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A lucid dream occurs when a person is asleep but aware that they are dreaming. In this state, a person can take control of their dream's narrative to some degree, essentially guiding and directing the course of their dream.

Because this type of sleep is associated with awareness and the reflection of this awareness, it is often associated with what is known as metacognition. Metacognition involves the awareness and understanding of your own thought processes.

Research suggests that lucid dreaming and metacognitive functions share similar neural systems. This means that people with heightened abilities to monitor their own thoughts may be more likely to experience lucid dreams.

How to Experience a Lucid Dream

You can do a few things to help increase your chances of experiencing a lucid dream:

Get more REM sleep: The best way to get more REM sleep is to increase the amount of quality sleep that you get each night. Improve your sleep habits by following a consistent sleep schedule, avoiding electronics before bed, skipping heavy meals and caffeine later in the day, and maintaining a comfortable sleep environment.

Keep a dream diary: Some people report that maintaining a dream diary makes it more likely that they will experience lucid dreams. The act of focusing more on dreams may help you become more aware of the experience when it happens.

Use mnemonic induction of lucid dreams (MILD): In this technique, you tell yourself repeatedly that you will dream and that you will be aware that you are dreaming. The technique relies on a form of memory known as prospective memory, or the ability to remember future events, to activate a lucid dream state.

Practice reality testing: This process involves doing checks while awake and asleep to determine if one is dreaming. For example, you might try pressing your finger against a wall to see if you are dreaming. If you are not, the solid wall would stop your finger. In a dream, however, your finger might simply pass through the wall. Getting used to doing reality testing while awake may help make it easier to do it while you are asleep.

History of Lucid Dreaming

Awareness of dream states during a dream played a role in Eastern religious traditions including Buddhism. The first written record of a lucid dream was described by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. In his work On Dreams, he described reaching a state of awareness of his dreaming state.﻿﻿

While the phenomenon was first observed and described thousands of years ago, it was not until the nineteenth century that scientists began to take a more formal look at lucid dreaming. Not until the last few decades have researchers utilized objective scientific methods to actually study what happens during a lucid dream.

Research during the 1960s and 1970s led to the discovery that lucid dreams were associated with REM sleep and the creation of the electrooculogram (EOG) that could be used to detect a pre-determined set of eye movements in order to signal awareness.

The development of technology such as the electroencephalogram (EEG) and other tools that allow researchers to look more closely at what is happening inside the brain during sleep has led to increased research on changes in brain activity during lucid dreaming.

How to Know If Your Dream Is Lucid

During most non-lucid dreams, people are not aware of the fact that they are dreaming. A common characteristic of these dreams is that even when truly strange things happen within the dream, it seems real. It is only after people wake that they realize that it was only a dream.

When having a lucid dream, however, there is a recognition that what is happening is not real and that it is taking place within a dream. This often allows the dreamer to exert some degree of control over what is happening.

How do you know if you have had a lucid dream? Some signs that you might have had this experience in the past:

You were aware that you were asleep and dreaming.

Your dream was very vivid.

You were able to exert some degree of control over the events or scenery in your dream.

Your emotions were very intense.

Prevalence of Lucid Dreaming

How many people have lucid dreams? How frequently do they experience them? Research suggests that the spontaneous experience of lucid dreaming tends to be fairly infrequent, but many people report having them at least once. Experiencing lucid dreams on a frequent basis, however, appears to be fairly uncommon.

Approximately half of all people will have at least one lucid dream during their lifetime.

Around 23% of people have one lucid dream per month.﻿﻿

However, only 11% of people report having two or more lucid dreams over the course of a month.﻿﻿

The results of one study suggested that lucid dreaming tends to be more common in women and may decrease in frequency as people age.﻿﻿

Uses of Lucid Dreaming

Because lucid dreaming is such a vivid experience, it appeals to those who want to explore their inner dream world with greater awareness. The idea of lucid dreaming is so intriguing to people because, as some researchers suggest, it is "the ultimate form of immersive experience."

"[Lucid dreaming] offers a (free) unique and fantastic world in which everything may become possible or controllable and feels real without putting the dreamer at risk," suggest researchers in an article published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. This combination of fantastic sensory and emotional experiences, they suggest, is what makes lucid dreaming so highly desirable.﻿﻿

Aside from the novelty of the experience, could lucid dreaming have any practical applications? While this is an area where further research is needed, it may have some possible uses. Some potential benefits are listed below.

Enhanced Creativity

Because lucid dreaming allows the dreamer to invent or create anything within the dream, it could be an exciting way to explore creatively and safely within the confines of a dream.

