Melissa Marulanda Marulanda 1

Language Arts 11

24 January 2018

Lucid Dreaming
What is lucid dreaming, and how does it work? I chose this topic, because I want to

learn how to lucid dream in my sleep. I think this topic is so interesting, and I have

wanted to know more about Lucid Dreaming for a long time. I want to know what people

do while they lucid dream. Are their benefits to lucid dreaming.

Before I did more research, I knew that Lucid Dreaming is being aware that you are

in a dream. I knew that you could control what happens in the dream you are having. I

also knew that whatever happens in the dream feels as if it were reality. For example,

you could be having a nightmare, and you feel the fear as if it were real, as if it were not

a dream. I also knew that to help you lucid dream, you do reality checks during the day.

For example, you look around think of the things that are real like “that is my phone in

the table, and the table is on the ground, my feet are on the ground,” things like that.

My research went really well, I found things that I already knew, but on the other

hand I found things that I did not know in the past. I learned the techniques people use

in order to lucid dream. In my opinion, my search was very successful, and now I know

what I need to do in order to lucid dream. I think the best part of my search was
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watching videos to help me understand lucid dreaming more. I liked watching videos of

people's personal experiences with lucid dreaming. The worst part of my search for me

was finding the same information in a lot of places.

In my search for information I found a lot of general facts about lucid dreaming, like

what it is in a nutshell. Lucid dreaming is when you are dreaming, but you are aware

and conscious in the dream you are in (World of Lucid Dreaming.) When you are in the

dreaming state everything you see, hear, touch and smell all feel as if you were really

experiencing them. There are benefits that come with lucid dreaming such as it has the

potential to help you overcome psychological problems like phobias, anxiety, night

terrors, traumas you have experienced, and also recurring dreams (World of Lucid

Dreaming.) I also learned that everyone is capable and have the potential to lucid

dream. In the video I watched, I learned that keeping a dream journal helps you dream,

so you write memorable important details. For example, write where you were, what you

were doing, what you said. This helps because if you have recurring dreams, you could

remember that you have done that thing before, and realise whether you are dreaming

or not (How to Control Your Dreams.) I did not know that there were disadvantages that

go along with lucid dreaming: One is confusing reality with your dreaming state. In your

dream you are party conscious, so it feels as if it were happening to you in real time, so

when you are not dreaming it is hard to differentiate them both. Another effect of Lucid

Dreaming is Somniphobia, which is a fear of going to sleep so you do not have

nightmares as an example (7 Nasty Side Effects of Lucid Dreaming.) While doing my

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research I came about this supplement called Dream Leaf, and it is two pills, one that

you take before you sleep and one you take after you wake during the night that

induces lucid dreaming. From the website that it is sold on it states that it will induce

Lucid Dreaming, and the video that i watched showed that people only started to vividly

remember their dreams (Dream Leaf.)

In conclusion, my experience went very well. I learned a new way to lucid dream, I

now know some benefits that come from lucid dreaming. I learned more ways to train

yourself to lucid dream. I thought this assignment was really good, and it made it so

easy for me to do it because it was on something that really interested me. It was

something that I have wanted to know more about, and now I do. Doing this assignment

gave me so much more information on how to be conscious while dreaming. It also

shed light on some of consequences that come with Lucid Dreaming.

References
World of Lucid Dreaming
http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/

Lucid Dreaming Physiologically Verified

http://www.lucidity.com/SleepAndCognition.html

How to Control Your Dreams

https://youtu.be/P7EeZw2F4hA

A Beginners Guide to Lucid Dreaming

https://youtu.be/grf4PJ4-QUI

7 Nasty Side Effects of Lucid Dreaming

http://howtolucid.com/side-effects-of-lucid-dreaming/

Dream Leaf
https://luciddreamleaf.com/products/dream-leaf-lucid-dreaming-supplement
https://youtu.be/L7FjeCA6rNQ