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Lucid Dreaming: A Cinderella Story

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Laura Mercado Lori Logue English 1010 18 November 2014 Lucid Dreaming Cinderella is one of the many fairytale stories that portrays impossible and unrealistic actions taken by characters in the story. For instance, in Cinderella, Cinderella is upset due to the fact that she can’t attend the ball since she has nothing to wear, this all changes when her friends (consisting of mice and birds) come to the rescue and put together a beautiful dress for her. More into the story, Cinderella runs into another dilemma when she sees that she has no way of getting into the ball. This changes when the fairy Godmother comes along and fixes this problem with the wave of her magical stick. The fairy Godmother transforms the pumpkin into a coach, six mice …show more content…

Basically, the person dreaming is in full control of their dream and the outcome of it. With this being said, the person experiencing the dream can overcome any personal issues that they are currently facing or have been facing. Whether it is a long term issue or an issue that was presented that day, in their dream state they will answer their own questions so that the answer to their question pleases them. While dreaming, the person can experience their personal fetishes, whether it involves sex, achievements, personal desires, and childhood memories (Learn How to Control Your Dreams). A person can literally bring back any memory and relive it any night or anything that they choose to bring to life while they are …show more content…

Lucid dreaming can have somebody feeling great and amazing but it can have a negative consequence to this because this will cause people to become addicted to lucid dreaming or increase your chances of experiencing sleep paralysis. Lucid dreaming can serve as a person’s personal escape from reality, or it can be a nightmare for somebody who experiences sleep paralysis as a result of lucid dreaming. Either way, lucid dreaming is simply a phenomenon in which a person experiences at least one in their lifetime and can go either good or bad for

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