Lucid dreaming - Popular culture

Lucid dreaming is the conscious perception of one's state while dreaming, enabling a more cogent ("lucid") control over the content and quality of the experience. The complete experience from start to finish is a lucid dream. Stephen LaBerge, a popular author and experimenter on the subject, has defined it as "dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming." [1] There are many unanswered questions about lucid dreaming, and about dreaming itself. LaBerge and his associates have called people who purposefully explore the pos ...

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The most important aspect in lucid dreaming is to recognize that one is dreaming. Any time that a person recognizes a dream sign, or anything that is out of the ordinary, they should perform a reality test as stated below. Many people report having experienced a lucid dream during their lives, often in childhood. However, even with training, achieving lucid dreams on a regular basis can be difficult and is uncommon. Despite this difficulty, techniques have been developed to achieve a lucid dreaming state intentionally. A number of uni ...

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Even though it has only come to the attention of the general public in the last few decades, lucid dreaming is not a modern discovery. It is in the fifth century that we have the earliest written testimony of a lucid dream — in a letter written by St. Augustine of Hippo in 415 A.D. And even as early as the eighth century, the Tibetan Buddhists were practising a form of yoga supposed to maintain full waking consciousness while in the dream state. An early recorded lucid dreamer was the philosopher and physician Sir Thomas Browne (160 ...

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Lucid dreaming, Lucid dreaming - Achieving and recognizing lucid dreams, Lucid dreaming - Ability, Lucid dreaming - Common techniques, Lucid dreaming - Other phenomena associated with lucid dreaming, Lucid dreaming - Things to do while lucid dreaming, Lucid dreaming - History of lucid dreaming research, Lucid dreaming - Popular culture, Lucid dreaming - Books

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