• Question: why is it that when you have a dream and wake up and you try to go to sleep again to carry on the dream, you cant do it?

    Asked by to Andrew, Elaine, Emma, Michael, Nancy on 19 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Emma Reid answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Hi Aoife!
      I’m really not sure! It’s a pain though! I’ve woken up lots of times during a good dream and then couldn’t get back into it! It’s been shown that we can have some control over our dreams if we become aware that we are dreaming and this is called lucid dreaming. However, in a lucid dream the person doesn’t wake up. So I think that if you wake up during a dream then you lose the ability to have any control over it. Hope this helps! 🙂
      Emma

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