I have had episodes of 'Lucid Dreaming' Where the dream is a state where there is the awareness that the experience is a dream. When it happened there was the awareness of both a relative ability to control actions, plus the 'knowledge' that being a dream, there was no danger of, for example 'falling off a cliff'. Knowing it is a dream, means Gravity has no hold, and the imagination can experience the dream equivalent of 'flying' While I have had the memory of the dreams, I did not consider it to be something that could be induced, rather I thought it was just a natural dream variation. This site gives some details on how it can be induced, with associated information on some clinical aspects of dreaming, and sleep. Somewhere I heard that one of the major factors that can dictate the nature of some dreams, is the thinking just before falling asleep. Particularly the last thought.

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I did a lot of lucid dreaming when I was a kid & looked forward to going to sleep because I could fly, walk through walls & breathe under water. I even recall one dream where this fella was trying to hurt me & I told him he couldn't because it was a dream. I told him watch this as I rubbed my eyes & I woke up laughing at the thought of what had happened. The 1st time I heard of lucid dreaming I was in my 20s sometime in the late 60s/early 70s.