{"id":75382,"date":"2025-05-26T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&p=75382"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:24:49","slug":"learning-to-dream-lucidly","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/after-dark\/learning-to-dream-lucidly\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to dream lucidly: awake in your own mind\u2019s cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Steering your dreams consciously, without apps and without hype: what sleep research knows about lucid dreaming.
\nBy Lotta Fuhrken<\/a> (text), Clara Sch\u00f6ttke<\/a> (photos)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n

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Flying like a bird,<\/strong> diving into fantasy worlds<\/strong> or shaping a life exactly as you wish \u2013 many people dream of going beyond the limits of reality. Lucid dreaming and reality shifting are supposed to make exactly that possible. Three people share their experiences: Daniel W\u00fcnsch<\/a>, a lucid-dreaming coach; the dream researcher Prof. Dr Michael Schredl<\/a>; and the author Johanna Koers<\/a>. They describe how they experience these phenomena in their own way.

Lucid dreaming describes the state in which we are aware that we are dreaming. In some lucid dreams, this also gives us the ability to actively shape the dream world. This kind of dreaming was proven around 1980 by two researchers, Stephen LaBerge and Keith Hearne, independently of each other. Coach Daniel W\u00fcnsch has been working with lucid dreams for many years and says lucid dreaming is not only an adventure but also a tool for personal development. He himself used lucid dreaming to resolve a nightmare that had haunted him for 27 years. That is also how Daniel W\u00fcnsch found his calling, and he wants to teach lucid dreaming to as many people as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At some point I thought it\u2019s actually really nice not to dream lucidly.<\/strong> And not to make conscious decisions and control almost everything, the way I already do in real life.<\/p>\n <\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

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