Columns/Editorials
November 10, 2025

Feed your head: Lucid dreams and angry characters

By Kyle Meddles 

Last week I had my first lucid dream and told one of the characters in it that they were not real.

I have come to find out that was a mistake.

As defined by the National Library of Medicine, lucid dreaming refers to “the phenomenon of becoming aware of the fact that one is dreaming during ongoing sl...

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