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28 Shares Call it the Inception effect, but lucid dreaming has become somewhat of a phenomenon in recent years, with both the scientific community and everyday people becoming curious about how to achieve this state of altered consciousness. Usually, when we dream, we cannot tell the difference between dreams and reality, Nikola Djordjevic MD, a general practitioner and medical advisor at Whatasleep, told POPSUGAR. However, during a lucid dream, we re aware we re dreaming and often can control our dreams. It s estimated that half the population has experienced at least one lucid dream in their lifetime, and 11 percent report experiencing two or more lucid dreams every month. Research suggests that lucid dreaming is more prominent among some segments of the population, often linked with personality traits such as openness and self-reflectiveness. But how and when does lucid dreaming occur? Can you induce a lucid dream, and should you even want to? POPSUGAR asked th ....