Thread: LD'ing not as popular

I actually had two conversations about lucid dreaming today. That's like a record for me. One of the people at my school, who I know pretty well but I'm not particularly close to, had a few lucid dreams. Then the other one was with my mom and two brothers. We were (or rather, I was) wondering if it was possible to induce nightmares, and the conversation went to lucid dreaming with a bit of guidance. (Unrelated: I really like that smiley. )

Hidden it is possible to induce nightmares, there was a post on it a while ago. I remember one of the users said that if you want it that badly, get 5-6 hours of sleep, wake up, and look an an image that disturbs you for a LONG time. Afterwards go back to bed and you should have a nightmare. One user said to find a poster with a scary image and attach it to your ceiling to wake up to.

Why would you want to induce nightmares?

Originally Posted by mysterious dreamer

Why would you want to induce nightmares?

Maybe he wants to face his fear of something thus he induces the nightmare, overcomes it and doesn't have the same problem in life

Or maybe he just enjoys the excitement of it.

Originally Posted by mysterious dreamer

Why would you want to induce nightmares?

When you've had so many LDs and have done just about everything you can conceive of in them, trust me, you'll want to induce a nightmare too!

It's on my list of goals, just got a few more things to do first while lucid

The reason I want to is essentially that I'll know it's not real so won't be scared but will find it fascinating to observe the different style dreamscape and fun to overpower whatever is nightmarish and/or threatening.

I wouldn't say lucid dreaming was ever "popular", per se. I mean, I first learned about it back when I was a senior in high school...which was back in '06. On my final day of class, my English teacher (who was awesome) told the class about it. I'll bet anything that out of that entire class, I was the only one who ever went on to pursue lucid dreaming.

But then again, can you really blame people for giving up on LDing so early on? It's not something attributable to simple laziness - I've personally found that the more I actively try to LD, the more sleep I lose, and considering the average American only gets 7 hours of sleep (which is almost not enough), you can't really fault people on not wanting to invest their valuable sleep time.

Actually come to think of it I'm kind of glad lucid dreaming isn't popular now. It just makes me feel slightly more unique and to be honest I don't think very many people deserve to even expirience lucid dreaming.

CrescentFox: Ouch, that's harsh. I think that if you're willing to work for it, you deserve to experience a LD (I suppose there might be some exceptions). But I agree about feeling more unique, even though it doesn't count for much in society.

DreamQueen: Really? I wish I were at that point. I haven't even flown yet. Every time I've become lucid I've tried to go to a certain place, a field with a few tall trees that I thought up awhile ago while trying to imagine the perfect place to fly. I'm thinking next time I'll just take off where ever I happen to be.

Lezen: You have a point. Personally, I've found that trying to lucid dream has motivated me to get to bed early so I'm more likely to succeed. I used to hate going to bed, because it meant the day was over and I would soon have to wake up for school. Now I still hate knowing I have to wake up, but there's a pretty bright silver lining.

Originally Posted by CrescentFox

and to be honest I don't think very many people deserve to even expirience lucid dreaming.

Really? What is it about them that should determine whether or not they deserve the experience?

Originally Posted by CrescentFox

Hidden it is possible to induce nightmares, there was a post on it a while ago. I remember one of the users said that if you want it that badly, get 5-6 hours of sleep, wake up, and look an an image that disturbs you for a LONG time. Afterwards go back to bed and you should have a nightmare. One user said to find a poster with a scary image and attach it to your ceiling to wake up to.

-tries to imagine an image that's disturbing enough to induce a nightmare- o.0 No thanks.

Why would you want to induce nightmares?

I was actually just curious. As to why someone else would want to induce a nightmare, I don't know. Both facing fears and excitement (although nightmares are rarely exciting for me, just scary) can be achieved through a lucid dream.