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Utilization of Awake Dreams for Therapeutic Intervention
No full textAs a nurse-psychotherapist working in outpatient psychiatry office I have been able to view the process of awake dreaming and harness it\u27s therapeutic potential. I use three biofeedback procedures, temperature training, voluntary muscle training and palm sweat reduction to teach Autogenic Therapy (Schultz & Luthe, 1969). The majority of my patients have various types of atypical depressions (Kernberg, 1984). The self-hypnotic aspect of the autogenic phrases combine with the biofeedback skills to allow the patient to experience a new psychophysiological state of "low" arousal. This different state, the "mezzanine of the mind" connects the patients to their emotional life in a markedly different way. A fascinating paradox of this newly mastered "deep relaxation" can be the spontaneous intrusion of symbolic hallucinatory phenomena classified by W. Luthe as Ideational Autogenic Discharges. However, the autogenicdischarges, or biofeedback side effects, can occur in any organ systems and as a physical discharge. Another aspect of these side effects is that with frequent regularity there occurs a physical manifestation accompanying the most highly charged visual symbolism. These physical disturbances can range from mildly annoying to frightening and/or painful. Luthe had considered all these ideational and physical phenomena or autogenic discharges to indicate an unhappy brain needing to unload (personal communication from Luthe, 1969)
Kenneth Kelzer\u27s "Sun and Shadow": A New Classic on Lucid Dreaming
No full textMany publishers send me galley proofs of books they are about to release in the hope that I will read them and say something about the book that they can use in promotion. This is one of the areas of regret in my life, because so many of these books look like they will be of great interest to me and I want to read the galleys: but I seldom have time. There is still a set of proofs on my desk of a forthcoming book by Robin Robertson, for example, that I know I will be fascinated by, yet I haven\u27t been able to look at them at all. I miss too much
Letter from the Editor
No full textIt is with great pride that we bring you this issue of Lucidity Letter. Not only will you find the proceedings of the second Lucidity Symposium, which was held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Dreams, but also several research articles, book reviews, and letters to the editor. Further the bibliographic updates number 30 citations. Clearly lucid dreaming is emerging as a field of inquiry in its own right
Dream Lucidity and Dream Witnessing: A Developmental Model Based on the Practice of Transcendental Meditation
No full textI will briefly review what we said yesterday at the symposium on lucid dreaming during the ASD meeting. Harry Hunt has been doing research on meditation and its relationship to lucidity. Jayne Gackenbach and I began a collaboration, at MIU and UNI in Iowa, to look at the same question. We have thousands of advanced meditators practicing the TM program at MIU in the Advanced TM Sidhi Program. Lucid dreaming, as it’s typically described, is, in my opinion, in a direction which has been classically described for thousands of years in various Eastern traditions, especially the Vedic tradition of India, as something called ‘Witnessing’
Potential Effects of Lucid Dreaming on Immunocompetence
No full textThere have been anecdotes and suggestions that lucid dreaming might be of some value for healing. Based on experiments conducted in the past showing a very strong correspondence between tasks performed in the dream state and effects on the brain and to a lesser extent the body, the suggestion that specific lucid dreams could facilitate the healing processes of the brain has been made. Dr. Andrew Brylowski has made a first pioneering step in developing a procedure for studying what may happen to the immune system during a lucid dream
Interview With Physicist, Fred Alan Wolf, on the Physics of Lucid Dreaming
No full textFred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. is a theoretical physicist, writer and lecturer who is currently a visiting professor at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author of a number of books explaining the new physics including The Body Quantum, Star Wave, Space, Time and Beyond (with Bob Tobem), and Taking the Quantum Leap, for which he won the American Book Award in 1982 for original science writing. He and his wife Judith live in San Diego, CA. His research work focuses on using ideas and models from quantum physic for psychology. Wolf recently published an article in Integrative Psychiatry addressing these issues.
Lucidity as a Meditative State
No full textWhat I\u27d like to talk about this afternoon are some relations between lucid dreaming, meditation and what I\u27ll be calling archetypical forms of dream experience. This is based on a study done with Barbara McLeod on lucid dreams in long term meditators, first published as an abstract in a Lucidity Letter in 1984
Varieties of Experience from Light Induced Lucid Dreams
No full textReport on two content analysis studies: one on a single subject, and one on a larger group recorded in the laboratory
Induction of Lucid Dreaming by Luminous Stimulation
No full textLucid dreaming, is a learnable, but difficult, skill (LaBerge, 1980). Consequently, we have sought methods for helping dreamers to realize that they are dreaming by means of external cues applied during REM sleep, which if incorporated into dreams, can remind dreamers that they are dreaming. We have tested a variety of stimuli, including tape recordings of the phrase "This is a dream", (LaBerge, Owens, Nagel & Dement, 1981), musical tones (Kueny, 1985), conditioned tactile stimuli (Rich, 1985), olfactory stimuli (LaBerge, Brylowski, & Levitan, 1985) and light. Here we report on laboratory experiments using light as a stimulus for inducing lucid dreams. The light stimuli were flashing extra bright red light emitting diodes mounted in a pair of goggles, applied for varying lengths of time either by a technician or a computer while the subject was in REM sleep