i never heard about lucid dreaming till like a year ago.

i read a forum post and the last sentence in that post was:

"... or you could learn to control your dreams (yes it is possible!)"

somehow that sentence stuck with me i had some deja vu moments before and was curious about dreams alrdy so a day later i typed "controlling dreams" into google and dreamviews popped up where i learned about lucid dreaming.

but outside of that i never heard of this topic so no it is not popular at all.

but yeah i think its mostly fear to be different why it is not popular.
i know i didnt tell anyone so far about it, cause i m pretty sure if it werent for certain experiences i would prolly dismiss it as well as 3rd age stuff if someone told me