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### - someone called scott robertson posted this article on fb, asking for
a review of it, by said d.love; someone who apparently wrote a few
well-known books on lucid dreaming: the dild-way hah! :)
https://www.thelucidguide.com/post/wild-vs-dild-the-clash-of-the-preferences?fbclid=IwAR15clVwdnl4fAjO5gV7alndNvRo-ta-NZo-zf3_zeenHmipBSsLglCt_4g
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and this was what i wrote back to scott about it:
Haha, well I like what 'you' wrote but not what he wrote heh, he's out of
date for a start and, apparently, desperately trying to reserve dilds as
being the method of choice for the many, not because that's necessarily
the best all-round option (he prevaricates all over the place about that)
but because he simply wants everyone to be different and/or to fall into
neat little convenient/identifiable categories we can then hang a label
on...
It's thus not an honest debate on his part imho, and is just that guy
giving his own biased opinion based of what he personally likes/dislikes
and prefers, even though he then goes on to pour scorn of such
preconceptions & beliefs like he doesn't include himself in that?
Basically, from his pov, it comes across as though he's under threat from
the advent of WILD, he wants radical change and upgrades for the
community, and even dreams of them existing in the future, just so long as
it's not WILDs? (he thus defers to the future and says he doesn't know?)
His information is also dated: WILDs do NOT, for example, require using
wbtb for instance, they're also not at all difficult or disorientating as
he suggests they are; rather the opposite actually (he says he WILDs but doesn't like them 'coz it makes him feel dizzy? And no one has ever
described them like that to my knowledge, so this makes me doubt he's
actually done it...)
Nope, his debate is actually a dishonest one, singularly designed in this instance to put people off rather than to contrast & compare the subject matter; he's not being impartial here and yet is accusing others of being precisely that...
I dunno why, perhaps because he's so heavily invested in dilds,
personally, that to change streams now would seem like undermining
everything he's stated and stood by to date, which, as it goes heh, is precisely what understanding WILDs does! It blows the lid off of lucid
dreaming and reveals it for what it really is!
I mean, so what if everything people 'thought' about dilds was/is wrong? Wouldn't that still represent a great advance?? I guess some people might,
with hindsight, then feel a bit silly for having put all their eggs in the
one basket with such zeal (like Laberge did) and then preaching such a
gospel to all & sundry as being the final word & say, i can see that could
be fairly embarrassing i suppose, especially if one is not given to change and/or doesn't relish the prospect...
imho, he's got nada to be ashamed of (and neither does Laberge), for it
was these people's job to first bring lucid dreaming to the publics
attention, and yes it was all about dilds, probably because that made the
most sense (dreams happen in your sleep so waking up in them is what it's
all about: very logical... albeit it a little shortsighted?)
Only, of course, it's got nothing to do with logic and never did!
Scientific principles create that illusion, that everything easily all
adds-up & makes clear sense, only every time they peer out into the
universe it's completely different to what they ever expected?
Well ditto with our dreaming stuff too; dilds are a part of it for sure,
but are not the whole equation... And while dilds have been exhaustively researched the same cannot yet be said about WILDs?
Fortunately for all of us though, quite a few people are now having good success with WILDing that goes way beyond any previous + limiting
descriptions of them, and just this very success is posing the questions
that will ultimately have to be answered and a real + genuine debate on
WILDs Versus DILDS with then ensue and no doubt illuminate us all :)
(just my 2-cents heh)
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and which, i suggest, is bloody accurate! ;)
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