Steff: Consider the source, and don't grace mistertom with another response. Uhhhh... and don't rip out his heart, please.
Tom: I believe Steff has had a lucid dream. Therefore your entire premise is flawed.
You have three choices:
1.) Revel in some neurotic desire to control people, ignoring the fact that you are wrong. (Only if you are neurotic, or a jerk)
2.) Drop it. (My choice)
3.) Come up with a whole new premise (one that no doubt includes calling me names as well), thereby wasting everyone's time and polluting the forum with nonsensical, counterproductive pap, since name-calling and the like is obviously something you enjoy. (I hope you choose to prove me wrong by not choosing this option.
Anyway, I'm pretty far from being a newbie to Lucid Dreaming since I do it almost every night, but I had never studied MILD in any detail. What I had read about it wasn't (in my mind) related to Steff's original post. That's not to say it isn't based on the same premise, but I just didn't make the connection. So for me, this was a very helpful post, and I don't understand the need of some people to constantly point out the fact that others are not as intellectual as they.
I mean, so FREAKING WHAT if someone's post has already been discovered by someone else, so long as they aren't claiming to be some sort of expert. Is it REALLY NECESSARY to revile someone for not having read the SAME FREAKING BOOK YOU READ? Why not let us newbies (
) have some fun in discovering things for OUR FREAKING SELVES!?!?!
Self-discovery is fine, and it's actually kind of nice when I realize one of my 'discoveries' was already discovered by someone else. It VALIDATES my thought process, methods, and overall skill level. What's more, (and I know this won't be popular) it also helps me feel BETTER ABOUT MYSELF. I know we're all supposed to feel like freaking CRAP for THINKING FOR OURSELVES, and we should all just be spoonfed the thoughts of others, but I DON'T BUY THAT.
If someone posts something that is total fantasy then MAYBE someone else has the right to judge or 'instruct' the original poster.
But when someone makes a valid point, or posts something helpful (and this is a question to which I would REALLY LIKE AN ANSWER) regardless of where the information came from, so long as that person isn't claiming to be some kind of expert, then what gives ANYONE the right to give that person crap?
He who owes nothing is rich enough.