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April 4, 2014

Strange But True!

Q. When might you jump off the roof of a tall building and hit the ground below but live to tell all about it?

A. This dramatic question occurred to French nobleman Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys in the late 19th century, and his answer to himself was to do the jumping in a lucid dream, says David Robson in New Scientist magazine. In a lucid dream, you become aware you're dreaming even as the dream unfolds, with the possibility of taking charge and actually directing its actions to some degree. As Saint-Denys studied dreams, he realized that pre-sleep focusings on potential topics could help determine which dream events might ensue. Using this mind control and conditioning, it wasn't long before he was lucid dreaming every night. Besides the pleasurable encounters and adventures, he experimented with the way the mind constructs dreams — from the inside.


 
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