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Les filles ont souvent fait des rêves lucides.

Les filles ont souvent fait des rêves lucides.
The girls often had lucid dreams.
From Lesson 273:Adverb placement in compound tenses·French

Questions & Answers about Les filles ont souvent fait des rêves lucides.

Why is souvent placed between ont and fait?
In French compound tenses like the passé composé, short and common adverbs like souvent (often), bien (well), or déjà (already) are placed directly between the auxiliary verb (ont) and the past participle (fait).
Why does the sentence use fait instead of a form of avoir for "had"?
In French, you don't "have" a dream, you "make" one. The set expression is faire un rêve. Because of this, the passé composé uses the past participle of faire, which is fait, rather than the past participle of avoir (eu).
Why does the adjective lucides come after rêves?
Unlike in English, most descriptive adjectives in French are placed immediately after the noun they describe. It also has an "s" added to the end to agree with the plural noun rêves.
Why do we use des here instead of les?
des is the plural indefinite article, acting as the plural form of un or une. It is used here because the sentence refers to an unspecified amount of "some" lucid dreams, whereas les would refer to specific dreams or to lucid dreams in a general sense.

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