Dreams In A Lucid Dream, By Frederik Van Eeden

There exists a unique nocturnal state that only a few people have experienced, and is not universal to all people, respecitvely. Furthermore, this state could be described as a dream in which the dreamer is fully aware and conscious of the newfound situation. In other words,a person has complete comprehension in the moment of dreaming, that one is, in fact, dreaming. This phenomena was first labeled „lucid dreaming“ in 1913, by Frederik Van Eeden, a Dutch psyhchatrist, because of the presence of lucid, luminous thought during the sensation

Lucid dreams especially, and dreams in general, have always been an ambiguous and obscure part of human nature, and albeit the fact that all of us have experienced their sensation, not much was known about

In a lucid dream, we are actually able to remember the dream more throughly, control both our actions, and environment around us, to a varying extent. People have reported rather unusal experiences in which they were both able to twist reality, create content out of nothing and possess abilities usually impossible in our reality. Van Eeden also confirms that „subjects have certainly reported, for instance, an ability to pull a finger off and replace it, or to walk through a wall“, all of which sound extraordinary and remarkable. Van Eeden furthermore reflects on his own experiences in the state of lucid

And the lucid-dream itself is often initiated and accompanied all the time by the sensation of flying. Sometimes I feel myself floating swiftly through wide spaces; once I flew back-wards, and once, dreaming that I was inside a cathedral, I flew upwards, with the immense building and all in it, at great speed.'

In his research,Van Eeden discusses the psychological state of a person during a lucid dream. He comments that a person has no difficulties retaining their indentity, but they can, however, expericence rather uncoprehandable encounters with their „inner self“, and different parts of a person subconsious, in a form of hallucinated person. Weird as it may sound, people have also reported vividly talking to unkown personas, as well as dead people who seemed more real and alive than ever before:

'Then I saw my brother sitting - the same who died in 1906 - and I went up to him saying: "Now we are dreaming, both of us." He answered: "No, I am not!"

And then I remembered that he was dead'

-(Van Eeden)

Because of the beforehand mention properties, some could assume that lucid dreaming as an occurance isnt, in fact, real. They would argue that lucid dream isn't actually a dream, but rather a brief moment of wakefulness. Science has, however, proved otherwise and created a stable benchmark for future lucid dreaming related