Pre-lucid dream  Pre-lucid dreaming can be described as the very beginning stages of inducing the lucid dreaming process. At this stage, the dreamer considers the question "Am I asleep and dreaming?" The dreamer may or may not come to the correct conclusion. Such experiences are liable to occur to people who are deliberately cultivating lucid dreams, but may also occur spontaneously to those with no prior intention to achieve lucidity in dreams. The term "lucid dreaming" was first coined by Dutch psychologist Frederik Willems Van Eeden who introduced the concept on the 22nd of April during a meeting held by the Society for Psychical Research in 1913, but this phenomenon has been present all throughout historical periods with some findings even dating back to the writings of Aristotle. Stephen LaBerge, American psychophysiologist, introduced his method for physiological investigation of lucid dreaming through eye signals in the 1980s and ever since, more modern research has been established on the studies of the lucid dreaming process. The term "pre-lucid dream" was first introduced by Celia Green in her 1968 book "Lucid Dreams". It is preferred to the term "near-lucid" dream on the following grounds:  However, the term "pre-lucid dream" seems to imply that a lucid dream will follow, which is not necessarily true. The term "near-lucid" helps convey the often humorous "so close, yet so far away" aspect of such dreams. Only in the past 30 years, lucid dreaming has become subject of scientific investigations, and the researchers most meritorious for this achievement are Paul Tholey and Stephen LaBerge, two entomologists who devoted their lives to researching lucid dreams. LaBerge developed a method known as "eye signals during lucid dreaming" which allowed him to physiologically investigate by comparing physiological processes with dream reports more precisely. With this method he would later go on to perform the first of many scientific research studies on lucid dreaming at Stanford University, which allowed for lucid dreaming and dreaming in general, to become an accessible/ acceptable subject for research. Throughout the years, LaBerge’s research would lead to the fabrication of techniques that would serve as a recipe for inducing lucid dreaming. One of which being the ‘mnemonic induction of lucid dreams’ technique. On the other hand, Tholey laid the epistemological basis for the research of lucid dreams. Tholey (1980, 1981) defined seven conditions of clarity that a dream must fulfill in order to be defined as a lucid dream.