Thread: How do people respond to knowing about lucid dreaming?

Funny this topic should come up. I often go on about LD'ing to my mrs but she can wind me up really bad. She totally does not believe they exist and says all they are are dreams where I "think" I am in control but they are still normal dreams. How frustrating is that analogy. I've told her she is completely wrong, I am just as conscious in my dream as I am in real life and the decisions I make while lucid are all concious decisions but Noooooo - according to her I'm still dreaming all this.

I've tried explaining the difference we all feel between a normal dream and an LD, I've explained how I know i'm dreaming and know in my dream that I am really lying next to her yet i'm asleep and dreaming but she says thats just part of the dream I am having.

How on earth do I convince her (I'm stubborn by the way - she WILL believe lol)

I've told her I'm going to talk to her non stop about it and give her dream signs to look out for. One day she'll wake up and say sorry, I just had an LD.

most people I try to talk to about it seem pretty uninterested. Maybe I can be more convincing when I have a LD to tell them about

They are all like : Yeah right...

A lot of the time they come back and tell me they had a lucid dream that night.

after my first unsuccessful attempt at trying to explain LD's to my mom and her thinking I was crazy, I had an unexpected min-breakthrough. She started talking about a dream she had and I mentioned that I also had a cool dream where I was flying and that I knew that I was dreaming and could control everything, and that this happened both today and the previous night- though she was convinced it was astral projection **mini facepalm**, o well, for now we agreed to disagree. I'm happy that now she at least has a slight idea.

^ like that

Originally Posted by yuriythebest

after my first unsuccessful attempt at trying to explain LD's to my mom and her thinking I was crazy, I had an unexpected min-breakthrough. She started talking about a dream she had and I mentioned that I also had a cool dream where I was flying and that I knew that I was dreaming and could control everything, and that this happened both today and the previous night- though she was convinced it was astral projection **mini facepalm**, o well, for now we agreed to disagree. I'm happy that now she at least has a slight idea.

She thought lucid dreaming was crazy, but that astral projection was a plausible explanation? Oh, my I don't envy you that situation hehehe

I told my good friend about it and he thinks it's awesome, he kept a dream journal for a little bit and I think tried some reality checks and tried to WILD a couple times. But he's obviously not as dedicated as me cause as far as I know he hasn't gone any further with it.

That's the problem with most people that find it interesting and want to give it a try, they have no dedication or patience and ultimatley give up or forget about it