Rapid Eye Movement and Lucid Dreaming

For many centuries, people would think of dreaming as curses or blessings that we can not fend off or operate. Lucid dreaming, a dream in which a dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming; they may be able to control the dream by exert amount. In this dream stage, we perform superhuman features that would be impossible when we’re awake. While a person dreams, these wonderful things become a temporality reality. Researchers says that a average person dreams four to six times a night(insert). Many people dream every night without even realizing that their dreams can be controlled. Others might not give too much care about the dreams that they might experienced. Lucid dreaming can turn scary dreams into happy dreams, or happy dreams into more relaxed ones. This method of dreaming can provide the dreamer endless ways to control their subconscious which can provide enjoyable experiences.

Dreaming, although a substantial component of our nighttime lives, remains somewhat of an enigma due to the fact that it occurs while we are unconscious. The inaccessibility of the unconscious mind weakens full analysis and comprehension of dreaming which researchers have been attempting to accomplish. However, over the years many researchers have elucidated many mysteries about dreams, such as when we dream, why we dream, and what we dream about, in order to bring forth an understanding of dreams as well as identify

We spend six years of our lives in sleep and many of us do not think about what occurs while asleep. Everyone has experienced more than a few dreams while asleep, that is because, whether you know it or not, everyone dreams while asleep. Based off the Activation Information Mode Model theory, dreams are random neurological firings that have no particular meaning. The reason dreams feel so real and personal is because they are based from recent memories located in the brainstem. Although dreams are meaningless, our brain tries to make connections. Through the Activation Information Mode model people are able to analysis personal dreams.

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the actuality of lucid dreaming and using different methods to control their lucid dreams

Holzinger, G. Klosch, and B. Saletu (2015) at the Institute for Consciousness and Dream Research involved an initial forty participants, thirty females and ten males, ranging in age from twenty to fifty-nine. All participants were volunteers recruited through unspecified media (Holzinger et al., 2015). The only pre-requirement, as stated in the advertisement, was for participants to be experiencing frequent nightmares at least twice a week (Holzinger 2014). In addition, participant’s nightmares had to fit the institutes definition as ‘recurrent awakening from sleep with recall of intensely disturbing dream mentation’s and were accompanied by dysphonic emotion’ (p. 355). Prior to acceptance to the study, all participants were required to go through a screening process to eliminate any person with additional sleep behavior disorders, excluding anyone experiencing sleepwalking or night terrors and anyone suffering from REM sleep behavior disorder, epileptic seizures, or psychotic symptoms. After passing all screenings, participants were randomly assigned to two groups; group A: Gestalt therapy group (GTG) and group B: Gestalt and lucid dreaming therapy group (LDG) where each group had twenty members.

In (Spoormaker, V.I. et al., 2003), it was their primary goal to investigate the effects of lucid dreaming on nightmares. Therefore, their hypotheses states that lucid dreaming would decrease nightmare frequency along with their other variables, trait/state anxiety, and improve quality of the participants sleep. In this experiment it was found at the 2-month follow up that nightmare frequency had indeed decreased, while quality of sleep had increased only slightly. As for state and trait anxiety, there were no changes. Within this study lucid dreaming seemed to be effective in reducing nightmares however, how effective it was is not clear since it did not change the other variables quite as significantly. Interestingly, the effect of lucid dreaming as a treatment for nightmares was conducted once more three years later by

Dreams are often liberating experiences, fantasies that take people away from the demands of the waking world, especially if they are lucid dreams. Lucid dreams are when someone is in a sense, awake in a dream. The person knows that they are dreaming and can sometimes even manipulate the very fabric of the Dreamscape. Dreams are a very important part of life, humans spend over one third of their lives asleep, but it is all too often that dreams are forgotten or muddled. This study was conducted in order to investigate a possible way to remember dreams more often and to have them be clearer instead of vague and blurry.

Some people have entered sleep paralysis directly from lucid dreaming or entered lucid dreaming from a state of sleep paralysis. The indications are that people who are experiencing both patterns are also undergoing a greater dissociative experience in daily life. In lucid dreaming the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming and is therefore able to control the dream. These dreams are characterized by increased insight, and even access to waking memories. This dissociate experience is generally positive and can leave the dreamer feeling blissful. These are directly inverted from the intruder and incubus hallucinations of ISP (Denis & Poerio,

The official term that is connected to this phenomenon is called ‘lucid dreaming’ which was given to by a Dutch psychiatrist named Federik van Eden in a 1913 article called ‘A Study of Dreams’. However, people were exposed to this concept for

Dreaming is something that is experienced by everyone every single night. There is no living person in this planet that never experienced dreaming, it’s a very common thing that is even talked about during the waking life. It’s a matter of being able to remember it when you wake up or not. Then, there is a method invented to explore the dreaming world called lucid dreaming.

Do you enjoy your dreams? People usually fall into two categories, those who care about and enjoy their dreams and those who believe dreams are useless and insist that they don’t dream. Through many experiments, however, scientists have proven that everyone dreams and people say they don’t dream because they can’t remember their dreams. It has been proven that dreaming is both useful for brain development and releasing stress. Knowing this, wouldn’t you like to dream about whatever you want and remember these dreams? Lucid dreaming entails just that, the ability to gain consciousness within your dreams and mold them into experiences that you can enjoy or that will help you delve deeper into a better understanding of yourself.

Because of that, our view on attaining enlightenment through the lucid dreams diminished in to what little history and documentation could provide. Where the terms dream consciousness and dream logic meet is the description of lucid dreaming and Ryan Hurd, author and creator of Dream Studies provide support of explaining the differences between ordinary dreaming and “lucid dreaming”, that entails “lucid dreaming can be seen as a rediscovery of ancient practices as well as a recovery of our dreaming

In accumulation to psychology and therapy, a lucid dream is any dream during which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. The dreamer may allegedly be able to utilize some grade of control over the narrative, people, and environment within a dream. Many people would describe this type of dream as “a place where anything is possible.” Lucid dreaming can be applied for creativity and problem-solving. Quoted from the article Ten Things You Didn’t Know about Lucid Dreaming, “Only one in five people lucid dream every month or more. In 1988, Snyder & Gackenback conducted a survey which found that 20% of people claimed to lucid dream frequently (every month) while 50% of people had done it at least once in their lives,” (Turner. 2016). Remaining

Specific Purpose: I will inform my audience about what lucid dreaming is and how to accomplish it.

The last time that I had a dream was two days ago. This dream could be considered a nightmare. In the dream I was living a happy life, but there was this woman who seemed to despise me and everything that I was.This lady decided to kill me, but after being killed and pronounced dead, I would wake up again as a different person. This woman would come back into my life and would continue to kill me over and over again. I woke up abruptly and realized it was all in my mind. Many people can not recall their dreams after they have woken up from their deep sleep. Lucid dreaming is defined as being aware that you are dreaming, when you are dreaming and also being able to control certain aspects of your dream. All dreams are very fascinating to me. Dreams show your inner consciousness. They show desire, fears, wants, and many other emotions that can be buried inside of one’s mind. I wanted to venture more into dreams, especially lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is where you can control anything in your dream and how impressive is it when you can make yourself have a super power or do anything that you could possibly think of. Can someone truly know when they are dreaming? This is the question I started to pull apart and attempted to find a definite answer.