I thought it may be nice to present myself to get some background information, before you start reading my blogs.



I am Renée (22, female) and recently moved to Enschede (the Netherlands) to study Psychology. I like to study, to eat icecream and raspberries, especially with a cat on my lap or while sitting on the grass watching the cows grazing. However, since I live in the Netherlands and it is usually not warm enough to do such a thing, I now bake raspberrypies with aniseed and drink chocolate milk, wrapped in three blankets and with five ties around my neck.
I also enjoy to make drama out of nothing, and I get intensely upset when I can´t open a can of kidneybeans.
Sometimes I write columns for my website (Fadou) about these things that upset me and make photographs, edit them, combine text with image or drawings with pictures, though I can´t really draw.

As a child of about ten, I used to lucid dream. I could do everything voluntarily: shifting scenes, summoning people and places, shifting whole dreams, waking myself up, etcetera. I lost the ability but am trying to retrieve it since I found out about Lucidipedia.

I found out about it through the website of the University of Twente. On the Psychology website Lucidipedia was mentioned and it made me curious. Soon after, I met up with Tim, founder of Lucidipedia and I decided to study in Enschede. Now we meet up regularly and we are planning to make a section on the website about the neurobiology of dreaming: what happens in the brain during sleep, dreams and especially while lucid dreaming?

Apart from that, I now started to write blogs for Lucidipedia. I am planning to update at least once a month. The first blog will be about lucid ethics. It will deal with questions like ¨Can we do anything in dreams, including having sex with four year olds, or kill our parents, just because we want to?¨ When possible, I will try to explain how things happen in the brain and how that explains certain characteristics of dreaming such as impulsiveness.

Later on I will write on how to optimize the sleep environment for a good nights rest, about ideas on what to do in a lucid dream, techniques, related subjects like dream interpretation, dialogues in dreams and so forth. I hope you will read and enjoy it and even more I hope you will respond and tell about your experiences and ideas related to the subject.