Thread: Convince a non-believer?

You could first convince him that it's possible to realize you're dreaming. After that, he should agree that you can control your own actions in the dream. If you can, from there, get him to agree that the dream setting, just like your dream body, is one and the same, then voila.

Originally Posted by Johnbronze

I was recently talking to my grandfather about my various dreaming scenarios and brought up Lucid Dreaming. After telling him more he said that he tried once when he was a kid and that it was/is a bunch of bull. How can i make a closed-minded fellow like him believe there is such a thing as controlling dreams?

Is it the control aspect alone he doesn't get, or does he also not believe being lucid at all is possible? As for lucidity, ask him a few questions and lead him right to the truth. Ask him if it is possible to believe you are walking in a dream, if it is possible to believe you are riding in a car in a dream, and if it possible to believe you are throwing a baseball in a dream. He should say yes to all three of those questions. Then ask him if it is possible to believe you are dreaming in a dream. If he says you can, then you have convinced him that lucid dreaming is possible. If he says you can't, ask him what the difference is. Then there is the control issue. Tell him we are always controlling what we do in dreams. If you are running from a monster in a dream, you are doing it on purpose. If you are driving a car in a dream, you are doing it deliberately. Controlling a lucid dream is the same, except you believe you are dreaming.