{"id":35557,"date":"2023-05-08T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T10:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/?p=34563"},"modified":"2024-01-04T19:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T13:51:20","slug":"the-science-of-lucid-dreaming-what-happens-in-your-brain-when-you-dream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/the-science-of-lucid-dreaming-what-happens-in-your-brain-when-you-dream-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Lucid Dreaming: What Happens in Your Brain When You Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A few years ago when I was reading \u201cThe Interpretation of Dreams\u201d by Sigmund Freud, I came across a stimulating claim – \u201cThe interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.\u201d Since dreaming<\/a> is a fairly common mental activity, it corroborates Freud\u2019s theory of psychoanalysis through a persons\u2019 dreams. Although most people dream and that has been widely studied, there are finer nuances to the science of lucid dreaming that not all people have experienced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucid dreaming is one such subject that has had scientists and research intrigued for decades. Lucid dreaming is the experience of achieving conscious awareness of dreaming while still asleep. Lucidity, by definition means intelligibility or comprehensibility, implying that in this state, a person can fully comprehend the fact that it is a dream and that they are asleep. They also can understand and control the dream i.e. change the narrative of the dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This phenomenon, although not completely researched, is not recent. Claims are that the concept dates back to the Paleolithic era, roughly 2.5 million years ago. Western literature has evidence of Aristotle or probably first mentioning it in the fourth century BCE in the treatise On Dreams<\/em> in Parva Naturalia<\/a>. Here, he states: \u201coften when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Similarly, in Eastern cultures, there are reports of individuals engaging in practices to cultivate awareness of dream and sleep states since the 20th century. These practices include meditative techniques<\/a> specifically designed to \u201capprehend the dream state\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat is Lucid Dreaming?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Some of the Significant Lucid Dream Studies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n