Lucid Dreaming on Latin Wikipedia (Vicipaedia)

**L4xord** · 03-09-2013 07:30 AM

This is kind of a pointless post but cool nonetheless. As a fan of Latin, I love Vicipaedia and on my searches I discovered clarum somnium the page for LDs on the Latin Wikipedia. Personally the name doesn't quite capture the essence of lucid dreaming but it is still pretty neat!

**paigeyemps** · 03-09-2013 07:59 AM

Nice! Wish I knew Latin though

got any interesting parts of it you wanna share with us?

**L4xord** · 03-09-2013 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Nice! Wish I knew Latin though

got any interesting parts of it you wanna share with us?

Here's a translation (although slightly botched since the Latin in the website isn't quite correct in some places, so I apologize for the weirdness of the translation) the first part:
When a human who is sleeping realises he himself is dreaming, he is doing a lucid dream (or he is lucid dreaming). Relying upon clarity, he (presumably the dreamer) can move the dream and sometimes can be in charge of the dream; however he can even clearly dream, but he is not [always] able to rule over the dream. Lucid dreams happen in general between sleep [stages] with rapid movement of the eyes (ROM in Latin).

**L4xord** · 03-09-2013 09:15 AM

Here's another interesting part:

Benefits of lucid dreams
...example: Many people fly in dreams. A lucid dreaming person is able to be in charge of his flying more skillfully. Lucid dreams permit a person to see fear (i.e a monster) without danger. Lucid dreams also diminish panic dreams (nightmares). People can exercise speeches. Dreams even permit human investigations of life (AKA: the pondering of questions like "what's the meaning of life?")