Experiences of dreaming and its variants, including lucid dreams, false awakenings and nightmares. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes dreaming. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Dream Phenomena rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.
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Lucid dream, Wikipedia
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In the psychology subfield of oneirology, a lucid dream is a type of dream wherein the dreamer knows that they are dreaming while in their dream.
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In the psychology subfield of oneirology, a lucid dream is a type of dream wherein the dreamer knows that they are dreaming while in their dream.
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A false awakening is a vivid scenario in which a person dreams that they have woken up, while still actually asleep.
Wikipedia: Dream
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A dream is a succession of images, dynamic scenes and situations, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
Wikipedia: Nightmare
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A nightmare, also known as a bad dream, is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety, disgust or sadness.
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