Thread: Lucid Dreaming Officially Disproved!

Originally Posted by ExoByte

Yet another:



Nice try Xaq, but it would've worked better before MoS admitted the whole thing was a joke.

Huh, well he made a pretty convincing website then. I really didn't expect anyone to go to that much trouble for a joke thread in the lounge. How long did that site take you to make, MoS?

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

The "excitement" never ends around here. I'm glad I missed yet another prank. It's more annoying than amusing, kind of like me.

Pfft, mine was actually good. And you know it.

Originally Posted by Venomblood

Consciousness is simply being aware. Even if you only "think" you were aware when you woke up, it doesn't matter. You were aware.

You're a little late.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

When I saw other people say this was a joke, and then couldn't get the link to work, I assumed it was too, but I managed to get the site to work while I was at home and it looks legit. If you think about it, it makes sense. Almost all induction techniques involve repetitive actions to tell yourself you are dreaming but really, the same kind of actions would work to induce specific events in normal dreams too. Basically, what you are really doing (if the site is right) is making yourself have a normal dream about knowing you are dreaming.

This would explain why even though we think we are lucid, we still think illogically and can't remember simple information like addresses or whatever, or even remember to remember them. How many times have any of you tried to do one of the monthly tasks and become lucid, only to completely forget to do the task? This is most likely because you incubated the thought "I am dreaming" but not the thought "do the task" and because you weren't actually conscious, you were unable to make the conection between dreaming and wanting to do the task.

You're even later. Props for trying to help, though. And that does make sense, probably better said than my original post actually.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

Huh, well he made a pretty convincing website then. I really didn't expect anyone to go to that much trouble for a joke thread in the lounge. How long did that site take you to make, MoS?

Again, props for trying to continue the prank. However, we both know I made no site.


...or did I?

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

Pfft, mine was actually good. And you know it.



You're a little late.



You're even later. Props for trying to help, though. And that does make sense, probably better said than my original post actually.



Again, props for trying to continue the prank. However, we both know I made no site.


...or did I?

Ehh, I must admit I didn't use your link because I just searched for it once I got home but I thought it was the same thing. It was some research organization in San Diego and the article was a dreaming study that they found evidence against lucid dreaming. I didn't really read the whole thing because I assumed it was the same one and was only checking if it was real. I guess it wasn't your link since you say you didn't make a website though, and maybe it wasn't as related as I thought from my brief glance. I'll look for it again.

For a second I was tempted to go google for that, Xaq, but then my brain started working.