Recalling dreams is key for inducing lucid dreams. Skill in reliable dream recall demonstrates an improved state of consciousness in the dream state, closing in on the state of lucidity (since without any dream awareness, we would not be able to recall dreams that easily). More importantly, recalled (and journaled) dreams can be used to [...]

Dreams are awesome Apparently, many people show interest in dreams. Maybe because we are all familiar with them, especially the ones that were so special that they really made a deep impression on us. I recall childhood dreams that were in some ways extensions of my waking life desires, providing me joyful opportunities of … [...]

Lucid dream In a lucid dream the dreamer attains clear and explicit knowledge that he or she is in fact dreaming while dreaming. Though the term was coined by a Dutch psychiatrist named Frederick van Eeden (1913), “lucid dreaming” as a phenomenon was already known since the time of Aristotle (400 B.C.) and even much earlier [...]