Thread: Parents think LDing is an occult...

My mom thinks it is making me unaware and not present in my life (how ironic!), that it is in the way of my education (I have very good grades, one of the best average of my school, over 90% so wtf?). She says that it stops me from resting myself and that when she goes to sleep all she wants is to sleep. I was never tired in a dream so there's basicly no reason why I would want to be sleeping when I'm full of energy.

My dad thinks its a good thing but that I should wait. He is in some unknown religion with his dad and a bunch of other people. They believe that dreams are created by negative spirits and everything and so that in lucid dreams, I must be VERY careful and try to speak with my outter spirit (yes, outer). But lucid dreaming cannot be dangerous because people in normal dreams are even less careful and they never die.

My brothers simply ask me not to talk about lucid dream because they "don't care"

The few friends I told found it funny and weird which they completly expected from me and didn't show much interest.

I really don't understand. Its not that weird. When I first heard of it, I had no doubt, just lots of excitement. It had actually been my life long dream to enter another realm in which I could do anything and there, it came to life. It imprsesses me that some people can just shrug it off. Whatever, we're special! Well... I really like how unique it makes us but I'm a very outgoing person (with my friends and sometimes with strangers if I feel confortable with them) and so its very hard for me not to talk about it.

I really want to but I figured that talking about lucid dreams made them not want to hear about my dreams anymore. Yes, I love dreams so much that I'm always speaking about my dreams. They think I eat something before going to bed that's making get all these dreams. I say that its not it but I don't tell them that its 'cause I practiced my dream recall.

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.

I know how it can drive a person nuts. Hands down, your family only have rights over your education, and this does not include culture and beliefs.

Funny thing is my dad and brother knew about LD before I did.. A while ago, My brother told me that his friends dad was into Lucid Dreaming and that was the first time I had ever heard about it.
My brother used to be interested in it, but now that I have them and used to talk about them all the time, he doesnt seem interested anymore, and gets annoyed when I mention it now.
My dad says sometimes he has dreams where he can fly around and control it..he didnt know that it was Lucid dreaming, so he thinks its neat that I have them too.
My mom seems interested when I talk about it.. but doesnt really seem to understand the concept.. I used to talk about it all the time to my family when I first started having them, but now I feel like theyre sick of hearing about it so I try to not talk about it as much.
I used to always tell my boyfriend about it too, but now I dont as much cause I think he thinks its weird lol.. I dont really tell anyone else though, because I dunno what they would think about it..I wish I could though.

Thanks guys, my parents aren't bad people, I just hate how they try to control every little thing. I still love them, it's just I hate getting in arguments over little things.

Also, I pretty much agree with you cookiedough, people just don't know what the're missing, I guess.

Originally Posted by lVlerciless

Thanks guys, my parents aren't bad people, I just hate how they try to control every little thing. I still love them, it's just I hate getting in arguments over little things.

I get what you mean. My parents are not as bad as you said but my mom is still pretty much a control freak. But I still love her, lol! Family love, you can't resist it!

Originally Posted by lVlerciless

Also, I pretty much agree with you cookiedough, people just don't know what the're missing, I guess.

Yes, but it's actually WEIRD. I find it weirder than paranormal things. It's as if there is some sort of magnetic force which makes them dislike lucid dreams.

People can talk about very boring things that people don't care about but the listener pretends that they care and they just talk and stuff. When you talk about lucid dreams (well, for me at least) they directly tell me that they don't care and that I should just stop talking about it. And then they go on talking about something I don't care but I don't tell them to stop talking. It's weird how lucid dreams are so hated by people who normally don't even know about them. I mean, if someone talks about ghosts, other people don't tell them to stop talking. They listen.

Oh my god, do you people live in nunneries or something? O.O

I mean really... dreaming is fricken natural! LOL! Like what the hell how is being aware in a dream witchcraft xD I think I would DIE around people like that.

I haven't told anyone yet. I kinda mentioned it at school but no one cares. My mom wouldn't care either, I know that for sure, but I feel that LDing is something private. And I find it kind of akward to talk about stuff like that for some reason. But I don't mind typing it out. There's no emotion in typing. Hence why I post here xD

I actually have I friend who I could probably tell about it. Considering we actually did used to practice witchcraft.

Originally Posted by Xedan

I actually have I friend who I could probably tell about it. Considering we actually did used to practice witchcraft.

Nice...
me too, sorta. Not really, but we really believed in magic and we wanted to find out about the magic world. We even drank an inisibility potion my friend found on a website. I don't know what he put in it but I wanted to vomit (which i didn't or else we wouldn't have become invisible... which we didnt)

Originally Posted by lVlerciless

I hate getting in arguments over little things.

You should meet my family vs. my mom. LOL

Invisibility potion? Really?

Originally Posted by jarrhead

Invisibility potion? Really?

lol! You know kids... Well, yes I was a desperate case! lol! XD

Originally Posted by SleepyCookieDough

lol! You know kids... Well, yes I was a desperate case! lol! XD

I am a kid.

I remember being a younger kid very well.


I don't understand.

