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A Comparative Study of Nightmares, Lucid Dreams, and Archetypal Dreams Significance to the Dreamer\u27s Life
No full textThis study explores when and how people perceive their dreams as significant and creative in their lives by focusing on a comparison of nightmares, lucid dreams and archetypal dreams. The selection of these three types of dream experiences was based on Hunts\u27s theory of intensified dream forms, which is detailed in his Multiplicity Of Dreams (1988). He proposed that cognitive theories of how dreams are formed, specifically the linguistic-mnemonic models as proposed by Freud (1900/1955) and more recently Foulkes (1985), do not take into account the evidence of creative-imaginative elements in the formation of dreams (Globus, 1987). Hunt\u27s (1989) research indicated that while the mnemonic model adequately accounts for "ordinary dreams", it does not sufficiently explain the formation of bizarre imagery which is remote from the memories of everyday experience. These bizarre images are particularly found in nightmares, lucid dreams and archetypal dreams. He sees these types of dreams as being formed from a more imaginative-creative capacity of the dreaming mind, and as being characterized by a heightened visual, kinesthetic and emotional experience which cannot be explained in terms of nearby memory sources
PANEL DISCUSSION: IS LUCID DREAMING RELATED TO HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS?
No full textThis panel discussion took place at the July 1990 meeting of the Lucidity Association Conference in Chicago
Freud, Van Eeden and Lucid Dreaming
No full textThere has not been a complete discussion of the biography of Fredrik van Eeden, who is credited with coining the phrase "lucid dream" and publishing the first serious research into these dreams. Writers on lucid dreaming have not addressed some very basic questions about the development of the concept of lucid dreaming in the context of the development of psychoanalysis. Most descriptions of that historical period in the history of lucid dreaming have been limited to what was presented in a 1913 paper by Fredrik van Eeden. The existing literature does not provide many details about who van Eeden was or why he appears to have written so little on this topic.
This paper presents two new historical perspectives. It offers 1.) a biographical sketch of van Eeden and his relationship to Freud and the psychoanalytic movement, and 2.) a previously unpublished letter from Freud to van Eeden, outlining what would appear to be Freud\u27s opinion about and attitude toward lucid dreaming
Patricia Garfield\u27s "Pathway to Ecstasy" Re-Released: An Interview
No full textThis interview with Patricia Garfield by Jayne Gackenbach concerns her recently re-released book, Pathway To Ecstasy. This book was originally published right after her best selling Creative Dreaming
"The Multiplicity of Dreams. Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness", By Harry T. Hunt, New Haven And London: Yale University Press, 1989.
No full textNeuropsychological findings suggest that on the cortical level, apes are able to "translate" visual perceptions into tactile or kinaesthetic patterns, and vice versa, without interference of the reinforcement mechanisms located in the brain stem. On the other hand, they make less creative use of auditory perceptions, so that their vocal signals remain stereotyped. In The Multiplicity of DreamsHarry T. Hunt, psychology professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, postulates that in contrast with other primates, the consciousness of humans is based on "translations" including not only visual, tactile and kinaesthetic, but auditory perceptions as well. That is, for us to perceive, we must break down the patterns of these modalities with fundamentally different and virtually incompatible sensory systems and approach the aspects of a situation, not one after the other like a computer, but simultaneously on different levels of articulation, which constantly interact to form novel connections. The reciprocal reorganization and rearrangement among the perceptual patterns of the separate senses is the core of symbolic intelligence; the "synaesthetic" tying together of all these simultaneously occurring processes is consciousness
Lucid Living, Lucid Dreaming
No full textWhen I teach classes on lucid dreaming, I always ask students why do they want to become lucid in their dreams? The response varies from wanting to have an exciting dream life to wanting to control their dreams. The next question I ask is whether they are lucid in their waking life? The response is usually laughter followed by silence
The Value of Spiritual Experiences in Lucid Dreams
No full textIn the June, 1988 issue of Lucidity LetterI described the induction of "ecstatic" lucid dreams (Hewitt, 1988). I would like to say more about such experiences, as well as to briefly address the recent controversy regarding the issue of the "risks" of lucid dreaming
Higher States of Consciousness Conference Report
No full textNobel laureate and religious leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, recently commented to a well known meditation researcher that, "your way of identifying the physiological impact of spiritual forces has done a thousand times more to bring the religions of the world together than all of the philosophers." It is in this spirit that the Lucidity Association sponsored a conference on the science and theory of Higher States of Consciousness
Three Ecstatic Dreams
No full textIn our last issue, we encouraged our readers to submit copies of dreams which included ecstatic experiences or experiences of the divine. These did not have to be in the context of a formal paper, although some of our readers chose to do that. All three of the following dreams submitted by one of our readers, show the connection between lucid dreaming and the ecstatic White light" experience that G. Scott Sparrow sees as one of the highest potentials of the lucid dreaming platform. Interestingly, the dreamer only experiences the divine as a particularized figure in one of the dreams, and he comes away feeling "ill at ease," . . . but we\u27re not going to tell you why because that would spoil your own enjoyment of this whimsical account of a human being confronted by the figure of a God with a surprising messag
Lucidity Letter Readers Survey Results
No full textForty-three of the 280 readers of the December 1989 issue of Lucidity Letter (LL) completed and returned a readers survey by June 17, 1990. There were five general types of questions beginning with the amount of the last two issues read and followed by three questions dealing with overall satisfaction. Six questions were then asked about specific content items for LL. Respondents were also asked how frequently they would like to see it come out under several conditions. Finally, general comments were solicited