do with dreams is bloody unlikely, hell I'd say the idea is retarded. On the other hand though, culture can have a great impact on your dream habits and your abilities.

Hypothetically, if you were part of a culture in which dreams are looked at as evil say, you probably wouldn't remember too many dreams, and if you did, you would more than likely suppress the dreams rather than explore them. On the other side, if you look at a culture like the Dunne-za* tribe, who's belief system is founded on dreams and dreaming, you will find people who dream frequently, have fantastic recall, and purposefully do certain activities in dreams (in what I would bet is lucid dreaming).

*I believe that was the name of the tribe, but anyway, if you want a good ethnographic work, of a culture that puts a lot of significance in dreaming, check out Trail to Heaven. It's not written like your average ethnography either, it has narrative, and a certain style that I enjoyed.

Originally Posted by I H8 Reality

you gotta read between the lines

What now? Did I just take something too seriously and derail the thread?

Can't we all just get along..

Ha.

Isn't being Jewish an ethnicity? Kind of OT though.

Cusp, I have to agree about culture being a bigger factor.

This is what it says on about.com - http://judaism.about.com/od/abcsofju...eingjewish.htm

Originally Posted by Xox

This is what it says on about.com - http://judaism.about.com/od/abcsofju...eingjewish.htm

Well the article was written by a jew, so its biased. Its in there best interest not to be referred to as a race, and blend in as white people.

Originally Posted by Ostego

Well done, you gave me a link which doesn't help prove your point. Where in that text does it say that Jewish is a race? Try Ctrl + F. That's the Find function. Type in the word "race". Notice that it doesn't find any text saying that Jewish is a race. Still calling me a moron?

How about where it says that it is an ethnoreligous group in the first paragraph? Did you read any of it? Belonging to the Jewish religion doesn't mean you're Jewish ethnically. Being Jewish ethnically doesn't mean you belong to the Jewish religion. What is so hard to understand?