lucid dream

[loo-sid dreem]

noun

1. a dream in which a person is aware that they are dreaming and can often control action in the dream.

   I had a nightmare that I was lost at sea, but I was able to turn it into a lucid dream and I made myself find a radio to call for help.

verb (used without object)

1. to have a dream in which the person is aware that they are dreaming and can often control action in the dream.

   She says she lucid dreams every few months and is training herself to do so more often.

Other Word Forms

• lucid dreaming noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of lucid dream¹

First recorded in 1913; coined by Dutch psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden (1860–1932)

Example Sentences

Only 40 minutes into the competition and now it is beginning to feel like a lucid dream.

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According to Scott, what Crolla experienced therefore, was more a lucid dream, conjured after the event, than a real memory,

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Sense memories of childhood isolation take over like a lucid dream.

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Everyone suddenly, it seems, wants to lucid dream.

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But the idea that you can prompt a lucid dream with ultrasound transducers—their brain stimulation technology of choice—is still purely hypothetical, Wollberg acknowledged.

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