17.6.07

Lucid Dreamer


WHAT IS LUCID DREAMING?

Lucid dreaming means dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. The term was coined by Frederik van Eeden who used the word "lucid" in the sense of mental clarity. Lucidity usually begins in the midst of a dream when the dreamer realizes that the experience is not occurring in physical reality, but is a dream. Often this realization is triggered by the dreamer noticing some impossible or unlikely occurrence in the dream, such as flying or meeting the deceased. Sometimes people become lucid without noticing any particular clue in the dream; they just suddenly realize they are in a dream. A minority of lucid dreams (according to the research of LaBerge and colleagues, about 10 percent) are the result of returning to REM (dreaming) sleep directly from an awakening with unbroken reflective consciousness.

Someone asked if i was a 'lucid dreamer'....never actually thought about it till now...thre are times that i've realised that am in a dream but could never take control of the events in the dream....i just start to see MORE weird stuff after realising its a dream...best way to get such dreams is to wake up early in the mornin n' then go back to sleep, somehow thats wen i've experienced most of the psychedelic ones..

1 comment:

Alex said...

hmm..lucid dreaming...i am yet to meet the deceased in my dreams..but i fly in my dreams..and i enjoy dying in my dreams.

 
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