The Benefits of Lucid Dreaming

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Looking at present society, any major city could be mistaken for a honeybee comb. People frantically run around trying to complete their agenda, and scheduling events down to the minute. Following this busy schedule leads to an enormous amount of stress on the body and mind. A stress free life is what almost every individual strives for, and the amount of people that search on the internet for tips regarding stress relief or plans to “de-stress” is alarming. Lucid dreaming provides benefits to individuals that endure stress daily.
Sometimes stress cannot be controlled, but what if individuals could go anywhere in the world to relieve the stress? Lucid dreaming allows you to see, hear, and feel anything that you desire. This means while everyone in the house is asleep, you are experiencing a vacation in the Bahamas. Two individuals Hope, and Dr. Ursula Voss, both provide personal insight to show how lucid dreaming is being used to help people cope with stress.
Lucid dreaming is starting to be used for individuals who experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Individuals who experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder tend to have nightmares of the event. Every night, individuals have to experience the event that the causing them stress in the next day. Dr Ursula Voss, from the JW Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany stated in her journal, “Promoting gamma oscillations during REM sleep in post-traumatic stress disorder with re-emerging nightmares might trigger lucid dreaming and eventually enable active changes in dream content." To use lucid dreaming as therapy for PTSD individuals shows that the average person can relieve stress through lucid dreaming. PTSD individuals usually receive professional treatment for free, but l...

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