Lucid Dreaming: Understanding and Exploring Awareness in Dreams, Guías, Proyectos, Investigaciones de Filosofía

¡Descarga Lucid Dreaming: Understanding and Exploring Awareness in Dreams y más Guías, Proyectos, Investigaciones en PDF de Filosofía solo en Docsity! 3/16/17 Research Paper Lucid Dreaming Everyone dreams; from the 6 month year old baby to the 87 year old person. Some dreams are realistic or maybe even a little scary, but you don’t really remember them too well. A lot of younger children dream about the ‘boogie man’ but they can’t remember the full experience. They will always seem blurry, or you don’t remember the full plot to them. That’s normal, but there is a certain type of dreaming called lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is where you are aware that you’re in a dream and you have total control about what is going to occur in your dream. That’s not all; compared to other dreams lucid dreaming uses all of your senses. In an easier way to look at it is that when you go to sleep the conscious part of your brain ‘turns off’, but once you're in a lucid dream the conscious part ‘turns on’ so that when you wake up the whole dream is clear and memorable. Lucid dreaming could be useful for many things, it all depends on the person and their interests. A baby for example; they don’t know the world that they are in so they might dream about a fictional character or an imaginary friend. As you grow older you most likely won't dream of your imaginary friend from kindergarten, you will dream of something that you really want to try or something you want to improve in. Some people use lucid dreaming for: problem solving, an increase in a person’s creativity, facing your fears, improving your self confidence, practicing a new skill, developing your sense of self, and exploring your unconscious mind. People might not use lucid dreaming as something serious, but also as a way to escape reality. To clarify, people might want to grow wings and fly or even breath underwater and they can; they can escape from reality for a short amount of time. Lucid dreaming has been around for centuries, it just took a certain person to research about it. In 1913 Frederick van Eeden, a Dutch scientist, researched more about lucid dreaming and what it was. Before 1913 there was already cases about lucid dreaming but no one really knew what it was called. Some people who experienced lucid dreaming was Marquis d’Hervey de Saint-Denys in 1867; he remembered having his first lucid dream at age 13 and into his early 20’s. Another person who remembers their dream was Saint Augustine in 415 AD. The earliest knowledge of lucid dreaming was with the Tibetan Buddhist. The Tibetan Buddhists used lucid dreaming as a way for themselves to become closer with their gods. Lucid dreaming comes to everyone, and it’s not a really rare skill either. The only difference for lucid dreaming dreaming is your age. What I mean by this is the younger you are, the higher the chance you have to lucid dream. Due to this, when you’re younger you go into a longer stage of sleeping called the REM cycle. The REM cycle stands for Rapid Eye Movement and occurs for about 90 minutes after you fall asleep and your eyes are moving constantly in that time. Babies can spend up to 50% of their sleep in the REM cycle; giving them a higher chance of lucid dreaming. As you grow older the percentage decreases and once you’re an adult you spend about 20% of your sleep in the REM cycle. Teenagers aren’t as young as babies or old enough to be considered an adult yet, so they have a higher chance to lucid dream than an adult