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Journal of Attempts to Induce and Work with Lucid Dreams: Can You Kill Yourself while Lucid?
No full textFollowing is a narrative of my attempts to create lucid dreams and my experiments with the lucid dream state.I cite my journal notes I had kept during that time period
Flying Dreams and Lucidity: An Empirical Study of Their Relationship
No full textA common observation in the lucidity literature is an association between lucid dreams and flying dreams. In Van Eeden\u27s paper in which he introduced the term "lucid dream", he wrote, "Flying or floating in all forms of dreams... is generally an indication that lucid dreams are coming" (Van Eeden, 1913, p. 449). Patricia Garfield also noticed that flying dreams tended to occur in close proximity to lucid dreams and suggested that one can make use of this relationship to cultivate lucidity: "Induce dreams of flying and you are on your way to lucid dreams," she wrote (Garfield, 1974, p. 133). Celia Green (1968) reported that all her lucid dreamers refer to flying dreams, several of them describing that the flying prompted lucidity, while one intentionally used the occurrence of lucidity to initiate flight. Lucid dreams accounts in LaBerge\u27s (1985) and Sparrow\u27s (1976) books also seem to have a high rate of flying. The purpose of the present study was to determine in a general college population of dreamers: 1) what was the rate of lucid and flying dreams, 2) whether they occurred in some relationship to each other, 3) if they were related, whether the two elements occurred to the same dreamers, on the same nights, and/or within the same dreams, and 4) when they occurred in the same dream, which element preceded the other
Manifest Content Analysis of Sleep Laboratory Collected Lucid and Non-lucid Dreams
No full textI have addressed two questions over the last 10 years in my research program into lucid dreams: who is the individual who spontaneously experiences the lucid dream, that is to find out if there is something unique about that person, and what is the psychological experience of sleep consciousness which is unique beyond the awareness itself. I\u27m going to be talking about the latter today. Specifically, I\u27m going to be comparing sleep laboratory collected rapid eye movement lucid and non-lucid dreams
"Consciousness" During Sleep in a TM Practitioner: Heart Rate, Respiration, and Eye Movement
No full textReports of consciousness during dreaming or lucid dreaming have been verified by having the dreamer signal from the dream that he/she is dreaming with a prearranged set of distinctive lateral eye movements (LaBerge, 1985). This basic methodology has subsequently been replicated in other sleep laboratories. Relatedly, a continuation of consciousness from the waking state into the sleep state is claimed to be a key aspect of the experience of "Transcendental Consciousness", which is developed by the practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM; Banquet & Sailhan, 1974)
Comment on Strephon Kaplan William\u27s Article
No full textContrary to Strephon Kaplan William\u27s assertion, the definition of a lucid dream is simple and clear: it is a dream in which the dreamer is fully conscious while remaining asleep and dreaming at the same time. Why belittle this experience by calling it "only a dream?"The dreamer\u27s consciousness, no longer fettered by the delusion that it is experiencing an external reality, can open itself to a full, free communication with the intensities, challenges and pleasures of the dreaming Self. If Mr. Williams believes that this kind of involvement is not beneficial, I would ask him to produce some evidence -rather than simply waving vaguely at "hours of clinical experience."If his method does work, which I do not dispute, does that necessarily invalidate every other method
Commentary
No full textCommentary by Ernest Hartmann, Shattuck Hospital and John Antrobus, City University of New York
The Physics of Dream Consciousness: Is the Lucid Dream a Parallel Universe?
No full textI realize that we have only about twenty minutes to be together so I\u27m not going to overwhelm you with the number of years of research that I\u27ve been doing on the nature of consciousness itself and in particular the connection between physics and consciousness. I want to give you the bottom line first so you know where I\u27m coming from. I would like to suggest that all cognitive experience can be related to a model which has currently been circulating in psychological research called the Holographic Model, and I would like to strongly suggest that the mental hologram referred to is constructed in the brain and nervous system via a mechanism of quantum wave interference
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, there is ample experiential evidence to warrant a rethinking of this assumption. Imageless lucidity can and does occur at all levels of dreaming