Thread: Lucid dreaming in mainstream society

Lucid dreaming should be a main part of our culture today.

It should be educated and taught, that way it can be further perfected by the population of people in society.

Everyone is capable of doing it, some are more lazy than others, but I believe its a beautiful part of life that most people are completely unaware of. This should be fixed.

Imagine a world where everyone had that connection with each other;

"Are you a dreamer?"
"Yeah man, had a great dream last night where I lived out all my fantasies. I feel better as a person because of it"

Everyone could relate to each other. It could be studied more in depth. It could potentially expand the potential of the human brain.

I just think its a beautiful thing that everyone should be aware of, and its a shame that most people go through their lives in oblivious sleep.

That would be cool, the only problem right now is that if it did get mainstream I'm sure it would be protested by various religious groups as "demonic." I obviously realize that it's not, but I feel kind of protective of it. I wouldn't want people tarnishing it's name.

Oh, and digging the avatar by the way.

It would be cool if we got more people to know about and practice it... but eventually society would limit things by putting its own set of ethics and morals on it, then urban myths would take hold, and then all kinds of religious fanatics would call it Satanic and start segments on it at the end of the local news...

If it became mainstream like a religion I think the world may be a more dangerous place. The weak minded will 'merge' dreams and reality as one and there may be more violence/crime as I have seen some posts here that involve killing someone or sexual urges that have been suppressed. So with the current state of human behaviour..No...it's not a good thing. If you remember the movie Matrix...there were some guys who followed that movie and started a shooting spree so same goes for dreaming..there is a tendency to spill over into waking perception if it gets out of hand.

IMJ

I wouldn't like it to become mainstream because I feel a kind of intimacy, knowing that I do something special. If it became huge, it would no longer be "cool" or "unique" for me to be keeping a DJ or doing anything associated with it. I still like the uniqueness, and I don't want that to go away. It has kind of a cult following, and only a few people in my school do it.

A tad off topic, but this thread reminded me of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxAz9hHfhzE

Don't worry, its not a rick roll.

I kinda agree with this one. Not even become a part of mainstream culture but like most people don't even know the phenomenon exists or is controllable, proven, and can be consistently done with some work. I wish there was some sort of general public knowledge on the subject anyways but there doesn't seem to be much of it in many demographics.

It's not so cool when everybody does it, right? LDs went mainstream in my country a while ago and now I don't feel so special anymore XD

Are you familiar with the 2012 theory, it is the end of the Mayan calendar, it is what they believed to be the end of the world as we know it.

Urban legend, it's where a new millenium starts in Mayan calendar (13:0:0:0).

Originally Posted by Mertruve

LDs went mainstream in my country a while ago and now I don't feel so special

where do you live?

Originally Posted by yuriythebest

where do you live?

was wondering the same thing

Originally Posted by SleepyCookieDough

was wondering the same thing

was also wondering the same thing

Poland. There was a boom for LD-related books that were later discussed in the media. Now the whole magic of being a part of LD community is gone when you go to a mall and see people reality checking. :/

Mainstream society doesn't like anything it can't control, regulate and put laws around. They're still freaked by the internet. LDs would totally psyche them out.

I wouldn't mind it, if lucid dreaming went mainstream. But people would look for the easiest way to do it. Lucid dreaming would become commercialized, and then fade out.

Originally Posted by Abra

I wouldn't mind it, if lucid dreaming went mainstream. But people would look for the easiest way to do it. Lucid dreaming would become commercialized, and then fade out.

you cant really say that.. Ld isnt something you can do in 1 shot, there be alot of greedy companys out there and new programs to suck up all our money to learn how to LD, and it wont work and people will spend even more money, making it harder and harder to LD! meaning it will make LDing even rarer, but for us. we be like gods to everone.

HOW CAN I LD Pl0x!!!

Ok, there are like a zillion of these ridiculous 2012 apocalypse theory threads all over the world, so this is your warning: Take that nonsense elsewhere. Do not post that into the on topic sections.

I was very disappointed after opening my Psychology book (titled Psychology: Themes and Variations, Briefer Version, Seventh Edition, by Wayne Weiten, and was published in 2008 mind you) and reading the entire sleep/dream section just to realize that they didn't say a thing about lucid dreaming. Not a thing. I thought that by 2008 there was enough information on lucid dreaming for it to be worthy of mentioning in the dream section of a Psychology book. Who the hell is charge of what does and doesn't go into the dreaming section of psychology books? Who do I have to write a letter to in order to convince them of mentioning lucid dreams in the next edition of this book?

I guess I'm going to have to be the one to spread the word to my psych class maybe in the form of a project or research paper.

I'm quite okay with it not being mainstream.

The main amount of people that LD are very intelligent, and looking to expand their minds.

The majority of Society, can't even be civil with people of different race and religion.

Originally Posted by KingOfTwilight

I'm quite okay with it not being mainstream.

The main amount of people that LD are very intelligent, and looking to expand their minds.

The majority of Society, can't even be civil with people of different race and religion.

That made me feel very good about wanting to LD.

I'd give it a month of popularity or less in America before the scare monger religious morons condemned it and the next thing you'd see on the TV is "Fawx News late night report, Lucid Dreaming, BEING USED TO TRAIN TERRORISTS?1!1oneshift!one!11"

I'd like to see it happen, but I also like the idea that lucid dreaming is something special that only those who actively seek it find it, kind of like a selective "cool kids club "

Well, I knew people that were natural lucid dreamers, but for them it wasn't nothing, they weren't interested on it, for them it was just other type of dreams...

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I don't understand how people can't be interested. it seriously perplexes me. I've only really got into this phenomenon in the past few weeks but i think it's such an amazingly edifying one. Nobody seems to relate though when I try & explain it. I guess it's quite nice like that, like being in an exclusive night time coterie I just wish people wouldn't look at me like i'm mad when I try & tell them.. anyone else find this?

Thats a really interesting topic... I dont think I would enjoy lucid dreaming being part of everyday life, on the other hand, i think its something everyone should know about. I mean, being able to do whatever you want is awesome! Just would be pretty cool if my friends were a bit more open so they can see what they were missing. ;P

every one knows it's so true that those damn religious nuts will get on TV and give normal (by normal I mean not crazy) Christians a bad name and make lucidity a taboo

religious nut----

normal Christian in the eye of the world-------

Originally Posted by dreamingofdreaming

25,000 years ago was when dinosaurs went extinct (top of the food chain)

I really hope you're not serious