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Lucid Dreaming Informative Speech Outline

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I. Grab Attention: We all know that flying and time traveling is impossible, but when we’re lucid dreaming these things become just the opposite. One moment you could be flying above the Titans stadium, and the next you’re having lunch with Elvis.
II. Reveal Topic: Today I want to inform you about lucid dreaming and the effects it can have.
III. Relate to Audience: This information may help someone you know or maybe even yourself if you’ve ever wonder about lucid dreaming.
IV. Speaker Credibility: I have extensively researched this topic through articles, scholarly journals and websites.
V. Preview Main Points: Today I will talk about dreaming and its history, lucid dreaming and teaching oneself how to learn it, and how it has had a positive effect on people.
Lucid dreaming gives us the ability to do anything we desire in our dreams with no consequences. Lucid dreaming is when someone who is …show more content…

Use trigger images. (While dreaming you cannot see your reflection, light switches are useless, and your hands could be disfigured such as having extra fingers.)

Connective: Now that I have given you some pointers to understand lucid dreaming, let’s take a look at how has it helped people with nightmares.
III. How Lucid Dreaming Has Helped People with Nightmares
A. According to Lucid Dreaming Treatment for Nightmares: A Pilot-Study, a scholarly article written by Victor Spoormaker and Jan van den Bout in 2005, Clinical Psychologist at Utrecht University claims individuals suffering from nightmares have found some relief through lucid dreaming.
1. Since lucid dreaming allows you to control your dreams, the ones suffering from nightmares have the ability to turn those nightmares into anything of their liking.
2. (Visual Aid) Chart displaying the results of an experiment done by Victor Spoormaker and Jan van den Bout to see if lucid dreaming reduced nightmares. They concluded lucid dreaming does decrease nightmare frequency but it is not necessary for reduction.

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