Thread: Imagine a world where everyone knew about Lucid Dreaming..

I'd totally slap DV stickers about public toilets.

Okay I did it. I wrote in a bunch of different bathroom stalls at my school Google: Lucid Dreaming

And I'm going to leave sicky notes in other places! This was a good idea.

haha nice everyone. I agree lucid dreaming can be unique even if everyone knew about it. I wrote some notes in school today and just dropped them on peoples desk without them knowing. I hope more people start to do this!

can u imagine the reaction someone might have if they found a note that said lucid dreaming, and they actually looked it up? i think it would change there life.

Originally Posted by JamesLD

can u imagine the reaction someone might have if they found a note that said lucid dreaming, and they actually looked it up? i think it would change there life.

Unless they didn't care about dreaming, which can be said for many.

Originally Posted by JamesLD

can u imagine the reaction someone might have if they found a note that said lucid dreaming, and they actually looked it up? i think it would change there life.

Yeah, I personally think it's a much better way then just to tell them about it.

every time i turn somebody on to lucid dreaming, i feel like i just unplugged them from the matrix. You think that's air you're breathing now?

I think some people just dont care for it , but i think that everyone should atleast try it once. Its pretty much just a double battle, im more towards the side of keeping it on the down low and maybe just telling a couple friends then we could keep it on the down low but it would still be expanding slowly.

This would be a good idea...

But think about it..

When you see a random peice of paper, do you pick it up? If you do, do you open it? And if you open it, do you actually take into consideration what is written? And if you do, would you actually go to a sight called dreamviews?

Just think of the name for a second, imagine you knew nothing about the sight and think about it...

And I know you probably think that's completely immature but hey, I wouldn't actually do all those steps.. And I sure as hell wouldn't go to a site on the internet I found on the sidewalk...

I've had a good response whenever I mention Lucid Dreaming. Some people have heard about it. Some people have experienced it but didn't know what to call it. I belive someday it will replace Virtual Reality.

Originally Posted by ethan_hines

I've had a good response whenever I mention Lucid Dreaming. Some people have heard about it. Some people have experienced it but didn't know what to call it. I belive someday it will replace Virtual Reality.

Replace virtual reality? We've barely experienced virtual reality.
Virtual reality is probably going to end up being machines that cause dreams.

Originally Posted by Loaf

Replace virtual reality? We've barely experienced virtual reality.
Virtual reality is probably going to end up being machines that cause lucid dreams.

Fixed it for you!

Originally Posted by Loaf

Unless they didn't care about dreaming, which can be said for many.

Sad but True!

Originally Posted by Walms

Fixed it for you!

Dream is the parent category, lucid dream is the sub-category. A lucid dream can not work without the dream.

Ah, fine loaf, then I hope you were referring to the whole package lol

"a world where everyone knows about lucid dreaming" has sort of come and gone.

there are still some cultures out there who see dream control as a normal part of one's striving towards wisdom and self-development. so i think that just as a hallucinogen experience used for a person's development is replaced by personality-regulating pharmaceutical drugs, or the village shaman shifts into a powerful religious authority, lucid dreaming will be outpaced by a new wave of 3D equipped big screen TVs. or maybe i should say "further obscured" rather than "outpaced."

it's so easy to appeal to people's desire for entertainment, distraction and security...

well, i'm cynical and i think technology won't slow down, but i like the ideas you guys have for how to spread awareness on the topic.

I'd hate it if everyone knew about LD'ing...
It would make it seem less special. Like a general, run-of-the-mill everyday activity like going to school or work. It would become less exciting if one was to have a Lucid Dream. Then everyone would be like, 'Yeah, so? I do that all the time.'

Exactly... it would lose its.. "magic".

selfish. you guys are like the freemasons of lucid dreaming.

I don't get why it would lose its magic... everyone does different things in their dreams, so even if its widely known, doesn't mean everyone will start stalking you and doing the very same thing you do, which makes YOUR LD just as special as before <.<

I know, but it just feels special to have something that you do, like LDing, that no one else does. It's like if you have a hobby, like, I don't know, soccer.. or drawing, and then everyone else decided they wanted to do it, it would really annoy me because that particular thing is no longer special to just you, because everyone around you is doing it too. Except, LD'ing is a lot more interesting and special then drawing and kicking a ball around a field.
So, I personally think it would loose it's magic. Matter of opinion, I guess.

Because it will become so general, it won't be interesting.
Same way public transport would be 100 times cooler if only a few people were allowed to use it.

Originally Posted by cygnus

selfish. you guys are like the freemasons of lucid dreaming.

Well isn't that better then, as Loaf said, having it become a general day-to-day thing? Exactlly like public transport?
At least here a DV we all have something that we just share between all of us rather then everyone in the entire world.
No, not selfish. I just don't want to watch it loose it's specialness (if specialness is a word.)

lol but in a bus you can't do that much stuff, or in soccer, don't know about drawing, has so many options, except all of it is done in a white paper.
Now in a LD you can do anything you imagine, so yeah, unless you get stalked by millions of people who want to do the same stuff you do in a LD, don't see it being less personal.
Kind of like how there aren't that many people in DV that has killed humanity a few times, even though most practiced/practice LD at some point/still do <.<