Why I Don’t Chase Lucid Dreams

But I might practice it with more intention

Jen Sonstein Maidenberg
7 min readOct 10, 2022

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Lucid dreaming. It’s a currently popular practice (especially among young adults) — along with reality shifting, witchcraft, and erotic fan fiction — that I wish had been accepted and popularized when I was a teen.

I’d have gleefully experimented with all those practices as a younger person. Life would have been…

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Jen Sonstein Maidenberg

Dreamwork practitioner, researcher, writer. Healthfully obsessed with dreams, time, music, Jewish mysticism, memory, & love. 💞 jenmaidenberg.com