Lucid Dreaming Revisited
- lucid dream references date back at least to Aristotle, and the Dutch psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden coined the term lucid dreaming almost 80 years ago.
- modern surveys indicate that most adults can recall at least one lucid dream and that roughly one person in ten has such dreams regularly, once a month or more
- at that time, many sleep researchers believed lucid dreams to be simply delusions occurring during brief arousals from sleep.
- lucid dreams occur during a phase of sleep marked by rapid eye movement, commonly called REM sleep, when ordinary dreams occur.
- dream activities--including singing, counting numbers, and sex--evoke much the same neural and physiological responses as corresponding experiences do in real life
- studies have shown that most dreams occur at the tail end of a good eight- or nine-hour stretch of sleep
- many people interested in dreams have "what may unkindly be called superstitious beliefs
- lucid dreams could have therapeutic value
- searching for drugs that might increase the intensity of dreams and thereby the likelihood of lucidity
- dreaming is the basic function of the brain in understanding the world
what are things we can do to change the outcomes of our dreams?
is there a way to improve the rememberance of our dreams?
This a really interesting topic. There is a new television drama on Thursday night at 9pm on NBC called "AWAKE" that is all about this exact topic. I'm not much of a TV watcher but this program is interesting to me because in it, the main character moves back and forth between two realities and doesn't know in which realty he is asleep and when he is really awake. Might be worth a look just to see the concept presented in that format.
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