I read about Lucid Dreaming ages back and tried for a little while but gave up. I started again after telling my best friend about it. He got really excited and so we decided to encourage each other. He is very impressionable and had a couple of lucid dreams within the first few weeks of trying. He hasn’t been trying very hard lately but he had four last night. The funny thing is he was in such a bad mood that night that every time he realised he was dreaming he couldn’t be bothered to have a good time, he just continued sulking.
His brother is even more impressionable and after we told him about LD’s he had two in the first night and has had a couple more since then. In the most recent he was the Incredible Hulk.
I have told some of my other friends as well. One or two are interested but are too busy or lazy to work hard at it. Others don’t seem to see the point, which I find frustrating and hard to understand.
I introduced two friends into lucid dreaming, and they quite dwarf me in lucidity skill right now. One of them isn’t really into dreaming anymore but the other one is really making a hobby out of developing lucidity skills. As for me… I do my best. Because of my neuroticity I am having problems maintaining lucidity so I have little room to develop my skills. It just takes time to widen that room, to get over the neuroticity; I’m trying to do so in real life for I am sure it will happen in dreams too then.
As for the friend, he is having the dreamtime of his live. I always enjoy hearing his stories about new dream powers he got and the fun things he did with them.
A while back I told my friend about lucid dreaming. He was really interested, but he didn’t really stick with the metods and gave up. He never registered.
Also, one day in study hall, I was on this site, and 3 of my friends asked what I was on, I explained to them what the site was about and what lucid dreaming was. they both registered, but they don’t use their accounts and they don’t care about it anymore.
My other friend, I told her about it when I first came to Ld4all. She was really skeptical. Just a couple of months though, she registered and occasionaly lurks around here. She doesnt belive she can have and LD for herself…
None of my friends are interested in lucid dreaming but they dont give me weird looks when i talk about it so i’m guessing they dont think its weird or smt.
All the people i try to talk to about it, only close friends, dont really care nor find it interesting. Neither do any of my parents. Nugh. It is extremely perplexing – and not to mention annoying.
I would die for a friend that is just as in love with it as i am. I tell people i keep a dream journal, well, used to, but know i dont as they just ask me why and miss the point. So know whenever anyone talks about dreams i keep my mouth closed cause i just end up getting weird looks, lol.
I mean even today guys were talking about dreams and one described his, then the other boy was like ‘i watched myself sleeping. I could just see myself lying there asleep, how boring, of all the dreams to have.’ And the urge to say YOU WERE HAVING AN OOBE! Hit me hard - but i said nothing cause i would probably get laughed at –
BlueAndWhite, that is so close to my story… except I’m lucky to have two friends… Another friend of mine is as skeptical as my dad,which is very annoying, and another “friend” so to speak… yelled at me when I gave her the link… O_o oh well…
Weird how I found out I have two friends interested though… it just randomly came up in class and we got a crowd around… like… 10 people during class time, which is a record for me Then my friend, Lauren, said “ooh! You guys are talking about cool stuff like Lucid Dreaming!”
We got most of the crowd interested… for a day… and I’m trying to tell people it isn’t weird… including my parents… My dad thinks he doesn’t dream, so he doesn’t care…
Wow, same here. My dad is so convinced he doesnt dream. I think ive got my mum to LD once, cause i go on about all my methods to her and stuff, but she never pays much attention.
I do have one friend, whos …29? And we get on, he gets SP, and before i even knew about LDing we used to stay up for hours talking about normal dreams…
Ah, havent seen him for ages now, since hes just had a kid. =/
im trying to get my girlfriend into it its a slow proccess but i think she will enjoy it! we talked about shared dreaming but i think she was just taking the piss and didnt think it was real even tho she didnt disagree.
Argh, no kidding. I’ve managed to get a lot of friends interested in LDs, but none have really taken the next step and actually tried it out. Most of them just assume that it’s too advanced for them (“I don’t remember my dreams enough” is a common excuse ). I’m hoping to fix that, though; I’ve got a friend doing a psych paper on lucid dreams, and he wants to interview me. Who knows, mebbe I’ll finally rope one .
Haha! I just remembered how one of my friends thinks he remembers all of his dreams… but he normally gets the ones that are just plain black for a few seconds and then you wake up. Same thing as underscore, he thinks LDing is too advanced and he’d rather just sleep with nothing to bother him…
I’ll have to get my one friend and really convince people… I hope I can get someone to at least TRY… but I know they won’t…
one is too cool, one thinks it’s just a plain fad that’ll be over with in a month or so, and he doesn’t really want to join in for something like that. The rest just don’t care… no clue why…
Gah, no kidding! It’s like, “HEY! Don’t you realize what you’re missing out on?!” No matter how you explain it, a lot of people just don’t understand .
I recently did a book report on EWLD, and when people saw the cover they were curious, so I was able to tell my friends about lucid dreaming without having to bring it up, they asked out of their own curiosity. One of my friends even borrowed EWLD and used it to do the next assigned book report, but he didn’t read it all… I explained most of it to him though when he asked me to help him with the report, so he still learned a lot about it. My friends seem pretty accepting of it, they say it’s cool and joke about it a bit, but they seem a little interested, they just think it’s too hard. I’ve found that some of my more distant friends have actually read EWLD, which was pretty shocking for me, I thought I’d be the only one.
Yeah, you’d think the idea of a realistic fantasy world would be enough motivation for people…
i cant believe so many people aren’t interested in it. i tell them, you can do whatever you want. flying and super powers. once i heard about it i was hooked on it i read about it everyday. i have 2 friends interested but one isn’t motivated…
She doesnt belive she can have and LD for herself…
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One of my friends even borrowed EWLD and used it to do the next assigned book report, but he didn’t read it all… I explained most of it to him though when he asked me to help him with the report, so he still learned a lot about it. My friends seem pretty accepting of it, they say it’s cool and joke about it a bit, but they seem a little interested, they just think it’s too hard. I’ve found that some of my more distant friends have actually read EWLD, which was pretty shocking for me, I thought I’d be the only one.