Thread: Parents think LDing is an occult...

My family and friends think it could be dangerous, but don't think much of it. They're more about 'what's the point of it?' than 'it's dangerous'.

Originally Posted by Demara

My family and friends think it could be dangerous, but don't think much of it. They're more about 'what's the point of it?' than 'it's dangerous'.

My friends are like this. Heres a sample conversation:
Girl: Why would you want to LD?
Me: Why *wouldn't* you want to. You can do anything you want!
girl: Anything?
Me: Really! Anything! You can fly, you can go to different planets, you can shapeshift. Your wildest fantasies can come true!
Girl: Its dirty isn't it.
Me: .....
Girl: Keep me out of your lucid dreams please.

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

My friends are like this. Heres a sample conversation:
Girl: Why would you want to LD?
Me: Why *wouldn't* you want to. You can do anything you want!
girl: Anything?
Me: Really! Anything! You can fly, you can go to different planets, you can shapeshift. Your wildest fantasies can come true!
Girl: Its dirty isn't it.
Me: .....
Girl: Keep me out of your lucid dreams please.

lol yeah there are certain people I'd never tell.

Originally Posted by Xedan

lol yeah there are certain people I'd never tell.

I got a lot of strange looks/ questions when I read etwold

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

I got a lot of strange looks/ questions when I read etwold

Same. But then again, I get strange looks for reading 1984 by choice. So I'm used to it.

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

My friends are like this. Heres a sample conversation:
Girl: Why would you want to LD?
Me: Why *wouldn't* you want to. You can do anything you want!
girl: Anything?
Me: Really! Anything! You can fly, you can go to different planets, you can shapeshift. Your wildest fantasies can come true!
Girl: Its dirty isn't it.
Me: .....
Girl: Keep me out of your lucid dreams please.

Lulz. You should dream about her, just for assuming the worst.

Originally Posted by Mario92

Lulz. You should dream about her, just for assuming the worst.

I sometimes talk about LDing, and when this girl overhears, she'll usually ask "What do you do in your lucid dreams?"
I always reply with a wink "Oh.. I'm not sure you'd want to know"

Originally Posted by Mario92

Lulz. You should dream about her, just for assuming the worst.

Wouldn't that be like the ultimate mindfuck?

If anything, everyone around me that I'd told has become more interested. My
friends and family tell me about their dreams more often. They haven't taken to
lucid dreaming in particular, but they do pay more attention to what they
dream of since I'd made such a big deal of it.

To everyone who's having trouble with meddlesome relatives on this issue, may
you persevere.

Originally Posted by Invader

If anything, everyone around me that I'd told has become more interested. My
friends and family tell me about their dreams more often. They haven't taken to
lucid dreaming in particular, but they do pay more attention to what they
dream of since I'd made such a big deal of it.

To everyone who's having trouble with meddlesome relatives on this issue, may
you persevere.

Well I just ignor them

Originally Posted by Xedan

Well I just ignor them

lol yea, what are they gonna do? ground you every time you try to stick your finger through your hand? they can't stop any of us, AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Originally Posted by The Silver Bullet

When I told my dad about Lucid Dreaming he said most people who do it do drugs.

hahaha, he must have visited DV chat

lol, yeah. DV isn't a place for the impressionable

Parents don't even need to know about it... if I was LDing when I was a teenager I wouldn't have talked about it except to certain people. Some things are like a private treasure that most people wouldn't even understand to begin with and will only give you a hard time about.

No reason to throw pearls before swine.... they'll only eat them and crap them out without ever understanding the value of them. (Im not calling anybody's parents swine mind you... it's only a metaphor!)

I've found that most people can't understand you if you're a creative person. Most people don't understand getting in touch with your own inner voices and shutting out the distractions of the external world... for ordinary folk those distractions are all they have. And I've also learned people really don't like to see you doing something they can't do or understand. Especially if there's nothing to show for it that they can see. Lucid dreaming is an ability beyond what ordinary people even believe they can achieve, so I think it irks them to hear you talking about it.

My philosophy is, why do they even need to know? But then Im a pretty private person anyway, content to sit quietly and think about stuff. Most people where I work spend all their spare time yakking on their cell phones or texting each other.... like they're terrified of having more than 2 seconds of being stuck with their own thoughts. Heh.. the other day one girl even said when it got kind of quiet "I hate when it gets quiet and you can hear your own self think!"

I just shook my head and smiled.

It's like Plato's cave allegory.... if you escape from the cave where everybody lives and can only see shadows on the wall of what's going past the cave entrance, and you come back and tell them about the wonders you've seen and that the shadows aren't all there is but are only images of more complex things - then they'll just kill you for being different and suggesting that you know more than they do about things.

You should try the search button

I've never mentioned anything about LDing to my parents, and never will. I keep it to myself. PS - They can't possibly make you less aware in real life just because of lucid dreaming ... Can they ?

