Lucid Dreaming

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Abstract

People come across various kinds of dreams throughout their lives. Lucid dreaming, however, is somewhat uncommon notion. The aim of this paper is to research about the pervasiveness of the occurrence of lucid dreams in people's lives. The paper entails literature review which details the concepts and notions of lucid dreaming put forward by different researchers and psychologists. The paper attempts to propose a general idea about the pervasiveness of the lucid dreams by focusing on the people who neither have an association with the study of psychology nor have a special interest in such concepts. The paper put forwards a general idea regarding the prevalence of lucid dreaming by conducting a survey with a diverse group of people. In the end, the paper provides recommendation for the further research in this aspect.

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Introduction1

Research question2

Research methodology2

Literature Review3

History of lucid dreaming3

The process of lucid dreaming4

A survey of students belonging to non-psychological background-Findings7

Conclusion10

Recommendation for further research10

Works Cited11

Lucid Dreaming

Introduction

Weird, wonderful, and even impractical things occur in dreams on a regular basis; however, individuals usually do not recognize that the clarification is that they are dreaming. Usually does not mean at all times and there is an exceedingly important exemption to this generalization. At times, dreamers do properly comprehend the clarification for the strange occurrences they are going through, and lucid dreams are the end results. Sanctioned by the information that the world they are going through is a formation of their own mind, lucid dreamers can deliberately manipulate the result of their dreams. They can generate and change things, people, circumstances, world and even their own selves. By the standards of the known world of material and societal veracity, they can carry out the impractical. The world of lucid dreams offers a platform greater than usual life for just about everything that one can imagine, from the frolicsome to the inspirational (LaBerge & Rheingold, pp.06).

The expression “lucid dreaming” is used to describe a dream of which one is conscious of whilst dreaming. From studies completed in the past, the pervasiveness, which denotes the number of the happenings, illustrates that lucid dreaming is a widespread observable fact (Schredl & Erlacher, p.1470). Nevertheless, the samples of those studies were by and large students who registered in psychology courses (Schredl & Erlacher, p.1470) or grown-ups who has strangely high curiosity in dreaming or lucid dreaming (Gackenbach, pp.81).

It is probable that it was more opportune for those psychologists to make their own students or individuals who are interested in this uncommon matter to be included in their studies. Conversely this paper aims to identify that what will the outcomes be if the study is more focused on the contributors who are not related to the field of psychology? Is lucid dreaming pervasiveness also high within students and individuals not related to psychology?

The paper aims to support the argument that lucid dreaming is neither exceedingly rare nor extremely widespread occurrence. Most of the researches done previously focused on only people with a psychology ...