A wake-initiated lucid dream occurs when the dreamer goes from a normal waking state directly into a dream state, with no apparent lapse in consciousness.

However, while this may suggest that perceived OBEs are a type of lucid dream which takes place in a dream environment that mimics the actual environment of the dreamer, this falls short of supporting the idea that some conscious form of the dreamer actually leaves the body and perceives their external environment while still in a sleeping state.

In this state the dreamer may often ( but not always ) have some degree of control over their own actions within the dream or even the characters and the environment of the dream.

Once inside a lucid dream, the dreamer either shifts the subject matter of the dream in an OBE direction or banishes the dream imagery completely, in doing so gaining access to the underlying state of sleep paralysis ideal for visualization of separation from the body.

They view dreams as messages from subconscious mind informing the dreamer of how the conscious waking state has been used to create.

That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he preached rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery ; he has tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow.

In a lucid dream, the dreamer may be able to exert some degree of control over their participation within the dream or be able to manipulate their imaginary experiences in the dream environment.

Once this area is activated and the recognition of dreaming occurs, the dreamer must be cautious to let the dream continue but be conscious enough to remember that it is a dream.

The dreamer may, therefore, be asked to imagine being an object in the dream and to describe it, in order to bring into awareness the characteristics of the object that correspond with the dreamer's personality.

* Hartmann says dreams may function like psychotherapy, by " making connections in a safe place " and allowing the dreamer to integrate thoughts that may be dissociated during waking life.

Brandt was said to be more a dreamer than a manager and was personally haunted by depression.

Although an integral part of the dreamer's psyche, these manifestations were largely autonomous and were perceived by the dreamer to be external personages.

For the dreaming wildebeest, it may be a rich pasture over the hill ; for the human dreamer it may be splitting the atom.

While many, if not all, agree that there is at least some sense in which the book can be said to be a " dream ", few agree on who the possible dreamer of such a dream might be.

Joseph Campbell, in A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, also believed Earwicker to be the dreamer, but considered the narrative to be the observances of, and a running commentary by, an anonymous pedant on Earwicker's dream in progress, who would interrupt the flow with his own digressions.

Clive Hart argues that " hatever our conclusions about the identity of the dreamer, and no matter how many varied caricatures of him we may find projected into the dream, it is clear that he must always be considered as essentially external to the book, and should be left there.

Sleepwalking was initially thought to be a dreamer acting out a dream.

British diplomat Baurne, who thought Richard to be a plotter, separately claimed in his own report that Kang was a dreamer who had fallen for Richard's convincing arguments.

Even if someone who appears to be a prophet can perform supernatural acts or signs, no prophet or dreamer can contradict the laws already stated in the Bible.

Although Moffat was looked at the time as a vain dreamer, he would later be looked at by many as ahead of his time.

Lucas is a man who lives among the luxuries for the success of Leonardo Ferrer, his father, and the influence of exporting firms, a dreamer who longs to be a musician, while his family tries to persuade him to become interested in their business.

" If left means to be against the existing social order, and right in favor, then social-democracy is without doubt a left current ... A social democrat is before anything someone who has critical sense — who realizes the injustices of society and has no fear to oppose them, even at the risk of being taken as a subversive or a dreamer.

Now a young woman, Kayley is still much of a dreamer and still wishes to be a knight, much against her mother Julianna's wishes.

" But my father thought I was a dreamer, I wasn't gonna amount to anything.

By placing it among the poetic memories formed from my wanderings in Abruzzi, I wanted to make the viola a kind of melancholy dreamer in the manner of Byron's Childe-Harold.

Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,

Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,

By placing it among the poetic memories formed from my wanderings in the Abruzzi, I wanted to make the viola a kind of melancholy dreamer in the manner of Byron ’ s Childe-Harold.

The room the dreamer falsely awakens in is often similar to the room he / she fell asleep in.

It is argued that, once a dreamer has experienced a threat in a dream ( either to self or a family member ), his / her ability to confront and overcome a real life threat is then enhanced, so that such dreams, in both humans or animals, are an aid to survival.

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

The Piscean / Arian individual is thought to be assertive, dominant, shy, sensitive, emotional, artistic, talented, heplful, dependent, intuitive, unique, ambivert, practical, doer, dreamer, nurturing, sensual, clean-minded, traditional, a leader, active, organized, idealistic, broad-minded, brave, thoughtful, playful, devoted, flirtatious, idealistic, quiet, proud, loyal, athletic, romantic, compassionate, sympathetic, often funny, flamboyant, caring, and imaginative.

The Crede conflates Piers ( here, " Peres ") with the author / dreamer of Piers Plowman, thus collapsing that poem's many voices into a single, collective voice of the ideal community.

Five years later, Dr. Shiragami is now a haunted dreamer, who has lately turned most of his attention to the study of the psychic energy of roses.

" The image of himself that Coleridge provides is of a dreamer who reads works of lore and not as an opium addict.

The poet of the Preface is a dreamer who must write and the poet of the poem is a vocal individual, but both are poets who lose inspiration.

Some historians see Władysław as a dreamer who could not stick to one policy, and upon running into first difficulties, ditched it and looked for another opportunity.

The contemporaries of Tchaikovsky recalled the composer taking great interest in the life story of Bavarian King Ludwig II, whose tragic life had supposedly been marked by the sign of Swan and who — either consciously or not — was chosen as the prototype of the dreamer Prince Siegfried.

Oliver, who has been abroad and has only recently arrived in Dinwiddie, is a dreamer and an intellectual.

A dreamer who is usually lost in his fantasies and imagination, and also deeply scared of school, even though he's the brightest and oldest member of the gang.

Each member was easily recognizable: Gérard Rinaldi was the straight good-looking one, with the crooner voice, Jean Sarrus was the small one with the moustache and funny mimics, Gérard Filipelli was the tall blonde dreamer who often found himself accidentally bare-assed in their films, Luis Rego was the sarcastic Portuguese one and Jean-Guy Fechner was the tall one a big bushy beard.

Rodney's personality was based on the experiences of series creator John Sullivan, who also had an older sibling and, like Rodney, claimed to have been a dreamer and an idealist in his youth.

He is the only dreamer who has gone to the outermost void " where no dreams reach " that is the court of Azathoth and survived with both life and sanity intact.

Guy is an idle, rich dreamer whose relationship with his " frightening wife " is sexless after the birth of their uncontrollable son, Marmaduke, who seems to have a violent Oedipal complex.

We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream.

Fuchsia is a dreamer and a romantic, who escapes the dull pace of life in Gormenghast by reading fantasy tales.