So you wake up one morning, and you’ve just had one of the strangest dreams of your life. In fact, simply remembering a dream in the first place was strange, but the content was even stranger. What do you do? Most likely think about it for a minute or so, and then forget everything about it.

That is of course, if you’re like most of the US. I’m not sure about the rest of the world, but I know that here in the US of A, there is a decided non-importance placed on dreams. People probably wouldn’t even care about them at all if it wasn’t for the work of Jung and Freud. Many people are natural lucid dreamers, and have no idea what they could be using their dreams for. Most people don’t even remember their dreams, when they could easily be remembering at least a dream a night. Why this mass ignorance? Why do people give such little value and care to their dreams?

Society’s Values

Social norms are very anti-dreams at the worst, and at the best they consider dreams outside the norm. When you talk about dreams or anything related to a group of people, chances are you’ll get laughed at, maybe listened to for a little while, and then someone will change the topic. If, however, you talk to somebody one on one, chances are that they will want to talk about many experiences they’ve had that they haven’t had a chance to talk about. This is what my experience has shown, anyways.

The group smothers dreams, and the individual is left with nobody to discuss their experiences with. This leaves me with the conclusion that the perceived views of the masses influence the group dynamics of almost everybody, even when it is untrue for them.

So how do we combat this willful ignorance?
Spread the word about lucid dreaming! Tell people about why dreaming matters, and how it can be important in their own lives. Whether it be inducing lucid dreams, trying to dissect dream imagery, or just some entertainment for when you wake up, people can enrich their lives with their dreams. Get the word out by telling your friends about your favorite sites, like perhaps Dream Views, or Ld4all, or maybe even perhaps this humble blog.

Help remove the haze of ignorance that has smothered dreaming in society!
If you want to encourage people to spread the word, I’d be honored to have you spread this post around the dreaming community. The share button can help (it’s at the bottom of the page) or you could just link this article. Whatever your means, get the word out!

-Hatter

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