lucid dreaming
Conscious sleep control
Lucid dreaming is the experience of becoming aware that you're dreaming while still asleep.
This awareness can allow the dreamer to exert some control over the dream's content—flying, changing scenery, or summoning people at will: I've been practicing lucid dreaming techniques.
The state occupies a middle ground between sleep and waking consciousness.
Intensely clear and bright
- dreamscapeImagined realm during sleep
- surrealDreamlike and strange
- hallucinatorySeeming falsely perceived
- lifelikeResembling the real thing
vibrant colors · detailed · immersive · sensory · impossible geometry · texture · soundscape · otherworldly
Formal admission process
- techniquesSkilled ways of doing
- reality checksTests against actual facts
- dream recallRemembering what you slept through
- sleep cyclesStages of nightly rest
REM sleep · supplements · binaural beats · meditation · visualization · napping · sleep mask · mugwort
State of sentient awareness
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- clarityState of being understandable
- realizationGrasping what's true
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
recognition · presence · mindfulness · alertness · insight · reality testing · critical thinking · meta-cognition
Not awake or aware
- psycheTotal mental life
- inner selfPrivate essential identity
- archetypesUniversal symbolic patterns
- shadow selfUnconscious rejected aspects
symbolism · dream interpretation · repressed memories · Jungian · Freudian · dream symbols · inner wisdom · emotional processing
Underhanded control of others
- flyingMoving through air
- shapeshiftingTransforming into other beings
- teleportationInstantaneous displacement across space
- summoningCalling forth deliberately
scene change · stabilization · hand rubbing · commanding · wish fulfillment · manifestation · navigation · interaction
vivid
Intensely clear and bright
- dreamscapeImagined realm during sleep
- surrealDreamlike and strange
- hallucinatorySeeming falsely perceived
lifelike · vibrant colors · detailed · immersive · sensory · impossible geometry · texture · soundscape · otherworldly
induction
Formal admission process
- techniquesSkilled ways of doing
- reality checksTests against actual facts
- dream recallRemembering what you slept through
sleep cycles · REM sleep · supplements · binaural beats · meditation · visualization · napping · sleep mask · mugwort
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- clarityState of being understandable
- realizationGrasping what's true
awakening · recognition · presence · mindfulness · alertness · insight · reality testing · critical thinking · meta-cognition · dream journal
unconscious
Not awake or aware
- psycheTotal mental life
- inner selfPrivate essential identity
- archetypesUniversal symbolic patterns
shadow self · symbolism · dream interpretation · repressed memories · Jungian · Freudian · dream symbols · inner wisdom · emotional processing · shadow work
manipulation
Underhanded control of others
- flyingMoving through air
- shapeshiftingTransforming into other beings
- teleportationInstantaneous displacement across space
summoning · scene change · stabilization · hand rubbing · commanding · wish fulfillment · manifestation · navigation · interaction · prolonging
- dream phenomenadream logic, time distortion, metamorphosis, shapeshifting, false awakening
- sleepsleep, sleeping, nap, doze, slumber
- dreamsnightmare, daydream, nightmares, dreams, daydreams
- meditationbreathing meditation, breath, breath meditation, mantra, breathing
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, altered perception, consciousness expansion
- lucid dreamingreality check, reality checks, dream journal, dream recall, dream diary
lucid dreamingnightmare
Frightening dream causing wakefulness
night terror · sleep paralysis · anxiety dream · recurring dream · fever dream
lucid dreamingdreamless sleep
Unconsciousness without mental imagery
deep sleep · unconsciousness · blackout · coma · oblivion
dreamy, dreaming, dreamer, lucid, dreamland, dreamlike, lucidity, dreamers, dreamt