Lucid meaning

Adjective: lucid

Pronunciation: (loo-sid)

Lucid meaning:

1. Transparently clear or easily understandable. Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, luculent, pellucid, perspicuous
2. Having a clear mind. Synonym: sane
3. Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner. Synonyms: coherent, logical
4. Transmitting light or able to be seen through with clarity. Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, pellucid, transparent, clear

Quotations: Marilyn French – Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.

Stephen LaBerge – Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

Mariolina Todde – He was lucid to the very end. He was always joking that he was going to live to 130. Whenever we had friends round everyone was made to drink to his health. Red wine, of course.

Edward Abbey – One final paragraph of advice, do not burn yourself out. Be as I am a reluctant enthusiast, a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards.

Mike Holmgren – I think he’s going to be fine. He had a concussion but there are grades of concussions. If I showed him a picture of a truck he would say it’s a truck and not a butterfly right now. He’s pretty lucid. They’ll do more tests on him but they seem to think he’s going to be fine for next week.

Antonin Artaud – It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behaviour.

Michel Leiris – If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows is essentially poetry.

Sample sentences:

1. Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
2. He’s lucid, he’s talking and he’s crabby. We know he’s fine.
3. At times he was very lucid and very aware. Other times it was like he would just clam up.
4. I think he’s going to be fine. He’s pretty lucid right now.
5. He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
6. All the physicians and authors in the world could not give a clear account of his madness. He is mad in patches, full of lucid intervals.
7. Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
8. He is fully lucid, in full control.
9. He’s lucid, he’s fully functional.
10. He is a lucid thinker.
11. The directions are lucid from the map.
12. We are enjoying in this lucid air.