Quote Originally Posted by Sibyline View Post
Well... parents tend to be like that. My mother was horrified when I began talking about lucid dreaming. She thought it was something occult. I didn't know what it was either (before the internet), and there were aspects (of WILDs and FAs) that I didn't like, but the lucidity and dream control - those were great, and I was just trying to find out if other people had them too. Clearly, my parents didn't. My dad still calls it "humbug" - and I gracefully ignore the implied accusation of either being a liar or insane - but in my lucid dreams I make him believe me. And I told him this IWL, just to annoy him.
Yeah, I could see false awakenings being downright disturbing if they're not something you'd prepared yourself for. My first LD was actually a false awakening but I didn't really put it together until later. By the time I had my next one, I'd read enough LD material to be ready for something like that to come. I still wasn't prepared for how realistic it would be.

How does your dad react to the fact that lucid dreaming has been proven in a laboratory setting via prearranged eye movements (by LaBerge and others)? This, it seems, is the piece of evidence that makes the existence of lucid dreaming an undeniable fact. I've gotten the occasional mildly negative reaction to mention of LD, but those LaBerge experiments seem to quiet down any true "doubters".

Quote Originally Posted by PostScript99 View Post
Actually about 2/5th of the people I talk to either suck at it or can't do it but are interested (majority), or are naturals with SP disorder.The rest don't care (2/5) or they think it's crap (1/5). But I talk to weird people who mostly love Inception, which I try to convince them is filled with misleading knowledge but no one has listened so far.
Inception takes a lot of artistic license with what LD is, but they got a lot of the big, important stuff right. Most importantly to me, it has been an awesome vehicle for mainstreaming the idea of conscious dreaming. I find that it's so helpful being able to reference a great movie that pretty much everyone has seen. I love that this movie is out there.

What's funny about Inception is that some of the pieces that seemed very fanciful to me when I saw it (such as the idea of a dream within a dream) are now things I've actually experienced.