ALL ABOUT LUCID DREAMS Last week, I came across a captivating article on lucid dreaming in the January 2025 issue of Scientific American (“Engineering Our Dreams” by Michelle Carr, pp. 48–51). Lucid dreaming is a state in which the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming while still within the dream. Michelle Carr, author of the article, is Director of the Dream Engineering Lab at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine in Montreal Canada. In her “dream laboratory” she primes sleepers to have lucid dreams by waking them and then prompting them as they fall back asleep. In...