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Speculations on Healing with the Lucid Dream
No full textHave you ever had a dream where you knew you were dreaming while you were dreaming? This has come to be known as a lucid dream. Dream experiences of this nature are not new as references to them can be found in the Tibetan Buddhist literature as well as in early writings of western philosophers. More recent historical antecedents to the concept of the lucid dream have come from parapsychology, specifically from research and speculation about the out-of-body experience (OBE). Lucid dream researchers argue, however, that the OBE is a misinterpreted lucid dream -in other words you are having a dream and erroneously conclude you are awake
Lucid Dreams and Meditation
No full textA problem with many studies of lucid dreams is their theoretical and empirical insularity-a lucid dream, apparently, is a lucid dream is a lucid dream. Of course things are always uniquely themselves, but to see what something means, it is necessary to try to place it in the broader context of its natural series with related phenomena
Comments on the OBE/Lucid Dream Controversy
No full textThe lucid dream experience and the out-of-body ex-perience are currently being interpreted in quite different ways. The two positions I would like to focus on are the most extreme positions taken by the lucid dream and OBE camps. The OBEers, who describe their experiences as actual separation from the physical body, tend to relegate lucid dreaming to a lesser state of awareness or a state from which one can catapult oneself out-of-body. The extreme lucid dreamer position claims that OBEers are simplistically naive and are “just” dreaming lucidly confusing a hallucinated dream world for a supposed spiritual world or “real” physical world (LaBerge, 1985)
Bio-Magnetic-Imaging: Healing Implications
No full textA new field of scientific investigation called bioelectromagnetics, involves the interaction of living beings with electromagnetic fields. A major area of development within it is in Bio-Magnetic-Imaging (BMI). This is an ultrahigh technology research and development effort designed to detect and display the dynamically changing patterns of magnetic field energy surrounding a living organism. The final display of the system will resemble a multicolored pattern of energy fields having the shape of the body being scanned
Lucid Dreams: New Research on Consciousness During Sleep (Edited by Jayne Gackenbach and Stephen LaBerge; Plenum: in press)
No full textAmong the mysteries of sleep, dreaming must surely be considered the most wonderful; then how much more so must be considered the lucid dream, in which dreamers know that they are dreaming and are in a certain sense awake, and yet are soundly asleep
The Out-of-Body Experience: A Personal Account
No full textI’m going to summarize some of my experiences at a metaphysical school in England, Claregate College, some of my personal inner experiences, and how these relate to the OBE and lucid dreaming
Personality Characteristics Associated With the Dream Lucidity Ability: Fact or Fiction
No full textTwo areas of particular interest to me about lucid dreaming are: (1) individual differences; is there a certain type of person who is likely to have these experiences and (2) systematic analysis of the content of the experience. I’ll be talking about the content analysis later. Right now, I’m going to talk about the type of person who is likely to have this dream. A complete review of our program of research on in-dividual differences will soon be available (Snyder & Gackenbach, in press).
H—reflex in Lucid Dreams
No full textWhen I started medical school, I wanted to continue doing psychophysiological research into consciousness during REM sleep, but many of my mentors suggested that by definition this was impossible. I was going to have to come up with some sort of unequivocal proof that the phenomenon I was talking about was indeed REM sleep and not a micro-awakening. After collaborating with Stephen LaBerge, and others, and reviewing the literature, we decided that the best thing to do would be to continuously monitor H-reflex amplitude throughout the night, its suppression being a unique criterion of REM sleep.
Kinesthetic Imagery as a Quality of Lucid Awareness:Descriptive and Experimental Case Studies
No full textThis is a revision of the paper presented at the lucidity symposium. It contains numerous conceptual clarifications and a discussion of some results collected subsequent to the symposium. Throughout this symposium there has been substantial agreement that lucid dreaming can be defined as ‘an awareness of dreaming while dreaming’. This definition may be adequate in a general sense, but to facilitate research into specific questions about lucid dream formation, a more specific statement is required
MENTAL HEALTH APPLICATIONS: A PANEL DISCUSSION: Mental Health Applications
No full textWe turn now to the application of the technique of lucid dreaming. We’ve looked at a lot of ways that induce lucidity, we’ve seen what it’s com-posed of physiologically. But, what can it do for us? What’s the point? Suppose we can produce this state at will, will that make any difference in our lives? And if so, how? What we’re going to consider now of course is the viewpoint of our different distinguished panelists. We have Jean Campbell, Judy Malamud, Ann Wiseman and Gordon Halliday. I’ll tell you a little bit about each of them before they make their comments and then we’ll consider together different aspects of the value of lucid dreaming. Judy is a psychologist from New York City who practices psychotherapy; she leads dream and lucidity workshops. In 1979 she completed her doctoral dissertation on lucid dreaming