Audio Blog 7

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/jan/23/wake-up-dream/
In today's short, a man confronts a bully, and frees himself from a recurring nightmare that's terrorized him for more than 20 years.

This guy has a nighitmare thats been haunting him for twenty years now he says- and every single time he has it it always unfolds the same exact way. Violent, and hes also very scared of course (someone is trying to break into his house and screaming at him). Anyways, he was talking about how he started reading into Lucid dreaming- where you can 'control' your dream- and how he would try to attempt that in his nightmare. In the beginning it was wierd because when they were explaining how Lucid dreaming works its almost as if you'd get real life mixed up with your dreams and become a total psychopath because you're always asking yourself is this real life or is this all a dream whether it is real life or a dream! So I thought that was wierd and that someone could drive theirself nuts over that. So this guy basically spent his time thinking about his nigihtmare and at what point he'd like to gain conciousness within his dream and eventually did so and overcame his nightmare while he was at it. To me, I don't believe in Lucid dreaming. I feel like its just not possible, because your asleep and your not supposed to have a sense of c ontrol in your dreams. I feel like its un-natural to do that, and I don't like things that aren't the way that they're meant to be like say if someone who was born with black hair bleached it blonde- thats not the greatest example because anyone has control over that but its just an example of tampering with the natural state of something. So all in all I dont believe this whole Lucid dreaming thing but sure I believe he overcame his nightmare and that what he described was his actual dream, I just dont think he actually controlled it.