Thread: Have you told anyone?

The only one that really knows of my lucid dreaming interest is my girlfriend, but she´s like "what´s that good for?". She´s one of those that rarely remember her dreams, but I´m sure that if she tried she would get better pretty fast. I bet she´s thinking "why can´t he stop talking about his freakin dreams all the time!". She´s very sceptic towards all things supernatural and "wierd", I can´t even talk about ghosts because then she get nightmares she claims. I´ll talk her into trying LD eventually though

When I was reading Stephen LaBerge´s book about lucid dreaming I got some questions about it from my family, but I think they were just trying to be polite. They didn´t really care.

The fact that most people just doesn´t seem to care when they hear about lucid dreaming suprises me. I mean I´ve fantisised about flying and doing all this cool stuff you can do in a lucid dream since I was a baby! Why do you think that some people just don´t find it interesting?

yeh i tell anyone when the subject comes up but im not too enthusiastic as most people are like "yeah i had a dream the other day when i was like that" when they are blatently lieing. my best friend and I have a partnership hobby of it thoughand i tell my family with pleasure.

I really don't see why not.


If I actually had Lucid Dreams, I'd be all over everyone with my dreams.
But so far, I tell people about lucid dreaming if the subject comes up. If they are interested, I might explain the WILd and DILD shortly.

Usually, that ends with them saying that they have had that kind of dreams before, and then continue to tell me what awesome shit they did.

Then I shut up because I haven't had any awesomes yet.

Seem like everyone around me is dead...

They can't seem to understand the fact they basically wasting each night where they could be doing anything they want. They act like it a lame flash game or something small...They should be treating it as a skill like drawing which can have great outcomes.

Guess everyone around me are too simple minded to understand.

Originally Posted by Zelkova

Seem like everyone around me is dead...

They can't seem to understand the fact they basically wasting each night where they could be doing anything they want. They act like it a lame flash game or something small...They should be treating it as a skill like drawing which can have great outcomes.

Guess everyone around me are too simple minded to understand.

How very presumptuous and simple-minded of you to judge people based on whether their interests revolve around what you find interesting.

Originally Posted by Zelkova

Seem like everyone around me is dead...

They can't seem to understand the fact they basically wasting each night where they could be doing anything they want. They act like it a lame flash game or something small...They should be treating it as a skill like drawing which can have great outcomes.

Guess everyone around me are too simple minded to understand.

I wouldn't call them simple minded. I'd just say that they're too ORDINARY. Too ordinary to understand. Too ordinary to get something so cool and extraordinary in their lives.

I wouldn't say ordinary either, i'd say people are not open minded about things like dreams, which most people barely know anything about anyway. People fear the unknown, and im usually called a hippy when I talk about lucid dreaming, which is always very amusing.

Originally Posted by yellowlight

I wouldn't call them simple minded. I'd just say that they're too ORDINARY. Too ordinary to understand. Too ordinary to get something so cool and extraordinary in their lives.

I'd go with "less conscious, having less awareness of their surroundings and being unfamiliar with their own mind".

Yeah at first I told my friends and my mom about the amazing LD-s I had but my mom made an insane face at me jokingly and stuff and acted like I was insane, my friends were basically the same though some were polite- one even almost gained lucidity but didn't. At first I was very quite upset that I couldn't share my great experiences with them, however I am now okay with it and don't talk about it except on the interwebz so I think everybody assumes I just got bored with it and stopped or something.

I am not frustrated with em because being so would be the same as being frustrated with video game characters for having bad AIm or with DC's for that matter. Each form of consciousness/reality has it's own rules.

i have only told to my best friend...

I voted only my best friend, and that's my Mum Apart from her I haven't told anyone else, I don't feel the need to.

Wouldn't you say it is a little... "simple minded"... to not care about wasting 1/3 of your entire lifetime (8 out of 24 hours) doing nothing at all ? I'll tell my family when i have an awesome !

EDIT: of course, I'm overgeneralizing, only half of that is "useful" REM sleep ^-^

I've told my family and wife, but that is all. My brother thought it was cool and tried to get some LD's working but he never could and gave up.

I think I've mentioned it to some other friends in passing, but we were on the topics of dreams and they moved on without interest.

I've mentioned it. I told a friend about it about two years ago and he got interested. I talked to him about astral projection too, but he seemed skeptical about that. He said it sounded like some kind of cult thing.

I think to not care that you can do anything you want is uhhh... well maybe they're aliens from another planet or something as i've said in another post. andus lucid dreamers are the only real life forms here.

how about that?

Everyone is always telling me about their dreams and asking me about them.
I'm getting quite sick of explaining and usually avoid the topic all-together now.

My dad knows I can lucid dream (he used to be a natural). My grandparents know I'm a member on this site. I've had 3 friends sign up for this site;Sjord, Khatool, and JJill55. I'm fairly certain Sjord's stopped posting, JJill55 probably only posted once or twice, and Khatool got banned for being a year underage. I told one friend (rather, she asked what I was writing). Turns our she knew about lucid dreams, but never invested the time. She's always been courteous enough to ask about it though when I'm writing. Some people think it's ridiculous. At one point, I had to use my free time at school to type my dreams into my dream journal. Almost every day, this one girl would ask me "typing your dreams again?" Drawing out the dream, trying to make it condescending. I once answered "Yes. Am I really so far above you that that's the only thing you can make fun of me for?". She answered "pretty much, yes"

I was telling my mom about it today...

How'd that go?

I tell people who I think might also be interested in it.

Yeah, I haven't really told anyone that I am currently trying to get lucid dreams, and I usually approach the subject by saying, "So, there's this really cool thing I've heard of..." If they respond well to that, I'll probably tell them that I try to lucid dream and induction methods and stuff. I've only told this to one or two people though.

My dad just told me he lucid dreams sometimes. I said I do it all the time.

I did a presentation about it in front of my entire English class. Before that I had never mentioned it to anyone.

I still haven't told my family, but it's not something I would be interested in discussing with them anyway.

I believe you should tell anyone that is willing to hear it. Lucid Dreaming is perfectly natural we are just on the look out for superstitious people that would think we flipped our bippy.

I don't advertise my hobby, but its something my friends know I'm interested in and who cares about anyone else?