Have you ever sprouted wings or swam with unicorn dolphins?

While lucid dreamers can conjure these and other fantastical scenarios.

Is this ancient art of lucid dreaming a real brain phenomenon?

Welcome back to Savi Psychologist.

I'm your host Dr. Jade Wu.

Every week I'll help you meet life's challenges with evidence-based research, a sympathetic

ear and zero judgment.

Today we take a look at what neuroscientists have to say about lucid dreaming, whether

it's a real thing and whether it's a good idea to try it at home.

So recently I took a trip flying through the clouds on my own wings and then I dove into

the ocean and swam with some unicorn dolphins.

They were not narwhals, they were unicorn dolphins.

And then at some other point I was doing some results in zero gravity.

It was the most awesome vacation ever.

So now maybe this did not happen in real life, but I have been lucky enough to have some

amazing dreams that felt so real I could have been in the movie Inception.

Now how cool would it be if you could create these dreams yourself?

Just conjure them up on command or at least realize your dreaming in the middle of a dream

so you can do whatever you please.

Well it turns out some people can.

They practice lucid dreaming, where the dreamer becomes aware that they're dreaming and

may even gain control over the dream content itself.

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