Dreams have held an incredible amount of cultural significance since the beginning of time. For some cultures, dreams may serve as a kind of portal into the spiritual world. For other cultures, it serves as helpful predictions and knowledge that can be used in the future. Similarly, lucid dreaming is not precisely an unfamiliar phenomenon. Studies show that Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, was the first to share his lucid dreaming experiences. At the same time, Tibetan traditions have also practiced lucid dreaming as a form of meditation for over 12,000 years. Though the phenomenon that is lucid dreaming has existed for a long time now, scientists have only recently tried to study lucid dreaming formally. Objective scientific methods have been utilized in studying this experience. Though not much research has been done surrounding lucid dreaming, the few that exist can prove that there is something scientific about the whole process. Almost everyone knows about the existence of lucid dreaming, and yet not a lot know what it is all about.

Lucid dreaming is not exactly a common experience for most people. There are around 23% of individuals who claim that they have only one lucid dream per month. Though at least half of all people would be more likely to have one lucid dream during their entire lifetime, frequent lucid dreaming is only experienced by a handful of people. Despite these rare occurrences, more people aim to practice lucid dreaming to gain the benefits that it comes with.