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Essay / Lucid dreaming: the act of being awake and conscious in...
Although lucid dreaming originated as a means of explaining the nature of the eyes with which we see in dreams, it is became known as the psychological approach to dreams that one can experience during the REM sleep phase. As early as the 8th century, Tibetan Buddhists practiced yoga to maintain full awareness in a dream state, better known as lucid dreaming. Over the past two decades, experiments have been performed to prove that lucid dreaming exists. Scientists have discovered that there is a correlation between the content and frequency of experimental subjects. Lucid dreams are dreams in which one is aware that they are dreaming, and lucid dreamers can exercise some degree of participation and control over their dreaming. Lucid dreams offer the opportunity to experience unique and fascinating adventures rarely surpassed elsewhere in life. They have the potential to promote personal growth and development, build self-confidence, improve mental and physical health, facilitate creative problem solving, and help progress on the path to mastery of self. The suggestion that lucid dreaming might improve quality of life applies to both daytime and nighttime experiences. During these dreams we remain fully aware of the fact that we are dreaming, so in a sense we are both “awake” and “sleeping”. Lucid dreaming also helps promote more flexible and creative responses to unexpected situations, and people who experience lucid dreams will likely be more motivated to try new behaviors leading to psychological growth and positive changes in their waking lives. Despite the fact that lucid dreamers are in their dreams, they are not quite in reality. This allows us to face otherwise frightening nightmares and anxieties head on, allowing...... middle of paper...... eating underwater can happen. Usually, sleep is the main character in a lucid dream, but not always. Sometimes the actor in the dream is not the dreamer and sometimes he plays no role at all. Variation in how we remember things also leads to differences in what happens in otherwise lucid dreams. The lowest levels of motivation and expectation are drives, then desires, expectations, and finally ideas or goals. Learning to lucid dream is a skill that can be acquired or improved through training, and in order to recognize that one is dreaming. You have to have an idea of what the dream is. There are many functions and meanings of the dream. We dream for physiological reasons and for psychological reasons. These dreams always contain important messages about us. We can learn a lot from lucid dreaming, and I advise everyone to try it at least once in their life..