Why “dreaming” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
He apparently started in the early 1980s (if not sooner), since his first book on the subject was published in 1985. Here's a blurb from his 1989 book: "Exploring the World of L…
by CharlesW · Oct 31, 2026
SP was often discussed in lucid dreaming forums. It's unpleasant but not really dangerous. I've induced it a handful of times; it's a state between wakefulness and sleep and the…
by ashleyn · Oct 31, 2026
Hah! We were doing this on lucid dreaming forums back in the 2000s, it was called "reality checking" or "RCs". Basically you want to build the habit of noticing anything even sl…
by ashleyn · Oct 31, 2026
We've Stopped Dreaming
by Bluestein · Oct 31, 2026 · 5 points
But my dear friends, they were already dreaming
by jaydayvis · Oct 31, 2026
This is beautiful, thank you! I just asked Deepseek 4.1 Flash to convert it to an Obsidian extension that uses the file-name as the seed, and the result [1] is exactly something…
by ClaraForm · Oct 30, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "dreaming" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "dreaming" over time.