Paul Davies
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280 appearances
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first heard Mar 2008
last heard Nov 2014
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The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you're constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics.
You can do magic.
So I'm Paul Davies.
I'm director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University.
I began lucid dreaming when I was a teenager.
I'd always suffered from nightmares even as a very young child, and this was very terrifying.
But in my mid to late teens I had what at the time was a very disturbing, if not terrifying, different type of dream, in which I thought I was awake.
But actually I was asleep.
It seemed so vivid, everything seemed so real and normal, I could see the bedroom around me, and yet I felt paralyzed.
So I felt I was trapped in sleep and that this might very well go on forever.
And then I realized in later years that these were what people call lucid dreams, and then once I realized that this was a particular type of dream state, I began to get interested in it.
And began to try to induce these lucid dreams.
And I should explain right away that a lucid dream is not just the same as a vivid dream.
Everybody has vivid dreams.
A lucid dream is where you can have all of the fine details.
So, for example, you look at a tree and you can see individual leaves in all their glory, and you have the tactile sensation.
You get the whole
small range of sensory experience.
And if you're aware it's a lucid dream, then you can say aha, I'm now in this dream state.
What next?
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