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

Thats handy. I'm really lucky because my 2nd cousin is basically a pyschologist, and when I told him I was lucid dreaming he went on about how great it was in front of my dad. Problem solved.

Woooh! Psychologist for the win!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, I told my dad about it, and he was like 'Whatever'. . My brother is somewhat interested. He actually got a lucid once, thanx to my pestering XD. My aunt(acting as my mother, practically), who's the most religious in my family, says she's not exactly totally sure it's ok. She openly admitted she had no evidence, that it was just a feeling. So she's not concerned enough to hinder my attempts, which I appreciate.

I think this is a situation where 90% of us being introverts helps out.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

My philosophy is, why do they even need to know?

Well, i wanted to keep it to myself, but when they found my DJ, and saw something about lucid dreaming (which is, what I think a total invasion of my privacy) they asked me about, so I had to tell them.

Also, I am religious too, my whole family is, but I don't believe God has any problem with lucid dreaming. I think it's more of a control thing, my mom has always been a control freak in my life, how my hair looks, how I dress, what I do during my spare time, who I hang out with, and it annoys the shit out of me, this is MY life, and I don't think she understands. And my dad, who has no problem with it, won't listen to me, because he thinks I'm being disrespectful to my mom. I'm suffocating under my parent's control, they think I'm some 5 year old, and they can't accept the idea that I'm growing up, and I'm becoming more independent.

80% of the christian families in America are like this, or the parental roles gender reversed. All you can do is suffer threw it until you turn of age, on my 18th birthday i literally blew out the candles on my cake and walked out the door. I lived with a friend for a little while then his parents tried being mine, and had me doing all their shit while i they laid in bed all day, then i was homeless for a year, then i slowly with difficulty got jobs and made my own way. The land of the free isn't so just for the children that are subjected to their parents, lets face it, a large percent of the older generation are fools that don't see any value in computers, cellphones, or anything integrated into our generation. So the children are forced to live under scrutiny and criticism for being a part of a generation that is different than the previous one.

I remember when i was 12 i was whipped and grounded for playing a video game for an hour everyday and was given a lecture about how i'm lazy and irresponsible for it... I was fucking 12 and it's not the "back in the old days" days ANYMORE! I was told that you can't make money playing video games.....hmm parents were wrong on that one, i was also told that i would go blind and get fat from playing video games and watching cartoons, not "too much" but that i did it at all. WRONG AGAIN!

My point is there's no way you're going to change how your parents think, because it's who they are and how they were raised best to let the lying dog lay and just let that generation die out. At least that's my opinion

Because the supernatural and paranormal make me cringe, I've taken to explaining lucid dreaming in more naturalistic terms to people who are curious, so that I can separate myself AND lucid dreaming from being pigeonholed into the "new age" category. Not to diss on anyone that believes in the supernatural, paranormal, or new age things, of course. They're just not to my liking.

My mom thinks it is weird, so I just don't talk to her about it haha.

Originally Posted by lVlerciless

Well, i wanted to keep it to myself, but when they found my DJ, and saw something about lucid dreaming (which is, what I think a total invasion of my privacy) they asked me about, so I had to tell them.

Also, I am religious too, my whole family is, but I don't believe God has any problem with lucid dreaming. I think it's more of a control thing, my mom has always been a control freak in my life, how my hair looks, how I dress, what I do during my spare time, who I hang out with, and it annoys the shit out of me, this is MY life, and I don't think she understands. And my dad, who has no problem with it, won't listen to me, because he thinks I'm being disrespectful to my mom. I'm suffocating under my parent's control, they think I'm some 5 year old, and they can't accept the idea that I'm growing up, and I'm becoming more independent.

Until you are 18, you are keeping a dream journal online. Problem solved

Originally Posted by MementoMori

I was told that you can't make money playing video games.....hmm parents were wrong on that one, i was also told that i would go blind and get fat from playing video games and watching cartoons, not "too much" but that i did it at all. WRONG AGAIN!

Spoiler for response:

This. I am 115 pounds at 14 and a half. in high school. Lighter than most chicks, yet still packed with muscle. Play on comptuer/games 4 hours one weekdays and up to 16 on weekends. I even got a spot into the top seeds in MLG. I regret not following up on that. The problem was that we were sponsored by Dr. Pepper. My teammate was a complete jerk and it was ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous his temper. I ended up saying screw it, and couldn't find a good player to make my own team. He could not find one who would put up with his temper.

Also, the staff were complete dicks and one guy was literally trying to screw me over.

He later got fired from his position and now works with entertainment/commentary. No longer directing. emailing the new director the competition is absolute crap with no good people and they are probably not going to be doing that branch of MLG anymore.

Now it is only 4v4. (This was Halo 3 by the way)