lucid dreaming

English

Etymology

Coined by psychiatrist Frederik Willem van Eeden in his 1913 paper A Study of Dreams. It is possible that he coined this as a calque of "rêve lucide", which appears in Les Rêves et les Moyens de les Diriger; Observations Pratiques (1867) by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys.

Noun

lucid dreaming (uncountable)

1. A form of dreaming in which the conscious mind takes control over the contents of the dream.

Related terms

• lucid dream
• oneironautics

Translations

Lucid dreaming

• Finnish: selkouni (fi)
• German: Klarträumen (de) n,
• Hebrew: חלימה מודעת f (khalima mudat)
• Lithuanian: sąmoningas sapnavimas m
• Russian: осо́знанные сновиде́ния (ru) n pl (osóznannyje snovidénija)