Lucid dreaming is when a person has some control over their actions in a dream state. Sometimes when you are lucid dreaming you can wake up. If you like your dream you can often fall back asleep and continue your dream. Some people may enjoy the dreams that they are having so they may want to continue the dream. On the other hand some people may not like their dreams and will decide to wake up and not continue to sleep so they can stop dreaming. Most people enjoy lucid dreaming because they are aware that they are dreaming and dreams offer a no consequence environment to experience.
Researchers wanted to investigate if there is a correlation between lucid dreaming and pressing snooze on alarm clocks. In my article called “Lucid …show more content…
Researcher’s asked participants if they have ever lucid dreamed and asked them how many times they did. When participants would sleep they were given a journal where they would write about their dreams to see if they were really lucid dreaming. Researchers found a correlation between people lucid dreaming and waking up. The study showed that people wake up when they are dreaming and when they go back to sleep they are lucid dreaming. Some people sleep in because they are in control of their dreams and do not want them to end. Participants also used alarm clocks and most said they press the snooze button to continue to lucidly …show more content…
The text does not go into details about how people feel about lucid dreaming or their reactions to it. Unfortnautely, there was not a lot of imformation about lucid dreaming in the textbook. The main thing that the textbook had about lucid dreaming was the definition and an explanation about what it is. The article extended on a lot of information because I was able to understand that people lucid dream in the morning because they are experiencing lucid dreaming. The article also gave me more insight because most particpants choose to sleep in order to continue to lucid dream .
Are there any questions that are still left unanswered
The article and book do not discuss how people feel about lucid dreaming and nightmares or negative lucid dreams. In my next paper I would want to investigate on the impact of negative lucid dreaming. Because people do experience both of them and it’s a subject that I have not found much information on. It seems important to understand things from a positive and negative stand point and learning how to control negative dreams could improve sleep for people who experience nightmares.
What further research would you do if you were the author of the article? What other questions would you like answers