Lucid dreams are when you know you’re dreaming while you’re asleep. Studies suggest that about 50% of all people have had at least one lucid dream. About 20% of lucid dreamers have them monthly. And a ...

Lucid dreaming can be a divisive topic among sleep and dream experts — like author and dream analysis expert Dr. Jean ...

A visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide, Aspy (who recently changed his surname to Adventure-Heart) was set to focus his Ph.D. program on nonverbal communication until he had a lucid ...

Lucid dreaming takes regular dreams to a whole new level. Roughly one in two people have reported experiencing lucid dreaming at least once in their life, but only about 1/10 say they've had two or ...

Dreams can be weird: sex dreams, stress dreams, dreams about your ex who you thought you were totally over. But have you ever had a dream so frustrating, upsetting, or bizarre that you wished you ...

Have you ever had a dream where, suddenly, you thought, “This isn’t real!” and felt fully aware within it? Perhaps you began controlling the dream, soaring over city skylines, revisiting old friends, ...

Annie Miller is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in the Washington DC area. She is the owner and founder of DC Metro Sleep and Psychotherapy. Annie received her BA from the University of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – In a health and wellness culture that reveres sleep, a popular but under-researched topic is lucid dreaming or vivid dreaming. But what exactly do those terms mean? And how might they ...

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When you lucid dream, you’re aware you’re dreaming while sleeping. A person might use lucid dreaming to problem solve or heal emotionally mentally, or physically. Not everyone lucid dreams, though.

When Christopher Mazurek realizes he’s dreaming, it’s always the small stuff that tips him off. The first time it happened, Mazurek was a freshman at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. In the ...

Lucid dreaming, a scientifically recognized phenomenon, involves becoming aware within a dream and potentially controlling it. A 2025 study identified distinct brain activity patterns during lucid ...