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Problems at Refining the "Lucid" Label: Shooting at a Moving Target
No full textIn 1976, when I began dreaming dreams in which I became "conscious" without waking up,I recognized that something new was going on, and wanted to know what it was called. A psychologist patiently explained to me that it was impossible that I had become conscious while I was asleep, because one is unconscious while asleep, by definition. In the spring of 1983, after seven years and many bookstores, I was relieved to finally encounter a less controversial word, "lucid", in Charles Tart\u27s book Altered States of Consciousness. Later the same year I found Scott Sparrow\u27s book on Lucid Dreaming--Dawning Of The Clear Light, which also gave me labels for prelucid and false awakening dreams, as well a number of new perspectives. In the interim, however, I continued to evolve independently, and developed a number of my own ideas
Is an OBE a Dream, or are Dreams just OBE\u27s?
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to personal experiences review some studies and some concerning dreams and out-of body experiences
EEG and Other Physiological Findings
No full textThe basic question we had in mind was, "What is happening in the brain when people become lucid?" We have had some ideas about this for many years. Earlier work that we had done indicated that lucid dreams are initiated during periods of cerebral (and autonomic) activation. It can be seen in a typical polygraph example of a lucid dream initiation that on the EOG channel, just a few seconds before the eye signal there is a striking suppression of finger pulse amplitude. It is like a switch is suddenly turned on--sympathetic activation. Likewise, you see a change in the respiration pattern; it changes from a regular rhythm and high amplitude to irregular and low amplitude with an increased rate. Also the top EEG channel will show a large skin potential artifact at the onset of lucidity. All of this indicates that when lucid dreams are initiated there is an activation of the brain. However all examples of the same process may not be identical. For instance the change in respiration may not be as clear
Lucid Dreams or Resolution Dreams for Healing?
No full textI would like to start my summary of the issues with a fundamental question: do you have to be lucid to have a lucid dream? Do you in fact have to wake up in the dream and know you are dreaming in order to have a dream which has been characterized by lucid dream researchers as a lucid dream? Some other characterizations of dream lucidity include greater vividness of imagery (Garfield, 1974), auditory phenomena, fewer dreams characters and more cognition (Gackenbach, 1986), and potential facilitation of health (LaBerge, 1986).In dealing with the question of the relation of dreams to healing we first have to clarify the issues around lucid dreaming per se. The Jungian-Senoi methodology (Williams, 1980) is a clinical approach rather than a research approach. As such we are limited in our ability to report scientific findings as in those coming from a sleep laboratory, but we do have thousands of hours of dreamwork using an organized approach to working with dreams and dreaming via our methodology. From this base we can address certain issues, if not results
Ken Wilber, Jack Engler and Daniel P. Brown (Editors) "Transformations of Consciousness: Conventional and Contemplative Perspectives on Development"
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Dream Content Within the Partially Lucid REM Period: A Single Subject Content Analysis
No full textDespite ten years of increasing research attention to lucid dreaming, quantitative content analysis is almost nonexistent. Most research describing their content has dealt almost exclusively with those qualities of the dreamer\u27s consciousness that by definition serve to differentiate lucid dreams from their non-lucid counterparts. But aside from obvious differences in self-awareness and cognitive ability, in what ways do lucid and non-lucid dreams differ? While discussing the relevance of findings on lucid dreaming to dreaming in general, Foulkes asked: When you change ordinary dreaming by adding a self which intends and reflects, what else changes alongside this change? This is one way of evaluating the role played by the absence of self [-awareness] in ordinary dreaming, and is perhaps the point at which lucid dreaming data could be most relevant to ordinary dream psychology. However, at present there seems to be no systematic data comparing the REM-monitored lucid versus non-lucid dreams of the same dreamer