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or instance, aspects of your experience may seem unusual or out of place, like an elephant wandering through your kitchen.</p><p id="1465">As long as elephants don’t walk around your home, there’s a good chance you aren’t awake, but you might take a while to recognize you are asleep.</p><p id="a309">People often remember dreams in which they had a vague idea they were dreaming yet didn’t become clear about their state. They went with the flow rather than moving to the next stage of lucidity.</p><h1 id="fafa">Stage two</h1><p id="d90d">During stage two of lucid dreaming, you’re likely to have flashes of clarity when you know you are asleep. You may feel excited but fall back into non-aware sleep, where lucidity ends.</p><p id="1cf4">If you set the intention to remain alert when signs of dreaming occur, you may prolong episodes of awareness and shift into stage three.</p><h1 id="50e8">Stage three</h1><p id="b0ba">Phase three involves prolonged lucid dreaming when you know you are in a dream and can sustain your awareness. You can also steer what happens by choosing how to react to aspects of your dream.</p><p id="b003">Thus, if there’s an elephant in your experience, you might make friends with him and feed him buns from your kitchen cupboard. However, you do

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n’t control the entire dream; you interact with it.</p><h1 id="1e57">Stage four</h1><p id="45cd">Everyone who wants to become proficient at lucid dreaming aims to experience stage four. At the last level of lucidity, you know you’re dreaming and control your dream entirely, creating it as you wish.</p><p id="16dc">Instead of having to fetch buns for the hungry elephant in your dream, you can snap your fingers and rustle up a gourmet feast for your new pal, fly with him across the ocean, and become an elephant, too.</p><p id="11df">Stage four is exhilarating because you control space and matter. You can visit another planet, turn sand into gold, and do anything else you like.</p><p id="34e5">If you want lucid dreams, understanding the dream scale is useful. Knowing about the different levels of lucidity can help you recognize how much headway you make on your journey.</p><p id="d3e5">Also, your awareness of the scale while awake might seep into your psyche and rise as you dream to help you move forward.</p><p id="2d6c" type="7">“I would recall a vision which I dreamed Perchance in sleep — for in itself a thought, A slumbering thought is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour.”</p><p id="5a0f" type="7">George (Lord) Byron</p></article></body>

The Lucid Dreaming Scale: How Lucid Can You Get?

Here are the stages of lucidity

You might imagine you’re either lucid or not during dreams, but this isn’t necessarily the case, according to Professor Berit Brogaard, D.M.Sci., Ph.D.

Four levels of lucidity exist, ranging from those first few moments of a dream when you aren’t sure if you’re awake to complete active awareness and control. Understanding the dreaming scale can help you chart your progress if you want more lucid dreams.

Stage one

Stage one is the most common phase of lucid dreaming, and people rarely move into the next stage unless they take action to increase and improve their experience. At the first level of lucidity, you might have a hazy idea you are dreaming, but not be sure.

Something in your dream may make you question if you’re dreaming or facing reality. For instance, aspects of your experience may seem unusual or out of place, like an elephant wandering through your kitchen.

As long as elephants don’t walk around your home, there’s a good chance you aren’t awake, but you might take a while to recognize you are asleep.

People often remember dreams in which they had a vague idea they were dreaming yet didn’t become clear about their state. They went with the flow rather than moving to the next stage of lucidity.

Stage two

During stage two of lucid dreaming, you’re likely to have flashes of clarity when you know you are asleep. You may feel excited but fall back into non-aware sleep, where lucidity ends.

If you set the intention to remain alert when signs of dreaming occur, you may prolong episodes of awareness and shift into stage three.

Stage three

Phase three involves prolonged lucid dreaming when you know you are in a dream and can sustain your awareness. You can also steer what happens by choosing how to react to aspects of your dream.

Thus, if there’s an elephant in your experience, you might make friends with him and feed him buns from your kitchen cupboard. However, you don’t control the entire dream; you interact with it.

Stage four

Everyone who wants to become proficient at lucid dreaming aims to experience stage four. At the last level of lucidity, you know you’re dreaming and control your dream entirely, creating it as you wish.

Instead of having to fetch buns for the hungry elephant in your dream, you can snap your fingers and rustle up a gourmet feast for your new pal, fly with him across the ocean, and become an elephant, too.

Stage four is exhilarating because you control space and matter. You can visit another planet, turn sand into gold, and do anything else you like.

If you want lucid dreams, understanding the dream scale is useful. Knowing about the different levels of lucidity can help you recognize how much headway you make on your journey.

Also, your awareness of the scale while awake might seep into your psyche and rise as you dream to help you move forward.

“I would recall a vision which I dreamed Perchance in sleep — for in itself a thought, A slumbering thought is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour.”

George (Lord) Byron