Psychology in Seattle.

Hey deserving listeners, it's at the end of my quarter, meaning the end of my term at the university and I have a couple weeks where I get a little bit of

extra time and I thought I would spend that time answering your emailed questions.

So let's get into it.

This is the Psychology and Seattle Podcast. I'm your host Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor.

This first email is from Patron Juni. Patron Juni writes that wants me to talk about dreams and lucid dreaming.

She says, I can't remember a night when I haven't dreamt.

And my whole life, I've generally had multiple dreams a night.

With so many dreams being part of my life,

I've learned to occasionally control my dreams

to an extent and can sort of enter my dreams and have this part of me that is conscious during them if that makes sense.

I'm interested in general dream theory and research.

Why do we have dreams?

What about dream meanings, recurring dreams,

and common dream themes?

Well, good question, patron Juni.

So just a little bit on lucid dreaming,

I feel like most people know what that is as you do it's the ability to you know

know that you're dreaming while you're dreaming and there's techniques in

terms of training yourself some people just naturally do this, but some people can actually train themselves to learn their dreaming.

Like one of the things, there's various different techniques but one of the techniques you can do is to walk up all

in your waking life, walk up to a wall and try to put your hand through the wall.

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