As I walked downstairs I looked carefully at the stair-carpet, to see whether I could visualize better in dream than in waking life. I very cautiously walked downstairs – after calculating that I should be more sure to find someone in the pantry or kitchen than in a workroom, where I first thought of going. I remembered that my wife and children were away at the time (which was true), and I did not reason to the effect that they might be present in a dream, though absent from home in reality.I therefore wished to see one of the servants but I was afraid to ring the bell, lest the shock would wake me.

I wanted most of all to see and speak to somebody, to see whether they were like the real persons, and how they behaved. I made a strong effort to keep calm, knowing the risk of waking. This was a great delight to me, as giving the opportunity of experimentation. It struck me that this must be because I was dreaming.

Myers wrote:I was, I thought, standing in my study but I observed that the furniture had not its usual distinctness – that everything was blurred and somehow evaded a direct gaze.

But only in the last few decades have scientific researchers begun making a truly detailed and systematic study of lucid dreams.In1887, Frederic W.H.

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