Sudden wakeup from sleep, being overcome by strange feelings, and considering yourself helpless are not new to humans. The symptoms of these feelings have been described in many ways from ancient times. Every culture throughout history has stories about this helplessness frightening experience.

A most common misperception about dreaming is that dreams only provide insights into our feelings and routines interpreted by our unconscious mind. Yes, dreams do reflect our daily lives, but they also offer several potential benefits like a solution to problems, making discoveries, extending creativity, etc.

Lucid dreaming is awareness of a dream taking place but remaining in the dream state. You can control your dreams to some extent, but this is not always the case, and an alternate to real-life to live free of all fears and inhibitions, confident enough to do anything in the world.

Lucid dreaming is getting popular among dreamers, and there are also many lucid dreaming movies on the go.

It is in human nature to search for meaning. Everywhere. Even for something as fundamental as nature – two thousand years ago, we would still attribute storms to the anger of gods like Thor or Posseidon and harmony to the peace and joy among all gods. But our conception of meaning itself has changed with the development of civilization.

Our dreams are often unclear and fuzzy. They are also out of control and have little to no access to our real life. But research shows that everyone experienced awareness of dreaming at least once in their lifespan. Sometimes, this awareness leads to the capability of directing our dream by changing scenes, characters, and emotions.

A dream is an alternative world to reality, but we consider things happening in our dream as actual events. On the other hand, when you are conscious and control your dream, you enter the realm of lucid dreaming.

Lucid dreaming is an incredible experience in which you are conscious and control your dream during sleep. These are unique experiences –you can do anything, regardless of the risks and dangers. You can't even think of it in the real world: flying, jumping from a cliff, or meeting a celebrity.

Every one of us experiences a confusing and blurry sequence of visuals comprised of pictures, feelings, scenes, and ambiances that occur unwillingly in the mindduring the REM stage of sleep. These confusing blurry visuals are our dreams, but their content and function are still not understood completely.

You might have heard of lucid dreaming earlier through songs and movies, but have you ever thought that lucid dreams were the primary source of inspiration for such works of art and science by many painters, directors, and even inventors? How did conscious sleeping contribute to their success and our understanding of reality and time?

Here are 10 worldwide-known Lucid Dreamers.