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The study included 20 participants who had prior experience with lucid dreaming, meaning they sometimes realized they were dreaming while still asleep.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2026

She starts lucid dreaming and sleepwalking, receiving phone calls from beyond — like from their dead mother when she was a teenager beyond.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

Some conflate reality shifting with lucid dreaming, the scientifically accepted phenomenon in which a person becomes consciously aware during a dream.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2021

As to how you can control your dreams, you might want to look into lucid dreaming.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2021

On the one hand, as Alice Robb argues in her new book, “Why We Dream,” you can train yourself into lucid dreaming, exerting directorial control over the night brain’s filmic productions.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2019