Thread: Brainstorming: How to get the word out about LDing and DreamViews???

I don't want this going mainstream, I feel special v.v


Anyways, didn't someone say they found a dreamviews card in a book at the library? Seems like it was working.

Originally Posted by hellohihello

I don't want this going mainstream, I feel special v.v

It probably won't, considering how people usually don't get interested in LDing when they hear about it. Then again, if it somehow becomes "cool" to lucid dream, we're all fucked.

Originally Posted by DarkLucideity

It probably won't, considering how people usually don't get interested in LDing when they hear about it. Then again, if it somehow becomes "cool" to lucid dream, we're all fucked.

No we can rise to the top of the social ladders and command everyone and you copied my pokemonz avatar It's okay though, I love Bidoof.

anyways, back to the topic. We could always do the "adopt-a-highway" thing

Originally Posted by hellohihello

you copied my pokemonz avatar

I did not! I found it on an awesome website and wanted it as an avatar. Hmph!

The desire to be a beautiful unique snowflake is quite possibly the stupidest excuse I've heard yet to keep lucid dreaming 'a secret'. Please only respond to this thread with serious suggestions, and keep pokemon out of it.

Originally Posted by Shift

The desire to be a beautiful unique snowflake is quite possibly the stupidest excuse I've heard yet to keep lucid dreaming 'a secret'. Please only respond to this thread with serious suggestions, and keep pokemon out of it.

If I'm included in that, to extend my point and quote myself,

Originally Posted by DarkLucideity

I hope lucid dreaming doesn't get mainstream. You can see that by how non-mainstream it already is. It would get fucked up somehow. Who knows how? Maybe everyone would do it wrong and spread misinformation about how to LD, maybe laws would be passed about it, maybe people would just be pricks about it, maybe it would be talked about so much it gets annoying as fuck. I don't think people are ready for lucid dreaming yet. They should get the rest of their shit together before trying something like LDing.

EDIT: God, can you imagine what the "new age" people would do to LDing?! They're the ones that made dream interpretation so "out there" in the first place! Not only that, what if some people conclude that if they can have any experience they want, life doesn't matter so much anyway? Why work, if I can get just enough to get by and sleep? Then the economy would be fucked!

All in all, I don't think most people would be able to appreciate lucid dreaming anyway. They'd use it for the fun experiences, flying, but nothing more. Not as a tool or to learn about oneself at all. Sure the fun is great, but it's nice when LDing is more meaningful.

But it's not like I'm against spreading the word about lucid dreaming. Just lucid dreaming being mainstream and popular.
Real life doesn't have dream guides. Even if every single person logged onto DV, we wouldn't have enough skilled people to answer their questions. Just read a few pages of comments on videos like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llw717IARpQ and you might see my point. Even the video itself is wrong at some points (no pain in dreams?).

"Pretend you're spinning in circles? Thinking about spinning in cicrcles will wake me up cause I'll be awake enough to remember that and to even do that! STUPID!"

"i cant dream how do you dream also wen i get dreams i always think its real"

"Your reflection can be veeeery scary and you can wake up or have a false awakening.. but i dont think you will ever think about mirrors in LDs"

Well most of the comments are dream experiences...
A lot of the people are naturals but that probably doesn't mean they can explain how they do it.

Print out posters and laminate them. Then go put them up in Libraries, Schools, grocery stores.

^ That's what I plan on doing. Whipping up some sick photoshop chit and bringing in the crowd

I do not want to become Twitter, and lose that bond that the active members have.

Hah. I was just thinking. We should do the business cards. On my own time I'll print them out and go all across America and just leave them in conveinient stores or other places I go to.

I just thought of something. I do not want everyone to know about this site because if they do people will be posting left and right, and the secound you post something it would already be pages away just like when you are trying to sugest a myth to the Mythbusters, you can't because your post in one day will already be like 10 pages away if this site gets too pouplar we will not be able to get our posts read unless someone looks at every single post every day. (ranting is fun)

Or we will slowly decay into non-anon /b/.