Because the dreamer has some degree of control over the characters, scenery, and events of the dream, it could be a way to experience and explore things that a person might not be able to do in everyday life.

Fewer Nightmares

Some researchers believe that lucid dreaming might have some therapeutic effects, particularly for addressing nightmares. Bad dreams can interrupt sleep and can play a role in reducing the quantity and quality of sleep.

Lucid dreaming could allow people to take control of their dreams and either prevent nightmares from happening or redirect the events of the dream toward something more pleasant or relaxing.﻿﻿

Less Anxiety

Some suggest that lucid dreams might be useful for reducing symptoms of anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).﻿﻿ Because the dream allows people to explore situations with a degree of control, they could do things like practice doing things that normally give them anxiety or learning to relax in situations that would normally cause them stress if they were to experience it in the real world.

Other Applications

Such findings suggest that lucid dreaming may have a number of different uses. Further research is needed to explore whether people can learn to lucid dream and the possible effects that the dream state may actually have.

Research on Lucid Dreams

Lucid dreaming can be difficult to study. Because it is uncommon, it is difficult to find participants who are able to experience this type of dreaming in a lab setting.﻿﻿

How exactly do researchers study lucid dreaming? During REM sleep, people who are experiencing a lucid dream maintain the same brain activity and muscle paralysis that are hallmarks of REM sleep. However, they are able to communicate their experience of lucid dreaming through predetermined eye movements that can be detected and monitored.

While researchers continue to find new ways to investigate the phenomenon, they still aren't sure exactly why people have lucid dreams. Research has shown, however, some ways that lucid dreaming may be unique from normal dreaming.

Other studies have found that certain areas of the prefrontal cortex appear to exhibit increased activity during lucid dreaming compared to standard REM sleep.﻿﻿ The prefrontal cortex is the area of the brain associated with higher-level cognitive tasks such as decision making and memory recall.

The research shows that the anterior prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain associated with higher levels of self-reflection, is larger in people who report having frequent lucid dreams. The researchers suggest that people who are more likely to engage in such self-reflection during normal waking life are also more readily able to take control of their dreams.﻿﻿

Potential Pitfalls of Lucid Dreaming

There are a number of factors that can play a role in whether or not you experience lucid dreaming. While lucid dreaming may have some mental health benefits, some evidence suggests that it may also have some downsides. Some things to remember:

Negative mental health impacts: Some research suggests that lucid dreaming might actually have a negative connection to mental well-being. One study found that people who have more intense lucid dreams also tend to experience increased symptoms of psychopathology. The study also suggested that the techniques used to induce lucid dreams may also have potential long-term risks, including a higher risk for sleep problems, depression, and dissociation.

Sleep interruptions: Because lucid dreams can be so vivid and emotional, they have the potential to interrupt your sleep. Also, some of the methods used to help induce lucid dreams are centered on deliberately interrupting sleep. The MILD technique, for example, is most effective if a person wakes up during the night, stays awake for approximately 30 to 120 minutes, and then falls back to sleep. Such methods may help induce lucid dreams, but they can also play a role in reducing sleep duration and quality. Poor sleep can then have a negative impact on your mental health and well-being.

You might be more likely to have bad dreams. Invoking dreams that are both vivid and emotional could potentially make it more likely that nightmares will occur.

Your personality might play a role. Some research has suggested that lucid dreaming and certain personality traits may be connected in some way. One study found that lucid dreamers tend to have a greater internal locus of control. They also score higher on measures of a need for cognition and creativity. Another study found small correlations between lucid dreaming and aspects of the Big 5 personality trait known as openness to experience.

So, although you can do things that make spontaneously experiencing a lucid dream more likely, it is impossible to guarantee that you will be able to induce the experience.

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Joe is a straight man in his twenties. Like many men, he passionately rejects astrology.

"It strips people of their uniqueness and reduces them to pigeonholed blocks of characteristics," he tells me. "I don't like being a real logic lord about it, on some 'I am the ultimate skeptic! Facts don't care about your feelings, compadre!' vibe. However, I do find it really fucking irritating, and the memes are all really annoying and I hate the self-aggrandisement of '[Star sign] season, bitches!'"

By that, he means people on social media announcing the calendar entry into a new zodiac sign. From now until the 22nd of November, for instance, it's Scorpio season, bitches.

"Aren't you a Taurus?" I ask, knowing full well that he is. He replies: "Are you going to tell me this is a very Taurus way of behaving?" I tell him that Taureans are often pegged as the sign least likely to believe in astrology.

