Thread: Parents think LDing is an occult...

Originally Posted by hisnameistyler

Unfortunately, it seems my mom seems to think that Lucid Dreaming is kind of weird. She doesn't show it, and I don't think she'd admit it, but I just have that feeling that she thinks that. It is a shame really.

Nevermind you guys, we are the chosen ones.

Originally Posted by Heavy Sleeper

Nevermind you guys, we are the chosen ones.

That would be awesome.

Originally Posted by Heavy Sleeper

Nevermind you guys, we are the chosen ones.

yes, one day Stephen Laberge will call his followers and we will take over the world

To clear things up about the movie (warning: possible spoilers):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/synopsis

It doesn't appear to be specifically about lucid dreaming, more about entering people's dreams, and that somehow goes wrong (because otherwise there would be no movie).

Originally Posted by James2302

yes, one day Stephen Laberge will call his followers and we will take over the world

After being into parkour for so long, this sounds just like what I'd hear my friends say, except Stephen LaBerge would be David Belle. XD

So, I'm going to be sleeping over at a friend's house in a week I think, and may just give him a first-hand look at how LDing is done: dream journal next to my head, drinking lots of water before sleeping, and when I lay down I get very relaxed very quickly. And when I wake, the first thing I do - before checking my phone, before getting out of bed - I started frantically scribbling in my notebook. XD

Has anyone else taken their lucid dreaming practices over to a friend's house? Did they treat you any differently, like the parents of the OP of this thread had treated them like it was a cult?

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

After being into parkour for so long, this sounds just like what I'd hear my friends say, except Stephen LaBerge would be David Belle. XD

So, I'm going to be sleeping over at a friend's house in a week I think, and may just give him a first-hand look at how LDing is done: dream journal next to my head, drinking lots of water before sleeping, and when I lay down I get very relaxed very quickly. And when I wake, the first thing I do - before checking my phone, before getting out of bed - I started frantically scribbling in my notebook. XD

Has anyone else taken their lucid dreaming practices over to a friend's house? Did they treat you any differently, like the parents of the OP of this thread had treated them like it was a cult?

I have! I was sleeping over at my best friend's house and I wanted to WBTB... and so I did. I do that by setting an alarm, which of course meant that she was forced to do one too. She didn't mind much because she knows I'm not a nutcase and she figured she could just go right back to sleep after turning off the alarm. She was the one who became lucid that night.

Oh, and parkour sounds like fun... I'm not sure I could get into it unless other people I know are doing it, though.

Originally Posted by Hidden

I have! I was sleeping over at my best friend's house and I wanted to WBTB... and so I did. I do that by setting an alarm, which of course meant that she was forced to do one too. She didn't mind much because she knows I'm not a nutcase and she figured she could just go right back to sleep after turning off the alarm. She was the one who became lucid that night.

Oh, and parkour sounds like fun... I'm not sure I could get into it unless other people I know are doing it, though.

Yeah, I had lots of friends to do it with, made it much more fun to be able to focus on what I was doing and not looking over my shoulder while around school, checking to make sure no one was staring or anything. 'Course, in all my experiences, people are more amazed and interested than critical or ignorant of what you're doing, so....

Yeah? I'm gonna get to see how waking up in the middle of the night from drinking a bunch of water while in an unfamiliar territory is like. I won't do the alarm, even though it's a soft, gentle one that kinda eases me awake instead of shaking me awake - I expect it wouldn't bother anyone else in the room, but on the offchance that it IS too much a bother, I'll just drink a glass of the good ol' clear stuff and hit the sack.

I actually found out that one of my little brother's friend's mom (it probably would have been simpler to say one of my friends or a family friend) knows about lucid dreaming. I was so excited when she mentioned it! I told her that I'd learned how to do it a year ago, but she didn't seem to believe that she could also learn it. I need to get better at telling people briefly how to induce lucidity. I briefly told her about reality checks and that was all; I just don't want to go on for hours about WILD vs DILD and dream recall and reality checks and MILD and DEILD and... yeah, I could go on for quite awhile.

Well, if your friends are also interested in trying LDing, they probably wouldn't mind being woken up too much.

I feel good today. I converted a friend to start playing bass AND found out he is interested in LDing.

You may see him on here soon.

I'm glad to see not everybody finds it a cult.

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

After being into parkour for so long, this sounds just like what I'd hear my friends say, except Stephen LaBerge would be David Belle. XD

So, I'm going to be sleeping over at a friend's house in a week I think, and may just give him a first-hand look at how LDing is done: dream journal next to my head, drinking lots of water before sleeping, and when I lay down I get very relaxed very quickly. And when I wake, the first thing I do - before checking my phone, before getting out of bed - I started frantically scribbling in my notebook. XD

Has anyone else taken their lucid dreaming practices over to a friend's house? Did they treat you any differently, like the parents of the OP of this thread had treated them like it was a cult?

At my own house, yes. He noticed I was on DV, I explained lucid dreams to him, and he said that it was stupid.
30 minutes later, he asked if he could use my computer to find out how to lucid dream.

Originally Posted by YYNYM

I explained lucid dreams to him, and he said that it was stupid.
30 minutes later, he asked if he could use my computer to find out how to lucid dream.

Hahahahahaha...
My mother went from thinking it was nonsense to liking the idea of it over a period of weeks, but 30 minutes.!? xD