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The term lucid dreaming was coined by Dutch author and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in his 1913 article " A Study of Dreams ".

This paper was highly anecdotal and not embraced by the scientific community.

Some consider this a misnomer because it means much more than just " clear or vivid " dreaming.

The alternative term conscious dreaming avoids this confusion.

However, the term lucid was used by van Eeden in its sense of " having insight ", as in the phrase a lucid interval applied to someone in temporary remission from a psychosis, rather than as a reference to the perceptual quality of the experience, which may or may not be clear and vivid.