The Wikibook || Odd comment

[r3m0t]

Hello everybody.

I thought that the monthly hit stats had been removed, but they haven’t. I’ve updated this accordingly.

The wikibook appears to have been stunningly popular. To the main page, ~1300 hits in July, ~2000 in August, ~1500 in September, and probably ~1700 in October. (See this noting the date it was generated.)

Party!

[Jay]

congratz!!

at the moment I have 3 Wiki related sites , actually more tikiwiki sites. And thought of creating one for LD4ALL but now I see that you guys have one and it rocks! keep up the good work. If you would need some help in tweaking this thing, let me know I’ve done some tweaking for my job

[r3m0t]

It looks like the lucid dreaming wikibook will be the book of the month (by vote). This will mean that it gets a nice place on the front page, and there might be a synopsis and/or a picture involved. (Like the front page of the English Wikipedia).

Anyway, I’m going to open a new page on wikibooks for the “short synopsis”.

[milod789]

Good work r3m0t and everyone else who worked on it.

[r3m0t]

We got the book of the month award for February! The grand result can be seen on the front page of wikibooks. Yes, a valuable space on the front page!

Also I can put a nice red box at the top of the wikibook saying how wonderful I am.

We got 12 votes, and the runners-up were “Physics Study Guide” (6), “US History” (4), “Teaching Assistant in France Survival Guide” (3), and “General Biology” (2). See?

and, of course, (in moderation, folks!)

[Qu (aka pasQuale)]

congratulations r3m0t and all others who have worked on it! great job, well done!

[milod789]

good work people.

Next we take over the world

[jk_himself]

the wiki book is awesome. I think that’s all that needs to be said. I’m not a complete newb to LDs but it’s the most complete source I’ve seen.

Bravo!

[r3m0t]

The wikibook recieved a rather odd post in its discussion page. I’ve replied to it, but I’m inclined to think that I was trolled.

The post, and my reply, can be viewed in full glory here.

Essentially “Rainbird” said that the approach in the book to induce lucid dreams was completely wrong. Juicy quotes:

The secret to lucid dreaming is not esoteric mind control techniques. The secret to lucid dreaming, is for the person to understand how his night time thinking processes work, enough to be able to have some agility with them, as he uses them, at night.

I would never be as foolish as to follow your blind advice in this book

And from my reply:

Hundreds of people on the LD4all forum, Dreamviews.com forum, and alt.dreams.lucid USENET group have reported wonderful lucid dreams without any such psychotic episodes.

As a final note, thank you for your feedback. I’m always happy to see people speaking up their views.

[Basilus_West]

I just discover that the Wikibook got the month award for February 2005 ! Congrats !
About the odd comment, you have to know that there are a lot of people who are sure that they have understood the whole universe.

@Rainbird

The secret to lucid dreaming is not esoteric mind control techniques. The secret to lucid dreaming, is for the person to understand how his night time thinking processes work, enough to be able to have some agility with them, as he uses them, at night.

Moreover, he says that lucidity means understanding how your brain works. I’m sorry for him, but

• a lot of neuropsychiatrists know exactly how it works and this don’t give them the faintest LD. If it was the case, LD’s would be far better known by neuropsychiatrists.
• the definition of lucidity is “knowing you’re dreaming” and not “knowing how you brain works by night”.

I hope the wikibook will not be polluted by such people who don’t obviously know anything about LDing. These sort of stupid problems are the counterpart of celebrity !