Over the past two to three years, astrology has shifted from being a niche interest to a major point of enthusiasm for many women and queer people. Broadly, VICE's channel geared towards women and the LGBTQ community, gets a huge amount of traffic from astrological features and horoscopes. Other media platforms for women have noticeably ramped up astrology content from filler to the forefront. In the UK, Google searches for "birth chart" doubled between November of 2013 and November of 2018. Since September of 2017, there's been a steady increase in people searching "astrological compatibility". All that interest has given publishing a boost: sales of mind, body and spirit books are booming; in 2017, sales rose by 13 percent in just a year.

In 2016, mental health was prime meme fodder; now, astrology memes are all over our timelines. Swipe through a dating app and you'll soon find a woman who's included their sign in emoji in their bio as shorthand for personality traits, likes and dislikes, and an indicator for compatibility.

But not everyone is onboard. Joe is not alone in his antipathy to the cosmological boom; straight men seem to be frequently apathetic or adverse to astrology. In a 2005 Gallup UK poll, just over twice as many women in the UK believed in astrology compared to men (30 percent to 14 percent of a data pool of 1,010 people). A 2017 study by Pew Research Centre found that 20 percent of adult men in the US believed in astrology, compared to 37 percent of women.

If you're a straight man with a lot of female friends, you probably tolerate astrology ("It's gotten to the point where I'm sharing Virgo memes in the group chat like 'lol, me', but I still don't like it," says Adam Snape from Manchester). And if you don't, you likely think it's a load of shit ("If you try to bring up that shit with me, I'll think you're a mindless bimbo," Tom, 25, London). There are obviously women and LGBTQ people who feel similarly, but why is this attitude so prevalent among straight men in particular? Is it because astrology is generally seen as a "women's" interest?

A couple of the men I spoke to referenced their dads reading daily horoscopes in the tabloids, realising that any of the vague summaries could apply to them and deciding they would never return to astrology. "It was the first time I'd noticed something so embedded in our culture was surely just bollocks, and it sent me into a tailspin," says Sam Hill, 27, from Lincoln.

Most admitted being put off because astrology had been so gendered. "As a child, the females [would go] for tea and biscuits round my nan's, where the astrology columns of the Mail and the dreaded Sun would be read out with various degrees of mystery and giggling," 36-year-old Bob from Kent remembered. "Nowadays, [horoscopes are] near the women's section in the papers or in female-specific weeklies such as Woman's Own or Take A Break. I can't remember Esquire or Loaded having such pages when I read them many moons ago.""

His opinion on astrology? "Waste of time. Waste of energy. Waste of chip paper. It's like the lottery for lonely people."

Sam feels similarly that astrology has always been gendered, and that the male response to that - to ignore it - makes sense. "It's hard to indicate what I mean, but, for example, if a girl in school likes a certain book, the boys can't like it for fear of being called gay or whatever, so that book becomes a girl's book," he said. "The same can be said of horoscopes. I think women are drawn to them out of a sense of curiosity and spirituality that is drummed out of boys at a young age."

Unsurprisingly, dating has provided a stage for tension. As women become more hooked on astrology, more straight men are being forced to engage with it. Most of the men I spoke to talked about astrology chat ruining dates, or ex-girlfriends who were "too obsessed" with the cosmos.

"After the initial stages of 'getting to know you', it became apparent that she was quite into her spiritual side: short of a nose piercing and a gap year spent in India, she was a paid-up member of the horoscope crew, with a little smattering of tarot reading and general warnings to 'watch out for karma'," says Laurie, 29, from London. "At first I quite enjoyed it: as a spiritually bankrupt man it was nice having some direction to consider in my life beyond the deep-set, middle-class guilt I'd had bullied into me at school. She met my parents - a meeting I thought went well, until my dad laughed in her face when she asked what his sign was and suggested that cancer signs typically struggled with appreciating music."

The family ended up having an "icy" tube journey home, the ex upset that Laurie's dad had given her beliefs so little patience. Both had an explosive argument about astrology that ended in her "consulting some charts for me there and then to see if my decision-making or reasoning was being negatively affected by Mercury or some similar shite", and Laurie breaking up with her via text.

Kevin from Ireland says his ex used her birth chart to justify poor behaviour or bad moods, while Paul from Essex says a woman he slept with looked up his chart and got rapidly into him based off their supposed compatibility, "but ignored all the stuff that suggested I was difficult (I am) and that we weren't destined to be together (we weren't)".

