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Dream Lucidity Induction And Control
No full textMy most important qualification for presenting this paper is an extensive direct experience of lucid dreams. I have had hundreds of lucid dreams in which I have done an experiment or made some observation. In sleep-laboratory work I have had 50 signal-verified lucid dreams. A primary concern of mine is with the philosophy and phenomenology of dreaming and altered states of consciousness and with what they can tell us abut normal consciousness
The Potential of Lucid Dreaming for Bodily Healing
No full textDreams are, after all, a form of mental image. To be sure, they are ones that occur during sleep, but images none-the-less. In fact, they are extraordinary mental images in that we completely believe they are real until we wake up and discover that we were only dreaming. Even when we add consciousness to sleep our research has shown that lucid dreams differ very little in their felt sense of reality from ordinary dreams. If anything, the felt sense of real in lucid dreams is enhanced. Given the explosion of research looking at the relationship of mental imagery to healing, the obvious place to start the exploration of the potential for lucid dreams to heal our bodies is with the mental image
The Multiplicity of Dreams
No full textWhat I’d like to do today is to try to place lucid dreaming withinthe context of overall dream studies and dream research--and within the multiplicity of dreams. I want to show how a cross-comparison of the different forms or types of dreaming might give clues to the cognitive processes that may be involved in all dream formation. And in that context I want to look especially at the place of lucid dreaming, namely the special relation of them to nightmares and so-called archetypal-mythological dreams. I will try to show, both descriptively and in terms of a small research study, that these three kinds of dreams seem to be the points where the process of dreaming is maximally intensified. Such maximal intensifications may help to show fundamental dimensions of all dreaming that get crystallized in these relatively infrequent special forms
The Serendipitous Facilitation of Lucid Dreaming Ability in a Single Subject
No full textMy usual reaction to first person accounts of dramatic and/or unusual occurrences during routine stimulus situations is to view them with many grains of salt, but never to entirely dismiss them as they, ultimately, are the basis of most hard scientific inquiry. The phenomenon to be described falls squarely within the anecdotal category, the lowest level of scientific evidence, and should be appraised only as such. A while ago, I suffered a very painful back injury which left me with an inability to sleep more than 2-3 hours per night. I knew that the amino acid tryptophan had been used successfully both to alleviate pain and to promote sleep (and as an antidepressant).On the advice of my neurologist, I used 7 grams -divided into two equal parts, as I would usually awaken within 3-4 hours after administering the first dose. While this is a large dose, it is not as high as some therapists recommend for depression.(The best popular treatment of the subject I have encountered is Slagel, P.,M.D., The Way Up From Down, 1986, Random House). Tryptophan in that amount was most effective in promoting sound sleep. One very prominent effect, though, was that dreaming became very erratic or altogether nonexistent " -an effect not at variance, though not fully explained, by the literature. I reasoned that my lucid dreaming work would consequently have to be placed on the back burner for a time
Letter from Linda L. Magallon
No full textIt saddens me to realize that both Jayne Gackenbach and Scott Sparrow are operating out a fear mode. The warnings from tradition can be a heavy burden to bear and too often they become self-fulfilling prophesies, especially if one concentrates on the negative and ignores the positive that surrounds us. How different it would be if, instead of flying into a panic in the face of overwhelming experiences of the psyche and throwing out deadly terms like "psychotic break" and "schizophrenia", dreamworkers would instead act as a resource and support system for transpersonal experiences? They\u27d be cheering on dreamers with "Wow, what a wonderful opportunity and great gift you have!" "What neat adventures you can look forward to!" takes the onus off the current experience
An Historical View of “Dreams and the Ways to Direct Them; Practical Observations” by Marie-Jean-Leoa Lecog, le Marquis d’Hervey-Saint-Denys
No full textIn 1867, Librairie d’Amyot at Paris published a book entitled Les Rêves a 1es Moyens de les Diriger; Observations pratiques (1) ( transl.: Dreams and the Ways to Direct Them; Practical Observations.) Henceforth we will refer to it as Les Rêves. Originally the work appeared anonymously but eventually it authorship was attributed to the famous French scientist, le Marquis d’Hervey-Saint-Denys. With its publication, for the first time in Western history, a detailed personal report on lucid dreaming over a period of 32 year period was available. Among other things, St. Denys describes his interest in dreams from the age of thirteen, how he develops lucidity in them, and how he partially masters the direction of his dreams. Almost every book on lucid dreams refers to St. Denys work (e.g. Patricia Garfield (2), Celia Green (3), and Stephen LaBerge (4) & (5)). Although we may consider the author of Les Rêves the father of modem lucid dream research, very little information about the book or its author are available. Thus the purpose of this article is to present new information as a result of a search for the original publication of Les Rêves
A Validation of Lucid Dreaming in School Age Children
No full textI’d like to begin by sharing a dream that I had fairly frequently when I was a child, between the ages of 6 and 12. 1 was lucid. I would fly, and the first place that I would choose to go, was the ocean. I would fly sometimes during the night and see the ocean glistening below me, and sometimes during the day where I would see my reflection, but the place that I went was always the same. It was a place called Bali. I often wondered what that could mean. I don’t remember consciously recognizing whereBaliwasas a place in the world, but that is where I would go, and that’s where I would land
East Meets West, Buddhism Meets Christianity: The Lucid Dream as a Path for Union
No full textWhen I think about lucid dreaming I think about a vast universe, so vast that everything we say here today has to be qualified. In particular, I think about Christopher Columbus and regard his epic voyage as a perfect metaphor for what we are attempting to do in exploring the lucid dream state. When Columbus discovered a new world (new to Europeans) there were many ramifications of his discovery. I have always been intrigued by the maps that appear in our history books, maps of the new world that originated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, attempts on the part of those early cartographers to begin to describe and delineate what the explorers were discovering. Some of those early maps had some degree of accuracy and some of them were intriguingly misshapen. I think it is important for us to keep this metaphor in mind as we approach the vast spectrum of lucid dreaming which we are attempting to explore