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Letter from Jayne Gackenbach, Past Lucidity Letter Editor
No full textIt is with great pleasure that I introduce this 10th year commemorative issue of Lucidity Letter. Although I did not edit it, I did edit it! This issue is made up solely of articles selected from the nine volumes for which I was Senior Editor. These were chosen by Stephen LaBerge, Harry Hunt and myself in conjunction with our new Senior Editor, Elinor Gebremedhin
Conversation Between Stephen LaBerge and Paul Tholey in July of 1989
No full textThis interview took place at the 1989 Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) conference in London. LaBerge and Tholey were already familiar with each other’s work, but met for the first time in person at this conference. Their conversations focused on the concept of the consciousness of dream characters and Tholey’s "mirror technique" for inducing OBEs. We enter as they are discussing what a polygraph record would show if dream figures other than the dream ego were capable of signaling
Awake in the Dark: Imageless Lucid Dreaming
No full textMost dream research, interpretation methodology and reports of dreaming phenomena presuppose that a dream consists of visual impressions. Even the term LUCIDITY evokes the vividness and clarity of dream imagery. Yet, imageless lucidity can and does occur at all levels of dreaming. As the dreamer drifts into dreaming through lucid hypnagogia, watching the imagery flicker and metamorphose, she or he may encounter a "blank" period just before the dream scene appears. In this state, there is no sensation but rather the general impression that the dream is "taking a breath" before forming a landscape in the dreamer’s mind
Lucid Dreams And OBEs
No full textI was recently at a conference on vision—real vision that is, not the vision of mystics or lucid dreamers. There, over a few litres of Bulgarian beer, I got talking about lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). "But why are they interesting?" asked one of the visual scientists. I began muttering about how nice they are; how difficult to induce; how exhilarating if you succeed; about the clarity of consciousness. . . . The trouble I had answering the question made me realise how unclear is my thinking about lucid dreams and OBEs. So what I would like to do today is to try answer that man’s question more effectively. Lucid dream research will be of interest to other scientists only if we can develop better theories, better integration with the rest of psychology and better experiments to test those theories. So why are lucid dreams and OBEs interesting
Near Death, Near Dream
No full textI will describe here an experience of mine which was in all its characteristics a neardeath experience (NDE) except that ultimately there was no evidence that I had been near death, and which, except for my believing I had died, was similar to a number of earlier experiences of mine which had always occurred only in context of lucid dreams, that is dreams in which I know I am dreaming. I have been a frequent lucid dreamer since 1976 and have experienced many "out-ofbody" (OBEs) both in the context of lucid dreams and between dreaming and awakening, though never with verification that I had left the body. Before this "NDE," if I may call it such, I had experienced a number of times a brilliant light in which I felt God was present. This has always been in continuity from ordinary lucid dreaming, and has occasionally grown out of an experience of darkness (see Gillespie, 1985)
Physiological Mechanisms of Lucid Dreaming
No full textFor those of you here who aren’t familiar with the general approach we have been using in our research on lucid dreaming I will briefly describe it. We’ve been having talented lucid dreamers, like Beverly Kedzierski, enter the dream state on a particular mission. Before they go to sleep we arrange that once they realize they are dreaming they will make an eye movement signal by moving their eyes left, right, left, right
Patricia Garfield’s Pathway to Ecstasy Re-Released: An Interview
No full textHere, Jayne Gackenbach interviews Patricia Garfield about her recently re-released book, Pathway To Ecstasy, originally published right after herbest-selling Creative Dreaming
Healing Through Lucid Dreaming
No full textAccording to Jaffe and Bresler (1980), "Mental imagery mobilizes the latent, inner powers of the person, which have immense potential to aid in the promotion of health." I believe this statement applies even more to lucid dreaming, a state that typically possesses the most vivid imagery possible. In the following, we will survey potential applications of lucid dreaming to healing
Applications of Lucid Dreaming in Sports
No full textThe following article has above all a practical orientation. The various possibilities for the application of lucid dreaming in sports training are presented and briefly illustrated. These theses are based on findings from experiments with experienced lucid dreamers who were instructed to carry out various routine and sport-related actions while lucid-dreaming, with the object of observing the effects on both dreaming and waking states (Tholey, 1981a). Additionally, I report here on numerous spontaneous accounts of athletes who have mastered lucid dreaming, as well as my own years of experience as a lucid dreamer and as an active competitor in different types of sports
Letter from Elinor Gebremedhin, New Lucidity Editor
No full textYou, the reader, already know that the publication you have in your hands right now is not the Lucidity Letter you\u27ve been used to for the last few years. This special issue commemorating the first ten years of Lucidity Letter is organized more like a full length book than a periodical; the name has been changed from Lucidity Letter to Lucidity; the overall format of the cover design is different and there have been some changes in typesetting/page format as well. The most striking change is the change in Senior Editor, since this publication has been nurtured entirely by Jayne Gackenbach ever since she founded it ten years ago