Thread: It's funny how people are so uninformed

If you guys found that funny, look for "What is a lucid dream" in yahoo answers!

Originally Posted by Walms

If you guys found that funny, look for "What is a lucid dream" in yahoo answers!

I looked it up. wow...

"i have lucid dreams ALL the time man. here's some questions to ask yourself when wondering if you're dreaming
1. is everything sorta trippy and outta focus?(it happens)
2. do a variety of reality checks, do they fail?
but trust me man you'll KNOW if you're dreaming, i just automatically know and so will you"

well informed indeed.

Originally Posted by Xedan

I looked it up. wow...

"i have lucid dreams ALL the time man. here's some questions to ask yourself when wondering if you're dreaming
1. is everything sorta trippy and outta focus?(it happens)
2. do a variety of reality checks, do they fail?
but trust me man you'll KNOW if you're dreaming, i just automatically know and so will you"

well informed indeed.

Atleast he did not explain like this, "Well what you wanna do is DILD while you WILD because if you fail you have a backup."

A lot of them think you can get hurt in dreams.
(eyeroll)

Hm... one year and they get that better? WTH? Last time I checked that it was some sort of "A LD is dangerous, you can die doing it!" and stuff like that, one of them believed it would summon demons to your house because you were attempting to OBE with a different name <.<

Edit: Actually... nvm, it is a good thing they are getting informed, just ignore me.

Yeah, the wonderful world of ignorants. One of my friends is stalwartly against lucid dreaming (maybe just to piss me off?) and is assured that you cannot control your dreams.

My brother, when I told him about it, was annoyed. His girlfriend also talked about it, and he gave me the same response - to shrug and say 'I hear if you die in them, you die in real life.'

I couldn't believe it. I thought he was just having a go at me - he's a very smart guy - but he was actually serious. When I pressed him on his ridiculous logic, he just shrugged again as if he didn't care.

Euh. Last night, my parents, being the technophobic generation that they are, started musing about 'when we'll all have access to perfectly realistic holodecks'.

I told them about dreaming (I've told them about LDs before), they just laughed. "You can't control them", patronizingly. My mom smiled at my dad as if I were such a cute little boy.

ARG. Whatever, their loss.

Originally Posted by Ethereal

Yeah, the wonderful world of ignorants. One of my friends is stalwartly against lucid dreaming (maybe just to piss me off?) and is assured that you cannot control your dreams.

My brother, when I told him about it, was annoyed. His girlfriend also talked about it, and he gave me the same response - to shrug and say 'I hear if you die in them, you die in real life.'

I couldn't believe it. I thought he was just having a go at me - he's a very smart guy - but he was actually serious. When I pressed him on his ridiculous logic, he just shrugged again as if he didn't care.

Euh. Last night, my parents, being the technophobic generation that they are, started musing about 'when we'll all have access to perfectly realistic holodecks'.

I told them about dreaming (I've told them about LDs before), they just laughed. "You can't control them", patronizingly. My mom smiled at my dad as if I were such a cute little boy.

ARG. Whatever, their loss.

seriously. We LDers need to start carrying around source cards with scientifically accurate research noted in them just to hand to skeptics. I can understand not believing in OBEs and Astral Projection, but not thinking we can control our own brains? Buddha would shit his pants at the sound of that.