So whatever you're doing right now: stop,
sit down, and pay attention.
This could be one of the most important videos on lucid dreaming
that you will ever see --
and it will save you years of potential frustration and disappointment.
So regardless of whether you like my face or my voice,
or any of that, challenge yourself to watch this video
to the very end, and then make up your own mind.
Let's get started.
Hi Dreamers! So you want to learn how to lucid dream
tonight -- quickly.
Perfectly fair thing to want to do --
and so you've clicked on a video called
"How to Lucid Dream TONIGHT in SECONDS".
Millions of people do this every single day.
You're not unusual. But you're also not completely without blame.
Now, I didn't like creating a clickbait thumbnail or title.
It made me feel a little bit sick to do that.
But this was the only way to get the message to the people who
are searching for this particular thing.
Now, before I go any further, I want you to write in the comments
why you want to be able to lucid dream tonight,
and why you think that's possible.
So you searched for "How to lucid dream tonight",
and you will have been faced with a whole bunch of choices.
You will have got endless videos just saying, you know,
"How to Lucid Dream Tonight for Beginners", "How to Lucid Dream Tonight for Beginners",
"How to Lucid Dream Tonight in 5 Steps",
"How to Lucid Dream Tonight in 3 Minutes"...
Just endless... the same nonsense.
How to lucid dream "in a few minutes", "in a few seconds".
It doesn't matter which it is -- you get a lot of options.
But there's one thing I want you to ask yourself.
Do you think that learning how to lucid dream --
this complicated skill, this psychological hacking of the mind,
something we barely understand -- is more or less easy
than learning how to drive?
So I'll tell you straight out: it's harder
than learning how to drive a car.
And we all know how long that takes.
So when we look back at those videos saying
"Lucid Dream in 1 Minute" -- let's try swapping things around.
So you're an intelligent human being.
I respect your intelligence, and hopefully,
you respect yourself as well.
So if you wanted to learn how to drive, and we know that
that is easier than learning how to lucid dream --
would you trust videos that said the following?
I'm just going to swap out "lucid dreaming" for "learn how to drive".
So. "How to Learn to Drive Tonight in 2 Minutes".
Nonsense. You wouldn't believe it, would you?
"How to Learn to Drive in 3 Minutes".
"Learn How to Drive in 3 Minutes (46% Success Rate)".
This is one of the worst offenders, to be honest, this particular channel.
"How to Drive TONIGHT for Beginners".
"How to Learn to Drive in Just 5 Minutes".
Obviously -- you're a smart person -- you would know that's nonsense.
If you were a beginner driver
and you followed a video that said something like that,
you would end up in a crash. You would never learn how to drive.
So... Why is it any different for lucid dreaming?
Don't give these people the attention. They don't deserve it.
They don't respect your intelligence.
Now, here's a riddle for you. Let's see if you're smart enough to answer this
before I give you the answer. Ok, so...
There are hundreds of these videos.
Now, if any of them were true,
if there were a video that could teach you how to lucid dream tonight,
in 1 second, or 1 minute, or 2 minutes, or 3 minutes...
A channel that uploaded a video like that --
how many other videos on lucid dreaming
would they need to upload? So I'm just going to say that again.
If you had a video that could teach you how to lucid dream tonight,
in 3 minutes -- how many videos would a channel on lucid dreaming
need to upload?
So let's look at one of the absolute worst offenders for this --
the channel Explore Lucid Dreaming.
Now, the question, remember, is
"How many videos would you need to upload about lucid dreaming
if you had a true video that could tell you how to lucid dream tonight?"
Now, let's see how many Explore Lucid Dreaming has on their channel.
So straight off the bat we have
"Lucid Dream for Beginners -- How to Lucid Dream Tonight".
Ok, is that video true? Because if so, you know,
why is there also "Lucid Dream Tonight in 5 minutes"?
Why is there also "How to Lucid Dream Fast for Beginners"?
"How to Lucid Dream Easily for Beginners"?
There are an awful lot of videos on here with exactly the same title.
