Lucid Dreamer

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Lucid dreaming is your chance to play around with the extraordinary abilities buried in unused parts of your brain. Regardless of whether your are superhuman in real life or not, lucid dreaming is a way for you to put the deepest areas of your brain to good use while you’re sleeping. You can be a Jane Doe while awake and superman while sleeping. All the obstacles of reality can be set aside, as you make trips to the sun or the interior of the earth or test your craziest science experiments on your worst enemies.

Lucid dream researcher Beverly D'Urso knows everything about lucid dreaming: She has been a lucid dreamer since she was seven years old. She has worked with psychophysiologist Stephen Laberge, the founder of the Lucidity Institute. She was the first person to have a recorded orgasm during a dream. During her lucid dreams, she has tasted fire, visited the sun and overcome a writer's block. She has done it all. We recently conducted an interview with the lucid dream expert.

What does "lucid dreaming" mean?

Even though the term "lucid" means clear, lucid dreaming is more than just having a clear dream. To have a lucid dream you must know that it’s a dream while you’re dreaming. That's it. It doesn't require that you can control anything in your dream, though control is what beginning lucid dreamers often aim at. People get attracted to lucid dreaming because they want to be able to do things they could never do in waking reality, for example, taste fire or fly to the sun. More and more experienced lucid dreamers are realizing the benefits of lucid dreaming. You can use it to explore the boundaries of your own agency and the limits of the universe.

This piece is short but lovely!

Hello! Before I begin, I want to say that I really enjoyed this poem. The choppy, fragmented way you wrote it really gave me the imagery of a dream. Well done!

One thing that I noticed was that your first two lines don't fit in with the rest of the poem. First of all, it doesn't rhyme with the rest of the poem, which threw me off when I was reading it. Second of all, it's kind of on a different level than the rest of the poem. The rest of the poem is describing the dream, and waking up in paralysis. The first two lines are describing the love for dreams and the relative ok-ness(umm that's a word now) of movies compared to them. It just didn't really fit in with the rest. I would suggest rephrasing it, or just cutting it entirely.

Another thing I noticed was that your punctuation wasn't consistent throughout the poem. If you're going to use commas and periods, it should be consistent for all your lines.

Other than that, I really enjoyed this poem! I'm looking forward to reading more of your work. Keep writing!

ella

Thank you for sharing this poem about a lucid dream just experienced. The poem does accurately describe the irrational barrage of images that can assail us during sleep. Waking up in a paralyzed state doesn't help. So the value of the poem is in making the reader feel that his own irrational dreams are shared by others and that is a comforting thought.

Adding more details would have been nice such as the identity and relationship of the person spoken abvout to the reader. Details about how the person looked and her means of flight would have also enhanced as would a hint on why the speaker weeps at the end.

Fear? Frustration? Grief? Anger?