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WHAT IS LUCID DREAMING?
In 1953 a scientist at the University of Chicago attached electrodes and sensors to the heads of sleeping people and discovered the fast, jerky eye movements that accompany dreaming (REM). He also found that all human beings dream, even those who claim they never do. Dreams occur four to five times a night in roughly ninety-minute cycles. So the question is not do we dream, but can we become aware and change our dreams.
A lucid dream is one in which the dreamer is “awake” and aware inside of a dream, and it used to be considered about as respectable as spontaneous human combustion until Stephen LaBerge came along...