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Lucid Dreams are the playground of the mind. Anything can happen when one is . The only limitation is that we only rarely realize the freedoms granted to us in our dreams while we have them. Lucid is the ability to know when one is , and be able to influence wha ....

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.... lucid without noticing any particular clue in the dream; they just suddenly realize that they are in a dream. A minority of lucid dreams (about 10 percent) are the result of returning to REM sleep directly from an awakening with unbroken reflective consciousness (LaBerge, 1985). These types of lucid dreams occur most often during daytime napping. If the napper has been REM deprived from a previous night of little sleep their chances of having a REM period at sleep onset are increased. If the napper is able to continue his or her train of thought up to the point of sleep, a lucid dream may develop due to an immediate REM period. The basic definition o ....