<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/610695d4-e38b-416d-913e-8cdd977f33db/FB51DAB2-6F13-4A21-9A89-985E6E283D80/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://itotd.com/articles/213/lucid-dreams/" href="http://itotd.com/articles/213/lucid-dreams/" style="font-size: 11px;">itotd.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://itotd.com/articles/213/lucid-dreams/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: Lucid Dreams" rel="bookmark" href="http://itotd.com/articles/213/lucid-dreams/">Lucid Dreams</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://itotd.com/articles/213/lucid-dreams/"><H3>Waking up to the reality of dreaming</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://itotd.com/articles/213/lucid-dreams/"><P>I dream that I am standing in a very unfamiliar building. Something about the strangeness of my surroundings leads me to wonder if I might not be <A href="http://amazon.com/gp/product/034537410X?ie=UTF8&tag=itotd-20&link_code=em1&camp=212341&creative=384065&creativeASIN=034537410X&adid=1f865ebb-94d4-4aaf-8455-70ab6cf3014a" target="_blank" id="amzn_cl_link_0" name="034537410X">dreaming</A>. I decide to perform a little experiment to determine whether it really is a dream or not. There is a short flight of stairs ahead of me going down to a lower level. I know that if I jump off the top step and find I can fly, it must be a dream, whereas if land normally, it isn’t. So I jump, and sure enough, I float down to the next level. “Cool!” I think, “I <EM>am</EM> dreaming—that must mean I can do anything I want!” But I can’t decide what to do next. I try walking through some people but that doesn’t work, and after a few minutes I slip back into the unconscious world of regular dreams. Nevertheless, the experience is fascinating and exhilarating. Being able to consciously <A href="http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000823V5G?ie=UTF8&tag=itotd-20&link_code=em1&camp=212341&creative=384065&creativeASIN=B000823V5G&adid=4cbd76d1-316f-449c-ba11-fae9f511665f" target="_blank" id="amzn_cl_link_1" name="B000823V5G">influence the course</A> of my dream is a wonderfully novel sensation.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://itotd.com/articles/213/lucid-dreams/"><DIV id="logo"><A href="http://itotd.com/."></A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FB51DAB2-6F13-4A21-9A89-985E6E283D80/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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