She said the experience left her with a message she could not forget: “You weren’t supposed to ask that.” One commenter wrote that it was “called lucid dreaming” and claimed, “you’re not supposed to ask them questions. Lucid dreaming refers to a dream state in which a person becomes aware that they are dreaming while the dream continues. Research has explored lucid dreaming as a distinct state of consciousness during sleep. A 2021 study published in Current Biology examined whether researchers could communicate with people while they were experiencing lucid dreams.