Thread: Have you told anyone?

The first time I read about lucid dreaming, I thought it was a supernatural phenomenon, and didn't totally buy into it. Its understandable that most people would feel this way.

I believe that many people who are interested in LDs think there is some supernatural element to it, when really...it's all just in your head (in a good way!)

I have shared my fascination with LDs with many of my friends, but I have always been sure to explain that it is a real phenomenon and can be scientifically explained.

Actually my friend told me he was able to control his dreams sometime, then I did some research about controlling our dream and found this forum, but he's not interested in how to have these dreams and what they are. He just get those and enjoy (I hate him lol).

I told my parents but now they think I'm crazy.

Originally Posted by Bolero

The first time I read about lucid dreaming, I thought it was a supernatural phenomenon, and didn't totally buy into it. Its understandable that most people would feel this way.

I believe that many people who are interested in LDs think there is some supernatural element to it, when really...it's all just in your head (in a good way!)

I have shared my fascination with LDs with many of my friends, but I have always been sure to explain that it is a real phenomenon and can be scientifically explained.

I got the impression that relatively few people who are interested in lucid dreaming think it's something supernatural. People who are serious about it (or are just curious) will soon find out that there's nothing unnatural about it.

Unless you meant that a lot of people who hear about it for the first time are interested because they think it's something supernatural... Although I'm not sure I'd agree with that either.

i told my dad he laughtet and dont believed it..hes like "yeah last night i got a dream with 3 brasil girls but the dog woke me up and i was angry..haha" then i told some friends they did not care much...very strange that the people dont see the possibilities..its like beeing in the matrix..the coolest thing ever...

i told my girlfirend from the beginning of my practise and first she told me thats not possible blahblah but now when i tell her about my approve she starts to believe and maybe try it by herself...

Originally Posted by shokomann

..very strange that the people dont see the possibilities..its like beeing in the matrix..the coolest thing ever...

this pretty much sums up the entire thread. Very cool, yet very... now it could be my lamentable knowledge of the english language, but I just have trouble describing that feeling. sad? - in that you can't share the joy with relatives? maybe at least in the beginning, later that goes away. The frustration of not being able to tell anyone? is that it? or "the secret" that's cause ppl think you're weird/nuts and are only able to share in places such as this, and the consequences of having to live your, presumably, entire life this way, hiding your "beliefs", as people of different religions, political opinions and of unconventional sexual orientations have been doing for ages- and just as all of the aforementioned gained at least some form of recognition in at least some parts of the world, our "ways of life" are so alien to the general populous they aren't even aware it exists, so general acceptance is very far off indeed- could be tomorrow that some public figures admit they're LD-ers and educate the masses, or could be generations, or thousands of years (if humanity survives that long), or indeed never.

However, unlike religion/politics/etc, this form of life is not and never will be under threat, and because of the Internet the community of LD-ers will grow and grow, hopefully support groups, nay, bad choice of words, since we do not require support- conventions/gatherings, yeah, that's more appropriate- anyhow meetings/conventions will hopefully begin to take place, in various countries and arranged over the internet, so people can come and share their experiences- no doubt if discovered they might seem cult-like by the media and ridiculed, but what new idea wasn't? then I see public debate, and eventually, hopefully acceptance.
Till then I'll continue to LD and not give a f**k about telling anyone and be just a little more "lucid" then my compatriots

Originally Posted by Hidden

I got the impression that relatively few people who are interested in lucid dreaming think it's something supernatural. People who are serious about it (or are just curious) will soon find out that there's nothing unnatural about it.

Unless you meant that a lot of people who hear about it for the first time are interested because they think it's something supernatural... Although I'm not sure I'd agree with that either.

I meant the latter, those who hear about it for the first time believing it is supernatural. In my experience, everyone I have shared with thought it was supernatural until I told them its just a way of tricking your own brain 'awake'.

Originally Posted by Bolero

I meant the latter, those who hear about it for the first time believing it is supernatural. In my experience, everyone I have shared with thought it was supernatural until I told them its just a way of tricking your own brain 'awake'.

Were they still interested after you told them that, or were they just like, "Oh. So, did you see what was on TV last night? blah blah blah blah..."

I actually forced my friend to do a WBTB (we were having a sleepover and I set an alarm) and told her how to DILD, DEILD (from a non-lucid where you feel the dream fading out and realize that you were just dreaming), and RC. She had a lucid that same night, but said she didn't do anything in the dream aside from thinking, "Yay! Now I can do whatever I want." She didn't seem all that excited, not like I was after my first lucid. Then again, it took me a whole month to get mine. I think part of the excitement of LDing is discovering and accomplishing it for yourself.