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Lucid dreams

Everyone can admit dreaming is a bizarre mental state. It takes you to all kinds of places, throws
you back into a memory, and smashes together a kaleidoscope thing that in the real world would
be strange, like fishing for birds on the moon. To top it all off, you wake up and can hardly
remember any of it. Well, lucid dreaming dials all that to eleven. Not only that, it puts you in the
driver’s seat, letting you control the direction of the dream. Maybe you’ve had a lucid dream in
the past or want to find out how you can have one in the future? From the benefits of lucid
dreaming to the percentage of natural lucid dreamers, we’ve got some of your burning doubts
covered. Here are 25 Bizarre Facts About Lucid Dreaming.

25 - Lucid dreaming is when you can consciously control your dreams and may even experience
them like they're true life.

24 - It was first described by Dutch psychiatrist Frederick Van Eeden in 1923, recounting a
dream where he could voluntarily act but also knew he was dreaming.

23 - The only time you can lucid dream is during the REM sleeping stage. In this stage, your
muscles are still but your eye-movement is working in overtime.

22 - According to a study, over a quarter of the world's population will lucid dream at one point
in their lifetime.

21 - While some have been doubtful of lucid dreaming, scientists have proven it occurs thanks to
many conclusive studies. These studies include a break-through study at Hull University in 1975
and a study at Neurological Laboratory in Frankfurt in 2009 which studied brainwaves while
lucid dreaming.

20 - Nobody really knows why lucid dreams happen, but some studies have found people with
more gray matter in their brains, which is the substance around the cerebrum, tend to have them
more.

19 - While over half of the world's population will experience a lucid dream twice in their
lifetime, only about 20 percent will experience one per month.

18 - While people claim they have total control in a lucid dream, in reality, the amount of control
they truly have changes. No one really has total control.

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17 - Some claim lucid dreaming can be a good practice space to practice real-life activities, like
public speaking or standing up to your boss.

16 - According to one study, taking Vitamin B4 before sleeping could help with dream recall and
might even put you in a lucid dreaming state.

15 - Hundreds of studies have shown meditation can be great for your overall health, but it's also
a potentially key to unlocking lucid dreaming. Simply put, if you want to have more lucid
dreams, meditate.

14 - A study at Harvard University said that if you try to visualize what you want to dream about
before you go to bed, there's a chance you'll lucid dream about it that night.

13 - The same study also found if you think about a problem you want solved, you can be able to
solve it in your lucid dream. This especially goes for problems that need visuals to help come to
a solution.

12 - Some people are so good at lucid dreaming, they claim their dreams feel better than actual
reality.

11 - Lucid dreams might help you stop a bad habit. One lucid dreamer claimed they smoked for
14 years and couldn't quit, but once they started smoking in their lucid dreams, they quit in the
real world.

10 - The negative side effects can be feelings of intense fear, sorrow, and many other negative
emotions that might create a lucid nightmare.

9 - With that said, a big concern of lucid dreaming is something known as "dream
claustrophobia." It's when someone becomes lucid in a nightmare and are incapable to escape or
manipulate the situation.

8 - Another potential problem is sleep paralysis. Since your body is paralyzed but your mind is
awake, you might want to wake up and move your body, but can't. The helplessness involved
stirs up intense feelings of terror.

7 - In a 2009 study, scientists discovered that the brainwaves of lucid dreamers were different
than regular dreamers. They concluded this dream phase is a different state of consciousness.

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6 - A study done at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich recorded lucid dream
activity with an MRI; they could track what was occurring in the dream by watching the brain
activity.

5 - People who can lucid dream are believed to have heightened awareness and will notice things
most people don't.

4 - Another part of the lucid dreaming phenomenon is called "mutual dreaming" where people
tell each other where they have to meet in their dreams before falling asleep. When they meet
there in the lucid dream, they tell each other secrets and when they wake up, they see if they
know the secret.

3 - The Ancient Persians were very attuned to dreams and lucid dreams, believing they were
messages from the gods. They had trained seers that would advise on state matters and military
strategy.

2 - In some cases, people have orgasmed during a lucid dream which resulted in body reactions
as well. Not surprisingly, there's an entire subset of people trying to achieve this in lucid
dreaming.

1 - Tibetan Buddhists try to lucid dream in a practice called "Dream Yoga." They believe this
state can help them reach other planes of existence and speak with enlightened creatures.

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