Thread: What do your friends/family think of you intrest is Dreams/Lucidity?

Originally Posted by tekkendreams

i think ur wife is lying , how on earth can doing anything u want annoying that really doesnt make sense

Well TBH I can see where she might be coming from. I had LDs occasionally before knowing what they were and almost always woke up after a few seconds. That can be very frustrating if you are having a really good dream

I have told my boyfriend about LDs and he kinda just looked at me like I'm weird. Would have been nice to be able to share it with him but oh well

I also told one of my friends from WoW who is big on meditation so I figured he might take to it really easily. As far as I know he hasn't tried it out. /shrug.

I told two of my friends and one of them does it naturally and the other was interested and thought it sounded cool. I told my sisters one of them was really interested and has given kind of weak attempts at it. The other sister doesn't really understand why anyone would want to do it.

My family thinks its silly, and they think it's controlling my mind. They've almost banned me from the computer because of it.

But I can't blame them. My math grades aren't so hot =P

I've only recently started taking it serious and recording my dreams, but I guess I'd only share when/ if asked. Most of my friends think I'm a hippie (although I'm not) because I'm really into psychedelics and the nature of consciousness. I'm assuming if I talked about LDing most people would not believe its possible. I didn't think so until recently.

Originally Posted by Caleb

My mother thinks the people here are trying to take control of my subconcious so they can control me... weird, huh? Oh, and my mother dosn't beleive that LDing is even real.

Damn! She got us all figured out! haha.


All of my immediate family doesn't really care for it. They just kinda nod and agree and give me this "good for you!" type of comment. I have a few friends around here that have had lucid dreams though, but they don't really pursue it by keeping dream journals and trying out different techniques.

Iv'e told 3 friend's and my sister.. all of my friend's seemed to think it was the most amazing thing they've ever heard!!, they wanted to get to straight away!. so far they say they have had 3 to 4... wich is amazing since i told them last week, considering the fact they may be lieng but still. They seem eager to LD so that's ok with me..

On the other hand, my sister thought i was some sort of sphycotik freak!!. and just scowled at me as i tried to explain... and i told one other person, who just said.. John!, evrythings wierd with you!.. you dont live in the real world, come back down to earth.. i mean, ouija baords. telekenisis, and now this... Get a grip... so i told her that, im bored.. yes, bored of waking life.. thats why i long to search for amazing thing's that alow me to do incredible stuff that not evryone can do.. i dont want to be normal. i want to be diffrent. But in a good way, thing's that can defy the laws of the universe! that could impress some people.. and lucid dreaming is the best thing iv'e ever come accross.. im not wasting my time, infact.. your wasting your time.. the 8 hours were you sleep your doing nothing.. so why not spend that wasted time acheaving something.. discovering something aboutyourself. something new and exiting!!... So i ask!! what the hell is wrong with that!!!!...

she just laughed and walked away...

This has been done 20 times before.

My parents are mildly interested. My dad actually knew about lucid dreaming before I did and my mom always thought my dreams were interesting, but I think she has a hard time relating (I used to read tons of fantasy and sci-fi, and she preffers biographies). She wasn't all that interested in dreaming before, although after bugging her constantly to remember if she "had any dreams last night" (for the past several weeks), her recall is getting pretty good I'm even starting to suspect that she has some real potential for lucid dreaming based on some dreams she told me from when she was younger...

I've also told a couple friends about it. The first one had an LD that same night (!!!) using the finger counting reality check I told her about. Lol, she was my roomate for a trip and I had wondered why she was laughing in her sleep. The other friend had actually heard about lucid dreaming before and seemed to find it interesting. I've talked to just about all my friends about regular dreams. I'm actually surprised at how ready people are to swap dream stories. I suspect most of my friends would be interested, but probably not to the extent of trying to LD.

Originally Posted by tekkendreams

i think ur wife is lying , how on earth can doing anything u want annoying that really doesnt make sense

I don't think she's lying. Like I said, she's never had control; in fact, she said she never even thought about the possibility. She's just had low levels of consciousness where she realizes she's dreaming.

"It seems like our daughter is trying to get some virtual sex!"

--Parents

"Woah! Awesome! I want such amazing dreams!"

--Younger sister

"... And? You should be focusing on -insert real life junk here- instead."

--Older brother

"??? Is that possible?" "I'm too lazy to do that." "I don't remember my dreams." "-insert another oversimplified response here-"

--Friends

Originally Posted by Luminous

How can someone find lucid dreams annoying?

When I was younger, before I really knew about lucid dreaming and what you could do in them, I had several lucid nightmares that I couldn't wake up from. That wasn't too fun.

I told another friend today after waking up from a really good DILD.

He was interested but didn't want to try it. He asked if it was dangerous and I explained it wasn't and its just like a normal dream. Then he said he wouldn't try because it would be scary. I tried convincing him it isn't and that its one of the best feelings in the world but I don't think he believed me. He then said he doesn't want to hit his girlfriend while he's sleeping... I explained you don't move when your dreaming just like normal dreams, but he's afraid he'll wake up and kick her, like when you wake up from a nightmare. He still thinks it would be scary.

I gave him this site and told him to check it out and read some tutorials or something, if he doesn't want to do it then, at least he'll be well informed of the facts.

My parents think it's very cool, my brother gets angry when I talk about it. (He can't remember many dreams, so he is jeleous.) A few of my friends think it's cool, others think its strange. I think that this is pretty typical.

Yeah.. It also amazes me how people could be disinterested. Who wouldn't want a new experience such as lucid dreaming? I talk to my friends about it sometimes, but sometimes it hardly seems like they're listening. If one of my friends were talking to me about such an insane experience as a lucid dream, I'd listen very enthusiastically. It hardly seems like my friends listen at any other times... We mostly joke around with each other, but never seem to have real conversations.
Anyways, people are generally slighty interested, interested enough to have a conversation, or just won't listen, for me.

My brother thinks it's cool but doesn't want to put in the effort, my parents/friends don't really care much for it, my grandma thinks it's not real. She said to me the other day "You don't do those things like Myspaces and Youtubes, do you?".

My girlfriend is a low-lever LD'er, so she thinks its pretty neat. She does tend to be very curious about herself as a DC in my dreams, "What did I do, what did I say?", I tell her, "You nagged me mercilessly, just like always.". I gotta learn to stop saying stuff like that to her unless I'm dreaming....

My son, on the other hand is envious because he's wanted to be an LD'er for years, and he can't seem to do it.