Lucid dreaming...... what is it?

Answer 1

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming

Lucid dreaming
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Lucid dreams occur during REM sleep after the person becomes conscious and aware of dreaming within the dream.Wikibooks has more about this subject:
Lucid DreamingLucid dreaming is the conscious perception of one's state while dreaming, resulting in a much clearer ("lucid") experience and usually enabling direct control over the content of the dream.[1] The complete experience from start to finish is called a lucid dream. Stephen LaBerge, a popular author and experimenter on the subject, has defined it as "dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming."[2]

LaBerge and his associates have called people who purposely explore the possibilities of lucid dreaming oneironauts (literally from the Greek meaning "dream explorers"). The topic attracts the attention of a diverse and eclectic group, namely psychologists, self-help authors, New Age groups, mystics, occultists, and artists. This list is by no means exhaustive nor does interest in lucid dreaming apply necessarily to each group.

Lucid dreamers regularly describe their dreams as exciting, colourful, and fantastic. Many compare it to a spiritual experience and say that it changed their lives or their perception of the world. Some have even reported lucid dreams that take on a hyperreality, seemingly "more real than real", where all the elements of reality are amplified. Lucid dreams are prodigiously more memorable than other kinds of dreaming, even nightmares, which may be why they are often prescribed as a means of ridding one's self of troubling dreams.

Although clear and consistent knowledge is difficult to find among the many interpretations of the experience — especially considering its highly subjective nature — the validity of lucid dreaming as a scientifically verified phenomenon is well-established. It may be classified as a protoscience, pending an increase in scientific knowledge about the subject. Researchers such as Allan Hobson with his neurophysiological approach to dreaming have helped to push the understanding of lucid dreaming into a less speculative realm.

Answer 2

When you are dreaming and have that thought: OH! This is a dream, WHILE you are actually dreaming. Then, if you "think" in the dream, I'll just go to the other side of this room and look out that window... and you DO IT in the dream... that is an example of Lucid dreaming. You are in the REM state, and you are dreaming, but there is a part of your brain that is conscious.

I did it once and in the dream, I looked into a mirror. It wasn't ME in the reflection! Wild.

Answer 3

when you know that you are dreaming during a dream. You can also control everything in a lucid dream and do what ever you want. Also, everything looks exactly like in real life, not like a regular dream.

Answer 4

Lucid just means clear. When you have a lucid dream, it's almost real with its clarity.

Answer 5

thats remembering something you dont remember in a dream

Answer 6

It's when you can tell yourself what to do and control your dreams.