And the very latest video, right down here at the bottom...
In fact, I don't think you can see it, but let's just go back to their
main page.
The very latest video -- which I assume is going to be their last video --
is "Lucid Dream in 3 Minutes (46% Success Rate)".
So...
Have you answered the question?
Because the answer should be
"If you had a video that could teach you how to lucid dream tonight,
in 3 minutes,
then you would need *one* video on your channel."
Because that would be the only video you would ever need to upload.
It would have solved lucid dreaming.
So this person uploading these videos
with the same title, or the same kinds of title, over and over again,
knows before they've even started
that they're lying to you.
They know that the title isn't reflective
of what they're teaching you. In fact, what this particular person is
teaching you is mostly a massive amount of misinformation
and incorrect details on lucid dreaming.
But they know, before they've even uploaded,
that what they're telling you isn't true.
Because it can't be -- because otherwise, they would only ever
upload one video. It's obvious, isn't it?
It's absolutely obvious. If you had cracked it, you would need
no more than one video. So...
Why does this channel have more than one video
saying the same thing when the promise is that you can guarantee
a lucid dream tonight easily?
Madness.
Ok, so telepathic Daniel switched on now:
I know in the comments there are going to be some people saying,
"Oh, but you're just jealous of this channel having such a huge amount of subscribers".
Obviously, yeah. Obviously I'm going to be a little bit jealous
of a channel going from zero subscribers to half a million
in an incredibly, suspiciously short amount of time.
But I am a lucid dream teacher.
I've been teaching lucid dreaming for over two decades.
I've written one of the most popular books on the topic.
I am not jealous of someone who is sharing misinformation with you.
I'm not jealous of someone who is willing to tell you a lie.
Because we've just established
those video titles cannot be true. They are, by default,
a lie.
You can't tell someone, "Lucid dream tonight in 3 minutes"
and have more than one video on that topic,
because otherwise, you are, by default,
contradicting yourself. You are saying,
"Look, I need to keep uploading videos telling you how to do it tonight,
"because the last one didn't work".
So why do you believe the next one is going to work?
Don't trust these people. And no,
I'm not jealous. I just cannot stand
people disrespecting you and disrespecting your intelligence,
and disrespecting this wonderful, amazing topic.
Anyway, let's get back to these charlatans.
So clickbait and hype are not new.
Stefan from HowToLucid has been doing it since 2015 now.
And, I mean, if we just look through his videos here,
you can just see a very similar style to Explore Lucid Dreaming.
Lots of very hyped kinds of things going on.
Now, Stefan -- nice guy. Nice chap. He's very friendly.
This kind of clickbaity stuff I really can't get behind.
I'm not a big fan of his content.
But he's a nice enough chap.
He's not... I don't think he's out to scam you. I think he's just really
addicted to the clicks,
and doesn't see that this is actually really misleading.
But Stefan has been doing this since 2015.
He has... Let's see.
94K subscribers.
Pretty much the same stuff as ELD in form of content,
and he's been doing it for a really, really long time.
Now...
I just want to bring up something that's been bothering me for a long time
and that people seem to be blind to.
So Stefan -- he's been doing his channel since 2015.
94K subscribers. Bear that in mind, ok?
So Explore Lucid Dreaming uploaded his very first video
to this channel on the 5th of January 2019.
It was called "How to Lucid Dream in 5 Steps".
Now, back then, he had about 100 subscribers.
Back on January the 5th 2019.
Pretty much less than a year and a half ago.
So if we pop over to Social Blade,
which is a site that allows you to dig into the statistics of a channel,
we can see a little bit more information about this when going on here.
Now, bear in mind, this channel uploaded--
in early 2019 has only made 44 uploads,
and now has 519K subscribers
That's...
so many more than Stefan, who has been doing exactly the same
clickbaity, hypey spam misinformation content
for much longer. So why...
Why is this particular channel doing so... "well"?
Now, let's pop down to the statistics at the bottom,
because this is really, really interesting.
