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Introduction Starting from the ancient times human was always interested in strange phenomenon of sleeping and especially in dreams. Dreams were described in different ways. For instance, dreams were explained psychologically like images of sub consciousness and feedback of neural processes in human’s brain. Spiritually, it was described like messages of god (C.S. Lewis, nd). Remarkable that not only human have ability to see dreams but several species of animals (Wilkerson R. 2003). For example, rat’s sleep is almost same as the human’s they have multiple stages of sleep starting from slow wave sleep to REM stage of sleep (Animals have complex dreams, 2001). Another fact is that living beings, including humans, have more REM sleep in†¦show more content†¦Thus, dreams can be explained as a psycho physiological protection measure hitch of endocrinological systems, compensating development of the same substances at daily ability to live. Erotic dreams during the age of sexual maturation can be used as an example of such feedback. But in some cases dreamers suddenly realize that they are asleep, usually because in dream they experience something to such extent bizarre and strange so they become aware that they are dreaming, so they get an opportunity to manipulate the content of dream. That type of dream is called â€Å"Lucid Dreams†. Lucid Dreams Lucid dream can be defined as a dream state, in which person for some reasons knows that he is dreaming. This definition firstly was given by Frederik van Eeden who used term ‘’lucid’’ in order to explain mental clarity during such type of dreams (Fredrik van Eeden, 1913). In common cases lucidity happens in the REM stages when the dreamer suddenly realizes that the activity occurs not in a reality but in a dream. Typically the reason of this is experiencing very odd and impossible activities which trigger consciousness to doubt whether happening is real or not. 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