Thread: The DV Book of Records

Those two records probably won't be broken until September, that's when there is usually a big influx of new members

I wonder what the correlation between new members and the drop in age is

Thanks Alex! That's pretty awesome. Go Dream Views!

Dv Ftw. :-)

More individual glorification.

These communal records are socialist nonsense.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Those two records probably won't be broken until September, that's when there is usually a big influx of new members

I wonder what the correlation between new members and the drop in age is

Sad isn't it.

Why do you think it's September anyway?

Because all the kids and people go back to school and work, and so are more motivated to investigate escapism?

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Because all the kids and people go back to school and work, and so are more motivated to investigate escapism?

Probably.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Why do you think it's September anyway?

September is the 8th month of the year. This correlates with the law of fives via 2^3=8, 2+3=5.

Glad I could settle this for you all.

This Is Dv!

...Bleh, I meant to write that in caps.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Sad isn't it.

Why do you think it's September anyway?

Because all the kids and people go back to school and work, and so are more motivated to investigate escapism?

I joined during a September and it seems that my case could be pretty typical. It was my first semester of college and a dorm mate that I had recently met described lucid dreaming to me. I realized that I'd had a handful as a child (in my experience, most people have had at least one), so I got pretty excited about it, Googled it, and prompty ended up here. The reason I think this could be fairly typical is that the majority of the DV community are school-age, and so the beginning of the academic year represents a time of significant social change, an influx of new perspectives, etc. In short, more opportunities to learn about lucid dreaming from various acquaintances. This is true for any student, but especially true for someone making the transition to college.

This is probably little more than a plausible theory, though. I actually posted some traffic stats a while back (here; unfortunately you need CT access to view this), and there didn't seem to be any evidence for a spike in registrations during September. I didn't spend much time on making the graphs easily interpretable, but if you count back the days (denoted as obs = observations) from the time of that post until you get to the general Septemberish area, there's just nothing interesting going on there. There is probably good reason to doubt the validity of the traffic measure, but the registration data should be pretty solid.

Originally Posted by Siиdяed

More individual glorification.

These communal records are socialist nonsense.

Errrhhm. I suggested Alex make this thread, I thought people would actually be interested to know this sort of stuff. Maybe I was wrong though.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Sad isn't it.

Why do you think it's September anyway?

Because all the kids and people go back to school and work, and so are more motivated to investigate escapism?

Because everyone goes to school and have a lot of time between classes so they search the web and stumble on our little site. Also, lots of students, especially freshmen have to take a psych gen-ed.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Because everyone goes to school and have a lot of time between classes so they search the web and stumble on our little site. Also, lots of students, especially freshmen have to take a psych gen-ed.

I tend to have less time during work or whatever.

I'd imagine people do more web browsing in free periods when they have more time.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Because everyone goes to school and have a lot of time between classes so they search the web and stumble on our little site. Also, lots of students, especially freshmen have to take a psych gen-ed.

That's a rather bold generalized assumption don't you think?

es·cap·ism (-skpzm)
n.
The tendency to escape from daily reality or routine by indulging in daydreaming, fantasy, or entertainment.

I would think more members join for the purposes of escaping the rat race of life than those who join because they're taking a psych class and are studying dreams.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Errrhhm. I suggested Alex make this thread, I thought people would actually be interested to know this sort of stuff. Maybe I was wrong though.

I'm interested...

Originally Posted by Mario92

I'm interested...

This^

http://www.google.com/trends?q=lucid...ate=all&sort=0

Looks like interest has been dying out in the dream department...and check out where the 2007 spike occurs. Coincidence?

http://www.google.com/trends?q=lucid...ate=all&sort=0

Now this is interesting...lucid dreaming has nothing on dreaming in general...but again notice the 2007 spike in interest. WTF happened?

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.dreamviews.com/

That's a helluva lot of views...and in 15 pages, only one bad review.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Because everyone goes to school and have a lot of time between classes so they search the web and stumble on our little site. Also, lots of students, especially freshmen have to take a psych gen-ed.

Thats crazy. September is probably the busiest month for me. (Who has time then??) I always thought activity died down during September because everyone went back to school. It's usually a tad more active during the summer, with more free time.

Strange.

Well, everyone goes to school in late August, got all of their classes figured out, all their books are bought, and they have an hour or two between classes. Not enough time to have a job, too much time to stay on campus. Go home and surf the web

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I'm so proud! This is the best forum site i've been to so far, it has such a diverse community that all have something in common that is so profound it breaks down barriers in contemporary stereotypes. This forum does a better job at bringing diversity under one banner than most other sites. I'll definitely be recommending it to anybody that asks me about Lucid Dreaming. In the words of Jeff DV ftw!

Originally Posted by MementoMori

The DV Avatar/Sig Shop was Stiky'd today! YAY Thanks DV!
I'm so proud! This is the best forum site i've been to so far, it has such a diverse community that all have something in common that is so profound it breaks down barriers in contemporary stereotypes. This forum does a better job at bringing diversity under one banner than most other sites. I'll definitely be recommending it to anybody that asks me about Lucid Dreaming. In the words of Jeff DV ftw!

Haha congrats mate on being the "CEO" of the DV Avatar/Sig Shop. Especially now that it IS official. I take my hat off to you since you took the initiative to create such an already successful venture on DV.

Thanks, i appreciate it!

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Well, everyone goes to school in late August, got all of their classes figured out, all their books are bought, and they have an hour or two between classes. Not enough time to have a job, too much time to stay on campus. Go home and surf the web

...hey, I joined in September. Got a new computer for school, and didn't have anything better to do than surf the web.

Exactly.

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