Control dreams consciously: Sleep researcher explains how you can learn to lucid dream thanks to the "reality check".
Created: 03/14/2022, 2:30 p.m
How about a boat tour above the clouds?
Anything is possible during a dream.
Some can even control their dreams.
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Would you like to determine what you dream at night?
Lucid dreamers can do that. You can train this ability with a special technique.
Flying through urban canyons like Spiderman or beaming from holiday island to holiday island: there are things that are only possible in dreams.
But (almost) nobody can choose dream topics.
Often you wake up in the morning and think: "How do I get such ideas".
In the worst case, it can even lead to nightmares* that leave you completely confused.
But they do exist: people who can control what happens in their dreams.
In this case one speaks of lucid dreaming or lucid dreaming.
In this state one is aware that one is dreaming and can even control the action.
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A study showed that around half of the 919 participants had had a lucid dream at least once in their lives.
But very few have such dreams regularly: As reported by Südwestrundfunk, only around five percent of Germans manage to consciously control their dreams.
Would you also like to master this?
There are even (online) courses on the subject.
Some of the courses are advertised with big promises, as the editorial network Germany (RND) informs.
Everything is possible in a lucid dream: "Flying, hot sex with stars, trips to foreign planets," it says in one offer.
But can you really learn
lucid dreaming
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With a reality check to a lucid dream
In principle, it would be quite possible to teach yourself how to lucid dream, says Michael Schredl, sleep and dream researcher and head of the sleep laboratory at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mainz.
As the RND further quotes him, there are scientifically proven techniques that increase the likelihood of experiencing a lucid dream.
If a course is based on a technique developed by sleep researchers, that is a sign of quality.
However, with regard to courses on lucid dreaming, there is “no standard for quality assurance”.
The recognized methods include, for example, the so-called reality check.
You keep asking yourself when you are awake, whether you are awake or dreaming.
Simple tests should be carried out, such as covering the nose and mouth.
If you can still breathe, you are dreaming.
This exercise, which is carried out regularly, is intended to help train the brain so that it can also distinguish between dreams and reality while you are sleeping*.
Because being aware in the dream that you are dreaming is the prerequisite for controlling the dream, as the RND informs.
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