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

The purpose of this thread is for everyone to share and discuss ideas on presenting the idea of lucid dreaming and DreamViews to your community and the world. How can we go about recruiting new members, spreading the knowledge of lucid dreaming, all that good stuff?

So please, post any ideas that you have, even if they are far-fetched or impossible. Let's just try to get some creativity flowing, get thoughts or concerns out there, and see if we can find something to work with. If a specific idea has a lot of support, we can have it split into a new thread for discussion and implementation.

Well, that buisness card thing could work...

I suggest if you print off business cards for DreamViews that you put them in like popular books like Twilight or something.

Oh, that reminds me. I wanted to go around asking people "How would you like to learn to control your dreams?" and "How would you like to be able to have any experience you can possibly imagine, without much effort?" to see how differently they react to both.

If there is someone with skill in video editing, perhaps a viral video of some sort? It could use effects to show off the kinds of thing a lucid dream can be used for.

Business cards would be great, especially in popular fiction like slayer said.

Start pushing around the forum to get users to advertise DV on social networking sites.

As silly as it may sound, make a cardboard sign with the URL and bring it to a televised sporting event. If the sign stands out, it shouldn't be too hard to get a camera on you during a break in play. Even if not broadcast, just having it on a screen in the stadium immediately targets all those people looking at it.

In addition to printing little lucid dreaming business cards with DV and some information on them and then leaving them in interesting locations where they're likely to be read (planes/airports, restaurants/menus, waiting rooms, bookstores, windshields, birthday cards at the store, the mailboxes with slots at apartment complexes, school/gym lockers, etc.), I also had this expensive and impossible idea:

One or a series of short videos, which could be kept on sites like youtube.
Here are the basics as written in an MSN conversation:

Spoiler for LD 'commercials':

It kind of formed in my head like the preview to a movie. It could be a guy sleeping in bed, and a voice would say "THIS" and then an alarm goes off, and he's all miserable and wakes up. Then it would say, "IS JACK" or whoever. And then it goes through this series of clips showing how miserable his life is or whatever. His dog shits on the floor and his wife is fat and ugly and his car breaks down on the way to work and it starts raining as he hops a bus and when he gets there his boss yells at him and his computer won't work so he sits there for hours messing with it and then he goes home and looks in the mirror and is a little fat and balding and is miserable and goes to sleep.

And then he wakes up and he's lucid, so he makes his dog clean the house and his wife is some super sexy person and he has a Lamborghini and drives to work, looks up at the building, rolls his eyes, walks in the front door and ends up at the beach. There's a door on a beach (like that scene in Beetlejuice) and he lays down in a hammock and smiles.

Although at some point he could be looking in a mirror and like adjusting his body to make it awesome. Maybe he could go into work and upstairs and throw his boss across the room and then walk into a bathroom, make himself good looking, open the toilet stall and have it lead to the beach... something really crazy and awesome. Anyway at the very end it would have his alarm clock go off and he'd be smiling as he turned it off.

But then I thought, wouldn't it be awesome if there were a series of them, for every stereotype... teenage girls, teenage guys, older people, whatever. There could even be nightmare ones where people are smashing their nightmares hahaha It could show a funeral and all these depressed people, and then someone in their dreams hugging the person who died.

Damn, awesome, in the time it took me to copy/paste we already have some neat ideas Keep 'em coming guys Even if they are impossible, post anyway and see if you can inspire someone else!

SHIFT, I really really like your mini-series idea. It would be great if they all followed the similar theme yet with, like you said, different stereotypical characters. I love it.

On a side note, a cheap, quick, easy way to get dreamviews out is simply writing it EVERYWHERE. Write it on your restaurant meal bills, stalls of bathrooms (err I mean, vandalism is BAD), leave notes in books, write on money bills; something simple like "Are you dreaming? www.dreamviews.com". Also, everyone should buy a shirt/bag/sweatshirt with the DV logo

id buy a DV shirt

this is a good design i found in a thread awhile ago

http://droidz.org/share/12115/1248126580.png

Could randomly go through your phonebook like a telemarketer and tell people you are conducting a survey for psychology course, ask them if they'd be willing to answer some questions, ask if they've ever had a dream where they knew they were dreaming, ever woken up and found yourself paralyzed, ever had recurring nightmares that they wanted to conquer, etc. etc. and eventually lead into: this is what lucid dreaming is, did you know these facts, blah blah if you want to know more here is a website set up by a student (technically not a lie...)

Every single psychology book in a college bookstore.
Get some studious people into it, maybe influence some people to do research?

I could maybe spread some words around at my college when school starts. We could tell people with certin problems about it. Ex. "Hey "insert freinds name here" I do know that you are trying to (get over fear, stop (insert name of drug here)). I think you might like Lucid dreaming." "It's where you controll your dreams you can do anything your mind desires, I even know about this really good site that could help you out" you can guess how the rest of the conversation generally goes.

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.

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.