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Comment author: occlude 02 October 2011 06:29:04AM 4 points [-]

Have you experimented with sleep posture? A cursory search turned up a 2000 study showing that sleeping in a supine position might contribute to lucid dreams. Some of the subjects suffered from hypnopompic sleep paralysis:

Dahmen N; Kasten M. REM-associated hallucinations and sleep paralysis are dependent on body posture. Journal Of Neurology, 2001 May; Vol. 248 (5), pp. 423-4

Comment author: wedrifid 02 October 2011 08:59:30AM 4 points [-]

Dahmen N; Kasten M. REM-associated hallucinations

Is that a sciency way of saying 'dreams'?