Lucid Dreaming Persuasive Speech

Dreaming is one of the hardest subjects to study, making almost every known fact unprovable. This means for every theory about dreaming, it is up to the dreamer to draw their own conclusions. With that being said, it doesn’t mean that we know nothing about dreams, in fact, we study dreams just about every day even without knowing it. You and I dream every night, whisked away to another world where anything is possible. But what if I told you that you make up the rules in that world and can control everything that happens around you. This would stir up interest from the most hardheaded men, because even they have accepted that we have no control over the crazy world we live in from day to day. All this is possible with something called “lucid dreaming.” With new research being done every year and a plethora of viable cases to review, it is …show more content…
Many believe that these so-called lucid dreams are just brief arousals from the sleeping state to what we know as a day dream. The main argument against lucid dreaming is that everyone who admits having accomplished reaching this state, were awake the whole time. Before recent technology, you could only believe what you were told by a test subject, and there was no way to tell if they were just laying down or actually in REM sleep. LaBerge has done an excellent job providing us with the ability to give signs when you reach certain stages of sleep. When you enter REM sleep your eyes will move or your fists will clench, both of which can be observed on a polygraph. LaBerge did this many times before attempting to study dreams by proving first, that he could study sleep patterns and prove his subjects were asleep. He was quoted saying “"it is embarrassingly awkward to assert that subjects who reported being certain that they were asleep while showing physiological indications of unequivocal sleep were actually awake”