Adam, 26, from Oxford, was dating a female friend when an initial interest in astrology became a gateway drug to all sorts of New Age stuff, like tarot and palm reading. "It wasn't something I was into myself, but it became a really defining feature of the whole relationship, which was a case of 'not really for me, thanks'," he says. "It stops being an interest and [becomes] a personality trait: 'I'm an astrology girl.'"

Would Adam date another Astrology Girl? "If it was a minor interest in their life it wouldn't bother me. If it was a major thing? Nope."

All of the above has been observed by working astrologers, too. Jessica Lanyadoo, who hosts Ghost Of A Podcast, said, "I know lots of cis straight male astrologers, but not as many cis straight male astrology fans." Astrologer Randon Rosenbohm agrees, telling me "it's for girls and gays".

"Astrology is a natural, intuitive way of telling time, and women are more in tune with nature," Randon continues. "Men, however, are builders who work with the material world. Unless you give a straight man evidence of astrology being real, they're less likely to find it remotely interesting."

In other words, Randon thinks men might be more likely to be immediately dismissive, while women might feel something out. A large study released this month found that women are more empathetic and men more analytical, and there is some evidence to show that women's brains will stay with a distressing feeling while a male brain will seek a solution. But gendered biology is a highly disputed field: not every man is a builder, and neither is anyone with a womb somehow bound to be more naturally in tune with nature.

With or without that purported "natural intuition", women are undoubtedly driving the wider self-help and therapeutic industries. Often, there's little separation between self-help and astrology; the latter is often used as a type of the former. Ghost Of A Podcast, for example, has a set-up where the first-half is self-help agony aunt, and the second astrological forecasting for the upcoming week.

"Astrology doesn't shy away from symbols that explore our weaknesses and 'weak feelings', like grief, trauma, sorrow, denial, misperception, projection, self-sabotage, victimisation," says astrologer Danny Larkin. "And that runs counter to how straight men are constantly encouraged in their lives to man up instead of open up. It's easier and more palatable to observe that women and queer people are often on the short end of the stick in many situations, so it's easier for them to identify with these difficult themes that astrology probes."

To understand your and others' personalities, to try to predict the future: ultimately, it's grasping for control, when we have none. Women and queer people are drawn to astrology because it offers community and refuge, something to lean on during a time in which religion has taken a backseat. In a heterosexual patriarchy, cis-het men arguably have less to seek refuge from. It is during times of significant stress that people turn to astrology, after all. In a 1982 study, the psychologist Graham Tyson found that people who consult astrologers did so in response to stressors, writing, "Under conditions of high stress, the individual is prepared to use astrology as a coping device, even though under low-stress conditions he does not believe in it."

Personally, a vague interest I'd had in astrology since I was a kid was solidified once I did my birth chart and found it to be eerily accurate. As soon as conflicting deadlines strike in tandem with my rising anxiety levels, and if I've not been looking after myself properly, I notice I'm checking astrology apps and podcasts more. But without that initial "in" I'd never have gone down the rabbit hole. It's just about the entry point and who gets there.

I ask Joe if I can do his birth chart. He says I can, so I go onto Cafe Astrology and work it out for him, sharing some of his characteristics: stubborn, stoical, likes pleasure and the arts, might easily get a bruised ego if not "heard".

It is, he says, pretty much accurate - but to express any kind of joy over astrological correctness would be an endorsement he could never give.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.

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If you've been struggling to dream or remember your dreams, you're not alone. Stress, hectic routines, and exertion can lead to broken patterns of dreams and sleep.

Fragmented sleep is something every one of us likely deals with in our lifetime, some a lot more than others.

Before we get into the best crystals for dreaming, it helps to understand what exactly is going on in the brain when we sleep...

How Do We Dream?

We sleep in three stages. The first stage is called Alpha or Theta, and this is the stage when we're not fully asleep. We are still conscious of our whereabouts and can easily be awakened.

As the body relaxes further, our temperature cools down, our heartbeat lowers and we drift off into a sleep slumber called Delta.

This is the state when we're fully asleep and we begin to dream. It's also known as Rapid Eye Movement or REM, and we experience almost 3-4 of these cycles in a night.

Dreaming is very important for brain health. According to a study by The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, "dreaming is like overnight therapy," and it serves as a method of healing.

It's the only time the brain is absolutely free from any anxiety, worries, or stress. A lack of dreams and fragmented sleep can often cause depression, mood swings, and other psychological disorders.

One way we can stimulate dreams is through the process of dream work.

What Is Dream Work?

Dream work is like diving into a pool of uncharted waters inside of the brain. It's a process by which we can evoke, uncover, and interpret an entirely new part of our psyche.

