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"A dream is a wish your heart makes" is from Walt Disney, and from Cinderella.

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That is Cinderella's Castle.

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It's not true, of course; a dream is a random firing of neurons that your brain is trying to interpret,

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but it's a lovely saying.

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And there are people called oneironauts

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—that's the technical term they've come up with—who are dream explorers,

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people who do lucid dreaming.

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The idea that you can, sort of "wake up" in your dream,

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be aware that you're dreaming, and then control whatever you want:

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fly, talk to people, beat fears, whatever you want to do.

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Now, I've tried to do this in the past; it's not been terribly successful for me,

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but one of the things I did learn is something that you might not know, which is how to tell if you're dreaming.

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There's a check you can start doing a couple of times a day,

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that is, apparently, quite a good trick to learning to lucid dream.

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And the simple test is this: read something.

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Read anything, the words on a sign, a newspaper, whatever you want.

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Not only will they not make sense, but they will change every time you look away and look back at them.

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They'll just be whatever words that your brain happens to come up with,

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from everything in the dictionary, utter nonsense.

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Whatever your brain happens to come up with, whatever neurons in the language centres of your brain happen to fire,

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those'll be the words you read.

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So, if that happens, look down at the thing in front of you right now,

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I mean, I'd imagine that computers don't work in dreams, either, and that's another good sign.

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So either you're dreaming, or you're running Windows.

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But, basically, look for words. See if they change,

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and if they do, well... don't try and wake up,

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try and have a bit of fun first.

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That's lucid dreaming and that is something you might not have known.

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I think I found Donald Duck(!)

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