Originally Posted by MementoMori

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...

You were WHIPPED for playing video games? o.0

You guys have really harsh parents. Mine are pretty laid back about most things. They know that I lucid dream and they don't mind it at all. Granted, they aren't particularly interested, but every now and then my mom will ask me about my dreams. They're also really strict about other things, like the internet... My dad is seriously way too paranoid.

I find that people don't mind if you talk about your dreams as long as you keep it brief and it's either entertaining in some way or it relates to whatever conversation you were having before.

When I first discovered LDing I told my friend about it. She thought it was really cool, but she never got into it the way that I did. I even forced her to do a WBTB once and she had a lucid dream, but she still wasn't that interested. I learned that one of my other friends has spontaneous lucids after she brought up a dream she had, but when I told her that you could induce lucid dreams she didn't seem very interested. Then my other other friend is a natural LDer, and ironically she's more interested in NL dreams than lucid ones. She thinks they're more exciting when you don't know that it's real. We talk about our dreams every now and then, though, and she doesn't mind if I talk about LDing.

So yeah, I know four people (my mom's had a lucid dream) who have had lucid dreams but aren't overly interested in them. I really don't understand.

Originally Posted by jarrhead

I am a kid.

I remember being a younger kid very well.


I don't understand.

lol. As I said, I was a desperate case.

I had lots of Hallucinations after waking up when I was young and when this started to leave me, I had the experience of seeing a ghost which looked very real. Some other hapenings made me believe in magic at that time but the lack of these events made me stop believing in them a long time ago, when I was still a kid which i still am (15).

An invisibility potion? Really? The closest me and my friends got to supernatural stuff was hypnosis. I almost convinced my friend that she liked hamburgers.

I had lots of Hallucinations after waking up when I was young and when this started to leave me, I had the experience of seeing a ghost which looked very real. Some other hapenings made me believe in magic at that time but the lack of these events made me stop believing in them a long time ago, when I was still a kid which i still am (15).

SP/HH?

wow I think the main cause behind this is that many people are from the US or other religious country thus the "demon/hellfear"

When I told my mom she thought I was insane or something, we didn't talk about it anymore after that so I think she forgot about it or thinks I've forgotten about it. Since my DJ's are paper copybooks they lie in plain sight in my room - the fact that my handwriting is usually discernible only to me also helps also

Haven't told my dad, though he knows all about buddhism/ all the yogas including dream yoga so he should know about it still he's so overprotective (yeah weird cause usually the mom is the overprotective figure in most families) that I'm sure he'd find a reason for me to stop.


Also told some of my friends- most just thought I was crazy.

I stopped talking to ppl about this except online.

LOL way to get banned.



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Originally Posted by jarrhead

LOL way to get banned.



[ Today, 06:45 PM ]
Now 6:46

yeah being banned sucks

Wait what..?

Wow, I thought it was just a few people, but it seems a lot of people here have parents who still believe in magic. I live in a community without very many religious people, so I thought the stories of "crazy Christian ladies" were just that. That's actually really funny, but I guess it kinda sucks for those of you with batshit parents.

Originally Posted by jarrhead

Wait what..?

It's even worse for me.

Originally Posted by Hidden

SP/HH?

I would wake up and see things, normally animals. They would come out from everywhere. I would especially get spiders all over me when I woke up so I would run to the hallway where cats and other small mammels would come from behind the walls or out of slippers and things like that. I would run along the hallway as the animals came out from places. I would then enter my room and ask my parents to follow me back to my room. As we came back, all the animals and spiders would hide or already be hidden. I'd be able to go back to sleep without spiders crawling over me. It wasn't SP at all.

Originally Posted by yuriythebest

wow I think the main cause behind this is that many people are from the US or other religious country thus the "demon/hellfear"

Isn't USA one of the less religious countries? Or is it just Canadians?

Originally Posted by yuriythebest

yeah being banned sucks

What happens when your ban? Did you just put banned as your little thing under you or are you really ban?

Originally Posted by Conkt

Wow, I thought it was just a few people, but it seems a lot of people here have parents who still believe in magic. I live in a community without very many religious people, so I thought the stories of "crazy Christian ladies" were just that. That's actually really funny, but I guess it kinda sucks for those of you with batshit parents.

yeah, I'm lucky to live in eastern europe/ex-USSR and perhaps one of the few good things it left behind, apart from all the infrastructure and stuff, is that all religion was cracked down upon so now, while ppl are officially "christian" few go to church except for weddings/funerals and if you were to say in ukraine that "the earth is 6000 years old" or that "evolution doesn't exist" or even that you "actively go to church and are overly religious", people simply will look at you as a crazy/weird person (I do not know how many ppl in the US actively believe this so the horror stories from there might be exaggerated).

Still, even if the country isn't religious people will still think that you are weird cause you LD, unless of course you are in Tibet or someplace like that

Well, a person's not going to say that they're overly religious, but a lot of people go to church regularly, and a fair number don't believe in evolution. o.0

But yeah, being religious does nothing for making people think you aren't weird for LDing.