Through dream work, we can decipher and even recover from psychological or emotional distress.

Lucid dreaming is commonly practiced to support dream work. Lucid dreams can occur on their own during an REM cycle, but most people opt to learn how to evoke them themselves.

A lucid dream is essentially a dream in which the brain dissociates from the body and we become aware of the fact that we're dreaming. So while the body remains asleep, our consciousness runs free.

The thing with lucid dreaming is that when we gain control over it, we can begin to influence our dreams. This is where crystals can come in handy.

Known for their healing properties, crystals hold certain vibrations and energies that can be used to heal a variety of physical and emotional distress, including sleep disorders.

We've compiled a list of 12 crystals for dreaming that can help resolve any issues you may have around dreams and sleep...

Amethyst is a popular crystal known for its ability to stimulate the third eye chakra, which serves as a connection to the spiritual realm.

The vibrations of this crystal are helpful for regulating our dreams, making it one of the best crystals for lucid dreaming. If you're just diving into dream work, Amethyst should be the first crystal you opt for.

Ametrine is a natural blend of Amethyst and Citrine, creating a powerful combination of both of their energies. Another top choice for dream work and lucid dreaming, this crystal serves to enhance mental clarity while opening up our consciousness.

Howlite is another great crystal for dreaming. It vibrates at a frequency that brings a sense of serenity to its user.

It calms rage, anxiety, negativity, and can also relieve and regulate issues related to sleep. In essence, this stone helps alleviate any brain fog to make space for dreams.

Labradorite

Lepidolite

Next to Amethyst, Lepidolite is also one of the most effective crystals for dreaming. It helps to remove blockages and overcome self-defeating habits, which in turn can stimulate emotional and psychological healing.

Blue Apatite

Bloodstone

When used with the intention to regulate sleep patterns and support dream work, this stone serves to be a powerful crystal for lucid dreaming.

Clear Quartz

Lapis Lazuli

It can connect with higher frequencies to expand our consciousness, while providing a deeper connection to the mind, body and spirit.

How to Use Crystals for Dream Work

There are many ways you can use crystals to support dream work. Some beneficial methods include:

Practicing a third eye chakra meditation and placing the stone between your eyebrows.

Practicing a sleep meditation while holding onto the stone.

Placing the crystals under your pillow, on your nightstand, or anywhere around your place of sleep.

Final Thoughts

These practices have been carried on throughout generations, helping us regulate our sleep, stimulate our dreams, and gain control over our subconscious.

Once you begin using these crystals for dream work, you're likely to achieve a noticeable difference in both your sleep and dream cycles.

If you're tired of forgotten dreams and fragmented sleep, these crystals for dreaming may be the support you're looking for.

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- What is the reason for the increasing interest in different forms of spirituality? (feeling disconnected from religion but adopting different 'alternative practices'
- Why do women and queer people in particular are more drawn to explore different spiritual practices?

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What is tarot?
-Tarot, any of a set of cards used in tarot games and in fortune-telling. Tarot decks were invented in Italy in the 1430s by adding to the existing four-suited pack a fifth suit of 21 specially illustrated cards called trionfi (“triumphs”) and an odd card called il matto (“the fool”).
-The adaptation of tarots to occult and fortune-telling purposes first occurred in France about 1780. For fortune-telling each tarot card is ascribed a meaning. The cards of the major arcana refer to spiritual matters and important trends in the questioner’s life.
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How do they work?
-Now, the answer to that question may differ, depending on who you ask and how they personally connect with the Tarot cards. That's because Tarot is simply a tool, and as with all kinds of tools, how you use it is completely up to you.
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·      In the UK, Google searches for "birth chart" doubled between November of 2013 and November of 2018. Since September of 2017, there's been a steady increase in people searching "astrological compatibility". All that interest has given publishing a boost: sales of mind, body and spirit books are booming; in 2017, sales rose by 13 percent in just a year.

·      In a 2005 Gallup UK poll, just over twice as many women in the UK believed in astrology compared to men (30 percent to 14 percent of a data pool of 1,010 people). A 2017 study by Pew Research Centre found that 20 percent of adult men in the US believed in astrology, compared to 37 percent of women.

·      Women and queer people are drawn to astrology because it offers community and refuge, something to lean on during a time in which religion has taken a backseat. In a heterosexual patriarchy, cis-het men arguably have less to seek refuge from.

·      In a 1982 study, the psychologist Graham Tyson found that people who consult astrologers did so in response to stressors, writing, "Under conditions of high stress, the individual is prepared to use astrology as a coping device, even though under low-stress conditions he does not believe in it."

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