Personal Narrative: Lucid Dreaming

Lucid Dreaming How do you know the difference between being awake and being asleep? Is it the feeling of consciousness and total awareness of life? Or the numb passivity that comes with experiencing a single moment that otherwise holds no meaning? What happens when those two feelings blend and you don’t know one from the other? I hesitated my writing and allowed my mind to wander. Dreams. The realm of unreal turned reality. A place where the same intellect of a person lies but is used in divergent

thought, Wait, why am I here all by myself? And figured out I was just dreaming. Everything felt so realistic, the scent of popcorn lingered in my nose, people’s screams blared in my ears, and the sensations gained from rides never went away. When I woke up, questions swirled through my mind about the unbelievable dream I had last night. With the help from Google, I learned that what had happened was a phenomenon called lucid dreaming.

During lucid dreaming the person dreaming may be able to exert some control over the dream characters, narrative and environment. There are many example of scientific research that prove lucid dreaming exist. The first of which generated in UK sleep lab in 1975, from the British parapsychologist Dr. Keith Hearne. Most recently, a 2009 study by the Neurological Laboratory in Frankfurt revealed significantly increased brain activity during lucid dreams. To make your lucid dreams last longer

Know About Lucid Dreaming Chapter 1: Overview of Lucid Dreams Dreams have played a very crucial role to cultures through the years. The aborigines have believed that the stories of the world’ very start as the realization of their dreaming. Native Americans have believed that their dreams are doorways to the spiritual world, ways to quests and prophecies. The concept of lucid dreaming is not something new either. Aristotle is considered to be the first one to write about lucid dreaming; however

due the humans’ desire to see patterns in randomness. This is referred to as apophenia, the tendency to perceive patterns from unrelated things. I believe it is more like that the brain uses imagery from the subject’s day-to-day life, such as their personal worries and interests. To offer an example, I have had nightmares where my teeth have all fallen out. While online dream dictionaries hypothesize that this symbolizes my fear of transition in my life and loss, the true reason is due to the fact that

“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.” ― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams "My dream was grey and foggy. It started off at the beach with my 2 year old son and boyfriend. The beach was in a glass box. My son then had an identical twin and they were getting washed away by the water. I yelled for my boyfriend to help me but he refused to help. I finally was able to save my son and the twin from the waves. I Then take my son and walk out of the glass box. I no longer have

transitory state or lucid dreaming phenomena). Normal states of consciousness are associated with being awake. Sleeping states of consciousness are far more difficult to empirically observe. If we had not all had the occurrence of being involved in an experiential reality that we can only locate in time somewhere between last evening and this morning, we may be quite inclined to doubt the indicators for such activity. But, we have all had the common experience of dreaming. Finally, while waking

following rough spots occur only once each: "Unusual" (p. 5) translates weakly insolite, which has also the connotation of strange, disquieting, surprising, unexpected, and uncanny. A "slice of cinema" (p.14) would be preferable to a "piece of cinema." "Narrative agency" rather than "instance"; "de-realization"or "de-realizing" rather than "unrealizing." "A seminal concept" (p. 58) doesn 't really render une notion gigogne (again the idea of embedded concepts). The title of Lang 's film which is translated

be said”(13). It is a powerful poem highlighting a daughter’s deep love and admiration for her father who is no more. Whenever Meena Alexander feels bewildered and dislocated in her postcolonial world of experience, she finds “great solace in the lucid and frank centrality of her father’s vision of life”( Krishnakumari 126). Her father believed in leading an orderly life, and in keeping one’s emotions under firm control. Concrete and precise descriptions can be seen in Alexander’s poems, such as

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