For my part, I just realized I still haven't posted here.

I leave origami with the URL to DV at restaurants, and every telemarketer call I get, I try and get them interested in LDing. It's worked on a few. I also use Omegle frequently, only telling those conversational partners that seem intelligent enough to make good additions to the community, of course.

I might try this idea of printing up posters/flyers, that sounds good.

Oh doing what you did right here would work, posting in longues where you get more views lol
That and I'm trying to get DV at the news and want to start clubs of LD in school to see how it goes <.<

Originally Posted by Walms

That and I'm trying to get DV at the news

Steal a car and go on a pedestrian killing rampage, then when you're questioned, tell them that you thought it was a dream, and how interested you are in lucid dreaming/about all your friends on dreamviews.

Hey, you want it on the news, that's a quick solution!

But we want people to like it, not to hate it lol
So better safe than sorry <.<

I don't know how this stuff really works, and to be honest I dunno if someone already suggested this as I didn't read all the thread , but is there a way to put an advertisement up on Facebook? or maybe make a you tube video advertisement for the site?

I just found an add for it on youtube... it had only about 500 views though probably because it had few tags. and the title said Lucid dreaming Dream views. I think more people would watch it if the title was -how to have lucid dreams- or something.

I was thinking that DV should put an ad on a popular website with dramatic facts (1/3 of your life is missing! Do the impossible! Remember details from YEARS ago!) and link them here with incentive. (Find out how with DreamViews.com! Over 20,000 members strong... Nothing to lose, everything to gain!)

DV could also advertise on public transportation. There are millions in the US alone that use it, so why not take advantage?

Advertising costs money that DV doesn't have. Also, I'm very likely to ignore ads and if I saw an ad for something related to dreaming I'd dismiss it as new age crap.

If I'm not mistaken, DV is actually a business, right?

Also, I'm pretty sure that according to mainstream populous, LD'ing IS new age crap. It's up there with hypnosis, bineural beats and things like that. (funny thing is, hypnosis and bineural beats actually work)

It's been drilled into the minds of millions that dreams should not be messed with, and it's been assumed that anything that seems "out there" is fake. (for instance, ~20% of US citizens seriously believe that we have not been to the moon)

Call big time radio talk shows and talk about lucid dreaming. Then ease into mentioning "Dream Views on the internet". If you dive right into talking about "DreamViews.com", you will sound like an advertiser and it will get bleeped out, most likely. Coast to Coast would be an awesome show to mention it on, if you can ever get on the show. I have gotten on it twice, but there was a guest host both times. It was back when Art Bell was the main host, and I was never able to get on when he was in the studio. But people did it all the time.

Also, start threads about lucid dreaming on major web sites, particularly psychology, philosophy, and mysticism sites. In your original post, provide a link to this site. Try not to come across as a spammer. Doing this will be very effective.

It's one thing to get the word out about lucid dreaming, but getting the word out about DV would cause lots more people to come to DV thus changing the community for better or for worse. Personally, I don't see any reason why DV should change. It has sustained growth and the community is fine.

I share Bleagle's view. Why do we need the DV community to be bigger? It's not like you get any more profit. You get money from these advertisments everywhere. People don't pay to sign up. If people hear about LD'ing and they want to try it, they can search it up and find us. If we just get giant, nobody will know anyone and it will become a Twitter deal. It's going to suck.

Good points guys. I never really thought about DV becoming TOO big, but I can see how that could become a problem. However, I still like the idea of spreading the word about DV and lucid dreaming in general. Perhaps the membership process could be more strict, like mods would have to approve each "applicant" first, or any interested person would have to fill out a questionair or something.

Also, Iv'e noticed there are hundreds of members here who havn't been active for 2+ years. I think a project staff should work on is deleting any accounts that have been inactive for a certain amount of time; I'm sure this has already been discussed