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

They believe me, tell me they want to try it, and give up after the first night.

Originally Posted by Hollings

They believe me, tell me they want to try it, and give up after the first night.

Same.

Depends on the person, honestly. Their general mindframe and beliefs, and also past experience with sleep, dreams, and any natural lucid dreams they've had. Some of my closer friends have expressed either having had them, or not having had them but believed me 100% (they know me enough to know that if I talk about something it's legit). Others I've briefly mentioned it to commented on their own past experiences with natural lucids and/or lucidity from nightmares and how much it freaked them out, but I dropped the topic because they were clearly not very open minded because of these past experiences and/or personal beliefs. So yea, depends. Generally, people I have brought it up to have responded very positively. I think a lot of people DEILD and/or get random DILDs.

Depening on the person, they act interested or are genuinely interested. My dad acts interested, my mom sometimes really is. My friends are estatic over it, but wouldn't go so far as to try to induce lucids. I mean, if they're into it, then they are, but you can't force them to get into it >.>

Some friends will say, "theres no way, how could anyone possibly prove you could do that in your sleep? Ive never dreamt in my life" and some will passively say "oh, thats cool"
One friend of mine actually started a dream journal, but stopped after a day or two.

yeah i had a hard time opening up to people about this subject. i stopped practicing for a couple of years and hadnt told anyone. once i started again, i eventually told me girlfriend. she seems to be more and more interested everytime i tell her about it but hasnt actually tried yet.

my mom seems interested and idk about my dad. if i still had my old friend he would probably be interested. he use to tell me about these "random voices" before fallin asleep (hypnagogia)

but yeah my gf definetly knows, my mom kinda knows and my brother and dad i dont think know.

I've had a generally negative experience with this. When I first stated LD-ing it seemed so amazing and exciting that I just had to tell people. Though most responded like I was weird or crazy, and the best responses were lukewarm. Now I have many IM contacts and also DV that I can talk to about dreams, so I'm ok with not sharing it with people around me, as long as I get to share it with someone anyone I'm fine

I've only told one friend. He believed me when I said it was possible, and was fasinated when I told him of some of the research done on it, but he didn't try any much himself.
He likes to tease me about it whever I mention it now, but I guess he'd stop if/when I get any good at it :p

Well, when I told my dad a few months ago he acted interested. And we had a very long discussion about dreaming last night (where i got to show off all my knowledge about sleep and dreaming that i learned from this site; he was impressed )
My mom thinks I'm crazy.
My cousin and brother LOVE the idea. They want to try it SO badly but they're young and they dont have enough patience...
The friend that got me into Lucid Dreaming ended up quitting....
And the rest of my friends give me weird looks....

Many people I tell seem to take lucidity as a joke, which is very frustrating >.> A lot of my friends(mostly the female ones, I've noticed) will listen to me and tell me of their run-ins with lucid dreaming or things related to it - waking up in sleep paralysis, DEILDs, etc. I've only convinced one person to actively attempt lding. A few times there's been an influx of people who say that they get lucid dreams all the time(though I find it hard to believe them...)

Whenever I TRY to tell my friends about it, they look at me like I'm some gothic freak, lol. So I really don't bother anymore. *Sigh* they're missing out.

i'm lovin your quote Elucive. i bet most people would be intersted if they had a really nice high level lucid.

we all just have to be greatful that we are actually interested in ultimate freedom. i just cant believe that people wouldnt think much about it. its all so confusing.

but really, i dont care to try to make anyone practice lucid dreaming. im just glad that i can do it.

Most people I tell to, try it. yay!

Sooner or later I tell every one in my old timer friend group about LD. One of them tried it the night I told about the thing. He succeeded in the first try and came to tell me about it very enthusiastically and it was a good one too. But after that he never mentioned about it. It was like he completely forgot the experience and I found it very strange at that time. Not everyone gets addicted with the first succesfull try. People seem to have other things that they find cooler than LD.

Some of my friends are natural lucid dreamers and others think I'm a crazy person.

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