How Lucid Dreaming Works | Learn to Control Your Dreams
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Discover the captivating realm of lucid dreaming—a state where you not only exist within your dreams but also control them. Recent research in the 2023 issue of Encephale unveils its therapeutic potential, including relief from nightmares and the alleviation of insomnia and anxiety. Beyond this, lucid dreaming provides a pathway to explore the inner workings of your mind. Psychologist Antonio Zadra notes that it enables engagement with different facets of your psyche, offering profound self-understanding.
However, lucid dreaming is not limited to introspection. Cognitive neuroscientist Benjamin Baird likens it to having your personal virtual reality, a space for extraordinary adventures impossible in the waking world.
Historically, lucid dreaming has roots dating back centuries, with the term coined by Dutch psychiatrist Frederik Van Eeden in 1913. Research in the 1970s and 1980s, led by Stanford's Stephen LaBerge, pinpointed the occurrence of lucid dreaming during REM sleep.