What is the history of lucid dreaming?
- Human beings have been lucid dreaming for thousands of years .
- Lucid dreaming is most known for being central to both the ancient Indian Hindu practice of yoga nidra and the Tibetan Buddhist practice of dream yoga.
- Aristotle once wrote, ‘often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream’.
- Although people have been experiencing lucid dreams for thousands of years, it was only in recent history that it was scientifically proven in a sleep lab by Dr Keith Hearne, in 1975.
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