Many lay people stumbled onto lucidity in their dreams

Many lay people stumbled onto lucidity in their dreams over the centuries and there are examples of this happening all throughout history. But it was not until 1968 that the term lucid dreaming was coined by Celia Green, a philosopher and psychologist known for her extreme skepticism.- source:Lucid Dreaming – Waking Up to Alternate Realities , by Rebecca Turner from: evolution ezine