Way To Control Your Dreams Has Been Verified For The First Time!

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For a long time this has been considered a myth, but now science has confirmed lucid dreams exist, and found some methods work to increase the prospects people will have them. Matter of fact I used to experience this when I was a primary school kid, it kinda faded away as I grew older.

lucid dreaming is a rare experience by which the dreamer is aware of dreaming, the dreamer may be able to exert some degree of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment

For the very first time, a technique to prompt lucid dreaming has been independently verified, More than half the participants lucidly dreamed during the trial, a ground breaking success rate in just a week without using external intervention.

Well, some of techniques require sophisticated equipment. This is unfortunate both because people enjoy the dreams so much, and they are also considered a potential tool for healing traumas and controlling unhealthy behavior. 

Dr Denholm Aspy of the University of Adelaide instructed 169 people in techniques developed to prompt lucid dreaming. One of them was reality testing which involves regularly checking to make sure they really are awake. Mnemonic induction of lucid dreams (MILD) has participants set alarms to wake them in five hours and recite “The next time I am dreaming, I will remember that I'm dreaming” before going back to sleep. 

As published in the journal Dreaming, Dr. Aspy reports reality testing on its own produced no benefit, but of those who tried the combination of both reality testing and MILD, 53% had a lucid dream during the trial period, with 17 percent successful each night. He told IFLScience this exceeds any previous study conducted without interventions such as masks that shine lights in people’s eyes on detecting REM sleep.

IFLscience reported, due to lack of benefit from reality testing alone, Dr. Aspy acknowledged the lucid dreams may be entirely attributable to MILD. He noted, however, his success rate exceeds that of previous studies of MILD, even those conducted by the inventor himself.

About 55% of people have a lucid dream at some point during their lifetime, though its very rare. Aspy changed his psychology PhD from studying non-verbal communication after having a lucid dream the night before he was to begin his doctorate.