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What Are Lucid Dreams?

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Everyone has dreams, but most just believe it’s a part of sleep." Dreams are a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep." (howthingswork.com). You only dream during the stage of REM sleep. Your brain is more active during REM sleep. you can dream at least six times in the night.

Most people think of dreams as good or bad, but there is more to it than that. Our dreams are just images and stories that we create while we are dreaming. You can have vivid dreams these can feel real like your not asleep at all. Sometimes you may not even know why you have a certain dream it could not pertain anything that's happening in your life . there are …show more content…

You spend an average of 70-120 minutes a day, daydreaming or fantasizing from a perspective that transcends normal perception. Lucid Dreams. Lucid dreams occur when you 'wake up' while dreaming. .Nightmares, Recurring Dreams. Dreams About Healing. Prophetic Dreams. Life Changing Dreams"(cafeausoul.com).

There are thirteen main dreams : being chased, water, vehicles, people, school, paralysis, death, flying, falling, nudity, babies. When you dream of being chased this indicates that you are running from something in your life. You are not really being chased by anyone you running away from a problem that you should face. Next you have water, this indicates our emotions and our unconscious mind . How well we are dealing with a situation or how we are dealing with a certain emotion weather its good or bad. Vehicles indicate getting to a certain point in your life , or maybe

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