Thread: Convincing friends to learn to LD

i got two friends interensted. but that kinda died out after a while.

but they still come up to me and go "are you dreaming?" for a joke

I got a friend into it but she doesn't come on this site very much. She has had one lucid dream since joining but I think it was from reading so much about it and ect.
She doesn't really strive to learn how but is definitely interested

I tell many of my close friends and relatives about it and they are all very interested. A couple of my good friends eve tried it out for a while but they all quit and failed because of the workload haha. In my opinion the best thing to do, like Unelias said, is to tell them the facts and also show them dreamviews because if they ever want to actually get into it they have a ton of information on how to.

After talking about lucid dreaming, one of my friends became interested in dream interpretation (started a journal for that purpose), another claimed expertise in non-lucid dream incubation (she prefers non-lucid, 100% immersive dreams), and another took it as a potential afterlife.

I've tried getting my friends to learn Lucid draming!
Most my friends think it sounds amazing.. though they are far too lazy to learn it!
Most my friends cant be bothered to write down thier dreams in the morning, let alone RC! And some of my friends think it sounds 'weird' xD

One of my friens however thinks its amazing and shes working on remembering her dreams better and RCing

I've gotten a few friends interested in it. None of them have actually pursued it to any real degree. Normally they are just interested for a week or two, then forget all about it.

Originally Posted by I Am the Walrus

tell them that they are wasting.. what was it? 1/3 of their life?

yes 8/24

they can do whatever they want in a LD

A quarter to a half of their lives in sleep.

Tsk, tsk tsk...

Originally Posted by Abra

After talking about lucid dreaming, one of my friends became interested in dream interpretation (started a journal for that purpose), another claimed expertise in non-lucid dream incubation (she prefers non-lucid, 100% immersive dreams), and another took it as a potential afterlife.

I almost got a friend into it, but he's wiccan, and we started having almost a contest, to see which one could convince the other to join their "thing".

Him: I'm Saggitarius, so my metal is tin and my element is fire.

Me: Well, I can do whatever the hell I want, no matter what I am.

Originally Posted by Dream scientist

Him: I'm Saggitarius, so my metal is tin and my element is fire.

Me: Well, I can do whatever the hell I want, no matter what I am.

Win. :>

Originally Posted by Abra

Win.

Originally Posted by slash112

i got two friends interensted. but that kinda died out after a while.

but they still come up to me and go "are you dreaming?" for a joke

Hey makes a good RC time

when I first learned to LD I told many people about it, but soon realised most either gave me blank stares and stuff, so now I don't bother to mix my dream life with my RL life, the internetz has more than enough people to talk to about LD's.

I've gotten 3 referrals since November, all of them real life friends. They all kind of gave up on it after a while. A couple of my friends are somewhat interested, and listen about it (several mornings, I could be found writing my dreams down on loose leaf paper until I could get to a computer) but never really wanted to learn.

Which leads us to a conclusion that the curious and those who are deeply motivated to learn will search us out anyways. Like many other things, I personally think lucid dreaming can be considered a form of calling. You don't convert people or lure them to try it. Of course subtle advertising is always good, but LD is still seen as supernatural or anti-religious in some circles. Maybe telling that it is purely explainable by normal logic and scientific approach would do the greatest trick.

Biggest problem is the lazyness of people and the need for immediate success ( read : impatience )

Damn our modern society.

some people just want to rest their mind, it is understandable.

Yes! two of my best friends are now in the club!! my mother had a couple of LDs aswell I preach it to everybody i meet and most people are interested though they are rarely patient enough to actually keep it going, but the reward is worth all effort! as you know fellow dreamers

Originally Posted by Unelias

Which leads us to a conclusion that the curious and those who are deeply motivated to learn will search us out anyways. Like many other things, I personally think lucid dreaming can be considered a form of calling. You don't convert people or lure them to try it.

Agree with this completely.

I guess it's like if one of my friends tried to get me to take up Origami. Simple fact is, it's never going to happen, no matter how much they sell it to me as fun.

I WISH I could convince my brother to give it a go. He has suffered from horrible nightmares for most of his adult life (he was first on the scene at a brutal drunk-driving boating accident which none of the boat's occupants survived back when he was in his early 20s) and has suffered from depression and a tendency to "over-medicate" with alcohol before bedtime as a result.

... I've talked to him in the past about keeping a dream journal and trying to tackle his nightmares head on, "and by opposing, end them" (thanks Will) but I think he's just too afraid to examine his dreams too closely, for fear of what he may find.

Any suggestions on how I could reassure him that this would HELP him with his nightmares, as opposed to make them worse?

Originally Posted by Unelias

Which leads us to a conclusion that the curious and those who are deeply motivated to learn will search us out anyways.

I totally agree.. it takes a certain kind of person to train him/herself to LD, and that kind of person will probably naturally discover it.

I have tried, however, with some friends that seem like they would be good at lucid dreaming and be able to work hard for it. It turned out I was wrong, though.. :/