And I know you're intelligent people and you're going to see this
as easily as I can. But most of you probably don't look at things like this.
So let's look down at these graphs here. So we've got...
Total subscribers for Explore Lucid Dreaming
on a week-to-week basis.
And we can see, early on,
he's got hardly any subscribers.
So April the 4th: 197.
April the 27th: 242.
We pop forward, and he's got up to a reasonable
6,400 by June the 17th.
But if we pop back,
we can see there's quite a big jump here.
We go from April the 27th to 242 subscribers,
and then, just a couple of weeks later,
3,717 subscribers. That's odd, isn't it?
That's a very, very large jump.
But it's not that large. I mean, look, the line is pretty flat. But here we go.
Even though it grows kind of suspiciously a lot to start with...
Ok, so 14K subscribers.
And bear in mind that this channel has only uploaded since around here.
So hardly any time at all of uploading videos. And then, one day,
the channel goes from 14K
to 146K.
So that's July the 3rd to June the 11th.
That's in a month.
Actually, no! Sorry. July the 3rd to July the 11th.
So in less than a week,
a jump from 14K to 146K.
From unknown YouTuber
with no background in lucid dreaming,
no endorsement by someone who's hugely famous,
no appearance on TV, nothing at all --
at all -- to make this channel jump out,
and video content that is really no better...
In fact, I would say it's worse than HowToLucid's
clickbaity, hype misleading content.
So why on Earth
does this channel grow so insanely quickly
with no logical reason behind it? It is mental.
And to me, this screams "Artificial".
And then you see, from there on,
you just get these massive lumps.
And also, if we look up at the views...
Look at these unnatural spikes here and here.
And we just keep getting these unnatural spikes all over this channel.
It's really, really suspicious.
So what am I saying with this video?
Firstly, I'm saying "Don't click on hype and clickbait
"and videos that are clearly lying to you".
Because you're better than this. You're really better than this.
And I'm assuming you really want to learn how to lucid dream, right?
You actually have a genuine interest.
Make this video the last time you ever click on anything clickbaity like this.
And also, bear in mind that the people who upload these videos
know that they are misleading you. They know that they're not telling the truth,
for all the reasons we've gone over in this video already.
They disrespect your intelligence.
And also, bear in mind that if you dig into these channels
and you look at their history,
it's incredibly suspicious.
It doesn't look natural.
So we've got lots of elements here.
We've got someone who doesn't respect you,
someone who's uploading content with hype
that is a clear lie.
The content itself is misleading and contains misinformation
about lucid dreaming. So this is going to set you back a long time.
You're going to fill your mind with nonsense.
And we have someone who
has a suspicious-looking history --
something that you never see on any other channel.
And I suggest you go Social Blade and you
search a few other channels and you see how their growth looks.
Learn how channels grow naturally, and then compare.
So do you want to learn how to lucid dream from
sources that misinform you from the very get-go,
have a suspicious background and
disrespect your intelligence? If you don't,
then don't give these people your attention.
I really hope this video helps save some of you
from being misled, and that you can learn to lucid dream --
this wonderful skill -- truly.
If you're subscribed to these channels...
You know what to do. I don't need to tell you what to do.
You shouldn't be. You really shouldn't be.
You know, as with the driving metaphor --
do you want to crash your lucid dreaming car? I don't think you do.
So I hope this helps.
Yeah. That's all I've got to say on this topic.
I really hope that you've got this far through.
I know there will be a bunch of hate, and I know that
you will probably see that there's a huge amount of downvotes on this video.
Because someone who is able to get a bunch of views so easily
may have special means to mass downvote something.
So I'd be surprised if this video even survives being uploaded, to be honest,
but... your support in spreading this information
so that we can stop other people being misled
is hugely appreciated. So remember, comment, like --
do all the YouTube twaddle -- share this video widely,
on forums, Reddit, any way you can.
Let's stop people being misled. Let's keep lucid dreaming as
a subject based around honesty and decency
and true information.
I'm Daniel Love, The Lucid Guide --
and until next time, stay lucid!