One of my friends, when I brought up the subject of lucid dreaming in a conversation, said that it is pseudoscience. Of course, I told him that I had experiencd lucid dreams before that were real. And yet, he claimed that there was no proof that lucid dreaming exists!

He later did some research on lucid dreaming and said that he thought that lucid dreams occur when you are already awake, and they are distinct from lucid dreams. In essence, he said that they were like daydreams or hypnagogic imagery... He also stated that he once had a dream where he knew that he was dreaming, and he then woke up. He claimed that he was probably awake when he knew that he was dreaming.

Obviously, we know that this is not true. But, taking the perspective of a normal person, lucid dreams do seem as though they cannot happen... How can we/I prove to people that lucid dreams do exist, and that they are not pseudoscience, like magic and extrasensory perception (although ESP may very well exist, but it cannot be proven)? I pointed out the tests carried out by "LaBague" or whoever the first scientist to study lucid dreaming was. I also said that statistics show that 1/2 of all American adults reported at least one lucid dream, but he said that many people do not know what lucid dreams are, so this survey may have been based on invalid data, etc.