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Alpha and Dream Lucidity
No full textOf the three of us doing this work, Bob Ogilvie, Paul Tyson, and myself, I am the non-physiologist. But I am here and they’re not, so I will try and give you an idea of our work over the past few years and where we think it’s going, without being able to go into perhaps some of its more technical points
Beyond Lucidity - A Personal Report
No full textIn the December 1985 issue of Lucidity Letter my husband John Wren-Lewis described a radical and continuing change of consciousness following an near-death experience (NDE) which gave him a new perspective for understanding dream-processes, including lucid dreaming. In the same issue Charles Tart, Harry Hunt, George Gillespie and Michael Grosso used John\u27s observations as a basis for discussing a number of issues which have been prominent in Lucidity Letter since its inception, such as the range of meanings which can be attached to the term \u27lucidity\u27, and possible relationships between lucid dreaming and meditation. My purpose in writing this present note is to describe a very unusual sleep-experience of my own in October 1985 (shortly after John\u27s article had been sent off but before I knew of the other comments) which casts new light on some of these issues
Physiological Mechanisms of Lucid Dreamin
No full textFor those of you here who aren’t familiar with the general approach we have been using in our research on lucid dreaming I will briefly describe it. We’ve been having talented lucid dreamers, like Beverly Kedzierski, enter the dream state on a particular mission. Before they go to sleep we arrange that once they realize they are dreaming they will make an eye movement signal by moving their eyes left, right, left, right
Out-of-Body Epistemology
No full textOne of the most boring questions to be asked in the context of out-of-body-experiences (OBE) and lucid dreams (LD) is: "Are these experiences real?"This question is boring, because it is undecidable and therefore meaningless from a scientific point of view. The properties this question asks for, i.e. `reality\u27 or, one level deeper: `objectivity\u27, are not accessible to intersubjective verification: There is no experiment and no testing method by which we could find out if something is `real\u27. `Real\u27 is a metaphysical predicate. It does not appear in scientific sentences
Lucid Dreams and Migraine: A Second Investigation
No full textIn a previous study (Irwin, 1983) I established a moderately strong association between the occurrence of lucid dreams and a personal history of migraine. That is, migraine suffers were found to be relatively prone to lucid dreaming
Personal Exploration of Lucid Dreaming
No full textThis panel discussion will begin with a presentation of personal experiences with lucid dreaming. These are by people who have had many of these dreams, have kept records of them, and have, I believe, much of interest to tell us. However, before we hear from them, I would like to make a remark about dreaming and the important con-tribution personal experiences can make. If you think about it, you may wonder where we actually begin to know the things we know about lucid dreams. Well, it happened that there were people like the Marquis d’Hervey de Saint-Denys and Frederik Van Eden who made a project of discovering what could be done with lucid dreaming. They made entire studies of lucid dreams, and from them we have learned many things that could be very important. We still have much to learn about the phenomenology of lucid dreaming, and individual explorers can contribute as much as the pioneers of the last Century
Harvey Irwin\u27s "Flight of Mind: A Psychological Study of the Out-of-Body Experience"
No full textAmong the many recent books on the out-of-body experience (or OBE) Flight of Mind provides one of the best reviews of research findings, as well as presenting a new theory to account for them. Irwin, an Australian psychologist, takes a primarily psychological approach and begins by redefining the OBE -as an experience in which "the center of consciousness appears to the experient to occupy temporarily a position which is spatially remote from his/her body".Among the advantages of this helpful definition are that it assumes no theoretical position nor even that the experience has to be visual. Of course, as Irwin makes clear, the notion of a center of consciousness is purely phenomenological and not objective