Lucid dreams sound like the best superpower in the world, combining our conscious control

with the magical world of dreams, allowing us to imagine anything in the universe and

then experience it for real, using that full sensory experience of dreams.

All too often such promises are false, but it turns out that some people can actually

have this level of control over their dreams, and we've been able to prove it.

Can you learn to develop that same power?

The truth behind Lucid dreaming is coming up today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Lucid Dreaming

Today we're going to descend into the twilight world of dreams where anything can happen

and no rules need be followed.

We all dream, some of us more often than others, and some of us more vividly than others.

We watch them play out like little movies happening to us.

But for a select few people, these are not merely view-only movies.

They can become fully interactive virtual worlds in which we can do anything we can imagine.

For today's subject is that fringe of the dream phenomenon called Lucid Dreaming, a

reality to some, and nonsense to others.

They call themselves O'Neillronauts, the people who live out their fantasies in virtual

worlds of their own making.

A Lucid Dream is one in which you become consciously aware that you are dreaming and are then able

to make conscious choices and direct the actions of the dream according to your desires.

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