Thread: Have you told anyone?

Well I am just wondering how many of us people are keeping this whole lucid dreaming thing a secret. I know I am! Well... my girlfriends knows but that's about it. You can select more than one if necessary.

I've been trying to get my girlfriend to try it for a while now.. she's just not into it like I am though. I've told almost everyone else I know too, including people at work... they think it's some sort of cult thing. Some people just don't understand I guess.

i told my dad JUST the lucid dream part. hed think iwas a stoner if i went into detail about wilds and stuff.

i told my friend eddie and hes trying to do it too.

i told my exgf(gf at the time) and she probably thinks its wierd but shes a loser so idgaf

thats it i think.

I tell anyone who asks, or anyone who gets to me when I'm in dreaming mood <.< (so everyone)

my dad is the only person I know who I can have long conversations with about dreaming.

ya I only told my parents and a couple of friends who didnt seem to care very much. THey pretty mich stop listening when i tell them about dream journals.

I tell everyone anytime the topic comes up. Spread the LD fun!!!

It frustrates me because during the day I want to share my experiences, but no one seems to be interested.
I think Lucid dreaming is a thing that you can't experience alone, you need someone else.
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Originally Posted by mrdeano

It frustrates me because during the day I want to share my experiences, but no one seems to be interested.
I think Lucid dreaming is a thing that you can't experience alone, you need someone else.
This is why this is THE perfect forum

Oh, I agree so much with you! That's exactly what I wanted to say too, but you just managed to find the right words to say it!

I have only told my Parents, Sister and one friend...They all looked at me in a way which seems like they think I'm crazy.

Sometimes I get annoyed when they dismiss it as being stupid and not true. But I no there all missing out.

I tell my family and friends sometimes. They don't get it, but that's okay. They'll soon learn...

When I tell people about lucid dreaming, I first ask them if they ever had a dream in which they realised they were dreaming. Most people answer yes and that way they look less weird at me when I tell them what lucid dreaming is.

kind of surprised by the results. I expected more "it's a secret"

I've kept it a complete secret.

All the worlds in my head are mine alone.

About half the people that I've brought it up to will just say, "Oh, yeah, I do that all the time. Since I was four I've done that. Oh, you're saying that it's some cool skill? I geuss I'm just good at it without practice. Speaking of the metaphysical, did you hear about how I can raise my own body temperature as well as the people near me? I'll show you some time....." The other half ask a few questions about it out of politeness, and since I can usually tell when they aren't that interested I'll give them short and courteous answers so that they can introduce another topic.

Meh. It's why I usually don't mention it much.

Conversation broke out with the topic on dreams in my computer class at school. One class-mate said that he knew about and had some trouble with it. I think it started out with a girl who was, I think, writing in her dream journal during class. We talked about it for a while and yeah.. it was a good time.

Originally Posted by Admiral41

Conversation broke out with the topic on dreams in my computer class at school. One class-mate said that he knew about and had some trouble with it. I think it started out with a girl who was, I think, writing in her dream journal during class. We talked about it for a while and yeah.. it was a good time.

That's interesting, I wish most classmates were more open to the subject!

People I know get akward when people talk about stuff they don't know about.
I've told some people, but I don't think I'd do it anymore.

I wish I knew someone who would talk to me about it IRL life though, I figure it would motivate me more.

2 of my teachers know and all my friends who pay attention know. I'm not ashamed about it, infact I encourage it!

I tell everyone I can.

I've never really gotten weird looks from anyone, but perhaps one day I will, haha.

most of my class know i lucid dream they all love the idea and it seems everyone has had a LD once, its great because everyone wants to tell me there favorite dream. its kinda funny, dreaming is something most people dont talk about and I notice people really open up if given the chance. it started when my West Civ. my teacher (im sure a old stoner) started talking about a differant reality and went into tribal men with that catus drug, he saw me staring at him because we'd talked about lucid dreaming before between me and him and he said "Mr. Dugan knows exactly what im talking about" i had the whole floor for 10 min. that class talking about flying, being able to play god. the mindset of it all, lol everyone was begging me to tell them how to do it. -that was really hard to do, ya know explain how to lucid dream in a minute. couldnt tell um much gave them the basic WILD. now anyway I hear lucid dreaming come up in the locker room and such, its great because everyone tends to turns to me and say "oh yea you know all about that stuff right?" few guys tell a cool dream they had. anyway its a great topic if you can cram how awesome it is in a few sentences before people lose interest. i had the whole floor of the class to help start the knowledge of it at my school

I tell a couple of my friends my dreams if theyre interesting, but I usually don't go too far into detail about lucids. Whenever I've tried describing lucids people seem to get lost in the terminology or I can't get the right words. I think for the most part the person has to be genuinely interested to understand. Otherwise you might just sound crazy xD

I've told a lot of my friends about it, but most people think it's crazy and can't really understand it. A lot of them smoke a LOT of weed, and don't remember any of their dreams, which is kind of sad.

But there are a few who I've talked t about it and they already knew about it. I don't think anyone except this girl I knew in high school has ever actually had a lucid dream though. Most of them watched Waking Life or something and got really interested, went and did a bunch of research, but never really put in the actual effort. I still think you basically have to keep a dream journal if you seriously want to have LDs. Maybe not if your a natural or have been interested in dreams your whole life, but most people spend absolutley none of their day thinking about dreaming, and if you don't you aren't gonna think about it when your asleep.

i made the mistake of telling some people who were a lot more closed-minded then I expected them to be, and now I either never talk about it or am very very careful about who I tell. Luckily my best friend thought it was awesome and tries to lucid dream all the time now, so it was nice that she was really open minded and cool about it. However, it doesn't happen that often for some reason, so I keep it on the down-low.

I've told my mom at Mcdonalds one night. And we got into this discussion about it and she said she had lucid dreams before, but, she would rather have normal dreams and have that feeling of surprise or fear.