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    Turn Sleep Paralysis and False Awakenings into Lucid a Dream Do you get sleep paralysis and false awakenings frequently? If yes then by reading this post you will learn some working methods that can turn both of these troublesome experiences into a lucid dream. Usually, people are afraid of sleep paralysis but for me it is false awakening loop that makes life difficult because I have had them for months and sometimes consistently for more than a week. Sleep paralysis on the other hand is something

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    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

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    In 1911 the term, “Lucid Dreaming” was first used by a Dutch psychiatrist named Frederick Van Eden. He described it as a person sleeping but taking on an active role. Lucid dreaming is actually defined as a dream where the person dreaming is aware they’re dreaming and have somewhat control over the characters and narrators and their role in the dream. Over the course of this document the basics of lucid dreaming and the knowledge we have of it will be covered, as well as the senses it effects and

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    Benefits Of Lucid Dreaming

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    All You Need to 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

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    Are individuals actually experiencing the external world, or could it be that they are in a deep state of permanent sleep. Are you—the reader, as you read these words positive that you are wide awake? Or is this merely an illusion, a dream? How can one determine whether he is undeniably not dreaming? This Philosophical question was presented in Descartes’ first meditation where he introduced dreams that get individuals to confuse both dreaming and waking state. Descartes explains in his text; “I

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    Am I Dreaming? I. I awoke from a dream. A dream so realistic that I had no idea if it was real or fake. I had to grasp reality, as my alarm clock buzzed with anger as if it was mad as well, for it wanted to know the answer too. My mind was so mixed up and the screaming voice of my sister yelling at me to get ready for school was not helping. I had to make a choice. A choice of life or death. A choice of , was it true or not, did my best friend get dumped by her boyfriend of two years and I

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    The power of dreams

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    The powers of dreams have always been underestimated. There is a whole new world in the sub conscious mind that helps us in a subtle way. In this project you will see how a baby was born because of a dream, how nightmares can be partially good for you, be given a background on dreams in general and details on interpreting your own dreams amongst other things. Background Everybody dreams but not everybody can remember them. We usually don't remember dreams when we suddenly wake up and move about

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    So, in general dreams are a universal human experience that can be described as a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep. The dreamer has reduced control over the content, visual images and activation of the memory. Dreams are full of experiences that have lifelike connections but with vivid and bizarre twists. Whereas Nightmares are distressing dreams that cause the dreamer to feel a number of disturbing emotions. Common feelings include

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    Lucid Dreaming Paper

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    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

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    Dreams : A Lucid Dream

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    Being able to understand what dreams represent and how they effect a person should be something everyone should understand. Dreams can be a small glimpse or feel so real that it is unbelievable. The issue people have the most is remembering. They can not remember if they spoke with another individual in actually life or if it was all apart of their dream they had. There is so much confusion that the person is almost embarrassed to ask if the event actually happened. A dream like this is considered

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