Editing Dream (section)

== Lucidity ==
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Lucid dreaming is the conscious perception of one's state while dreaming. In this state the dreamer may often have some degree of control over their own actions within the dream or even the characters and the environment of the dream. Dream control has been reported to improve with practiced deliberate lucid dreaming, but the ability to control aspects of the dream is not necessary for a dream to qualify as "lucid"—a lucid dream is any dream during which the dreamer knows they are dreaming.<ref>[http://www.psychwww.com/asc/ld/faq.html Lucid dreaming FAQ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313100513/http://www.psychwww.com/asc/ld/faq.html |date=13 March 2007}} by The Lucidity Institute at Psych Web.</ref> The occurrence of lucid dreaming has been scientifically verified.<ref name=Watanabe2003>{{cite journal |author=Watanabe, T. |year=2003 |title=Lucid Dreaming: Its Experimental Proof and Psychological Conditions |journal=J Int Soc Life Inf Sci |volume=21 |issue=1 |issn=1341-9226}}</ref>

"[[Oneironautics|Oneironaut]]" is a term sometimes used for those who lucidly dream.

In 1975, psychologist Keith Hearne successfully recorded a communication from a dreamer experiencing a lucid dream. On April 12, 1975, after agreeing to move his eyes left and right upon becoming lucid, the subject and Hearne's co-author on the resulting article, Alan Worsley, successfully carried out this task.<ref name="Lucid dream communication">{{cite web |url=http://www.keithhearne.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/RECHTSCHAFFEN.pdf |title=The University of Chicago Department of Psychiatry |date=5 September 1975 |access-date=21 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426081653/http://www.keithhearne.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/RECHTSCHAFFEN.pdf |archive-date=26 April 2012}}</ref> Years later, psychophysiologist [[Stephen LaBerge]] conducted similar work including:
* Using eye signals to map the subjective sense of time in dreams.
* Comparing the electrical activity of the brain while singing awake and while dreaming.
* Studies comparing in-dream sex, arousal, and orgasm.<ref>{{cite book|doi=10.1037/14258-006 |chapter=Lucid dreaming: Paradoxes of dreaming consciousness |title=Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence |edition=2nd |date=2014 |last1=Laberge |first1=Stephen |pages=145–173 |isbn=978-1-4338-1529-4 |s2cid=152082735 }}
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Communication between two dreamers has also been documented. The processes involved included [[Electroencephalography|EEG]] monitoring, ocular signaling, incorporation of reality in the form of red light stimuli and a coordinating website. The website tracked when both dreamers were dreaming and sent the stimulus to one of the dreamers where it was incorporated into the dream. This dreamer, upon becoming lucid, signaled with eye movements; this was detected by the website whereupon the stimulus was sent to the second dreamer, invoking incorporation into that dreamer's dream.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/11/08/saying-hi-through-a-dream-how-the-internet-could-make-sleeping-more-social/#2eb99101590c |title=Saying 'Hi' Through A Dream: How The Internet Could Make Sleeping More Social |last=Olson |first=Parmy |website=Forbes |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531010710/http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/11/08/saying-hi-through-a-dream-how-the-internet-could-make-sleeping-more-social/#2eb99101590c |archive-date=31 May 2016}}</ref>