Poll: Will you ever give up LD and go back to normal dreams?

Since you are informed(and maybe experienced youself) that it is possible to be awake while dreaming and explore a world of endless possibilities, would you ever go back to normal dreaming? To me, its seems like Lucid Dreaming is more than just a hobby, but almost a lifestyle. How could someone just turn their back on it years in the future and resume their sleeplife of blind dreaming. Now maybe some people might not be worried about Lucid Dreams several years in the future, but will you at least still continue to acknowledge and recall your dreams every night? I understand some newcomers first hear about Lucid Dreaming and are quickly discouraged from failure, but once you are deeply involved and have had at least one yourself I don’t think theres any turning back .

My biggest wish is for LD to be accepted widely by the public instead of people giving you the that look like your psycho when you mention it . I can just imagine millions of people around the world with the NovaDreamer or DreamLight as a common household device .

So what do you think? What do you see your dream life like 5,10, or 20 years later?

Personally I say… LUCID DREAMZ 4 EVAR!!!

Agreed! I have no intention at all to give up LDs, ever! But still sometimes NDs can be very interesting and really great. However that doesn’t mean I’d stop with LDs because of it. When I have a great ND I just enjoy it and when it sucks I just make it LD if I can. I can have both

Short answer: No!

Highly doubtful. Now that I know you can LD, even if I wanted to give it up, Every once and awhile I’d still realize I was dreaming =P.

Noway! Not even for a 500 dollar check!

Jeff

I wish, then laberge could lower the price to resonable levels

I sorta did that. During the summer, I was too lazy to bother to write down my dreams or do any RCs for lucid dreaming, I basically normal dreamed the whole time. The thing was, since I could remeber my dreams more than the normal person, I still had fun(my normal dreams are pretty vivid). I don’t think I will lose my ability to remember my dreams so remembering my dreams will always be a constant reminder about LDs. Everytime I get a great dream, it makes me what LDs even more.

When my ability to remember dreams started to wane, I was desparate to get the ability back. I’ll probaly have a dream diary all my life. Every morning, writing in it is a chore unless the dream was exceptional. Yet, when I stopped doing it, I felt like a exciting part of my life was missing.

Ach, well, I haven’t had an LD yet (Count: ~6 months?), but I don’t think I’ll stop trying for a while…I’m getting a lot more relaxed on it though.
Maybe I should pick up some more of the techs and stuff and start trying harder.

hmmm there is no way i am going to give it up. I am going to base my entire life on this and i intend to research it too. So one day you will see me talking about lucid dreaming and i wont be shy bout it eiter. i love this stuff and nothing could ever stop me from that.

I tend to have a pretty relaxed view about LDs, I just wait for one, and then when I have one, I think of what I want to do in the next one I don’t think I’d ever be able to not realize I’m dreaming for that reason… so… no

That would be like eating regular canned tuna after having tasted Albacore.

lol what???

I’ve had LD’s for most of my 40 year old life, long enough to tell you this. It’s a bit like riding a bike, once you have it down you will never forget how to do it. You will still go through phases of interest but other things in life come along like work, babies - all sorts of things to distract your interest. Sometimes you get so busy you won’t remember a single dream for ages.

For me the interest has waxed and waned - a bit like the moon. But it will always be there when the interest reignites.

I would never give up on LD’ing not even for $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. No way!

Nope I’l never give up LD’ing.
But I still like to have NDs.

I don’t think I could. Back a couple months ago when the cartoons in the morning all became boring and so WBTB was deemed impossible I tried to give up. In that small period I had more LD’s and much better quality LD’s in two weeks than I had had in the months before it. It surprised the hell outa me and reminded me how fun they could be when they work.

I would agree if I was a lucid master like you, DM7.
But for me, anything over $999,999,999,999,999,999,999 might just buy me off if I’m not successful enough within one year… but if I improve, I can have anything I want, so money wouldn’t be a factor, would it?

And I too am pushed ahead a bit when I give up. But it only works once every giving up. And the getting back on my feet part has to last at least a week. It’s like my subconscious is taunting me with a taste of what I could be getting.

noooooo! Never! In the summer, I relaxed and gave my self a break from excessive RC’s and didn’t try and force myself into LD’s through WBTB exc. becasue I wanted to give my mind a break to see if that would increase LD’s when I went back to it (stupid idea but strangly enough it worked) But I still couldn’t give up RCs all together, and I found myself longing to be on LD4all I guess I’m addicted to lucid dreaming, oh well!

If I would have to make a choice between being the richest person on earth (I would have EVERYTHING I could ever want) but with no ability to LD, or being a rather poor person with no luxury at all, but who has the ability to LD, I’d DEFINITELY pick the last option. I don’t have to think about that. I prefer being poor on the outside instead of being poor on the inside. No way I’ll ever give up LDing!!

Never Never Never Never Never Never Never will I ever give up Lucid Dreams! I have practically made LD’s my life and I havent gave up yet. I promise to go on forever with Lucid Dreams. I will never switch…never!

I’d take the money.