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Experimentation With the Vortex Phenomenon in Lucid Dreams
No full textThe “vortex phenomenon” is an experience in which there is the sensation of whirling through a vortex. The visual component of the phenomenon (i. e. the vortex) is an adaption of Kluver’s geometric constants (Kluver, 1966) with the added characteristic of intricate dreamer involvement. Two of these in this study due to their special assessability in becoming a vortex. The commonly reported “tunnel experience” I feel is a sub—section of the fully developed vortex
Lucid Dreams Bibliography Update
No full textEach issue of Lucidity Letter contains recent references on dream lucidity. The complete bibliography can be obtained by purchasing all past issues
Out-of-Body Experiences as Lucid Dreams: A Critique
No full textIn his recent book on lucid dreaming, Stephen LaBerge(1985a) suggests that out-of-body experiences represent a form of lucid dreaming. The only difference between the two experiences, he argues, is the way the subject interprets the experience. LaBerge goes on to show that the type of reasoning and observations that occur during OB states is similar to phenomena arising from lucid dreaming. He also cites the experiences of Oliver Fox (19710, whose OBEs were bound up with experiments and experiences with dreaming awareness
Eye Movement Direction and The Lucid Dreaming Ability
No full textIn conjunction with an experiment assessing the vestibular sensitivity of frequently lucid dreamers as measured by caloric nystagmus (Gackenbach, Sachau & Rokes, 1982), spontaneous nystagmus or baseline eye movement data were obtained. This is a report on the results and implications of this baseline measure
Are Lucid Dreams Universal? Two Unequivocal Cases of Lucid Dreaming Among Han Chinese University Students in Beijing, 1985
No full textAs one of us recently argued (Dentan, in press a, b), many phenomena in nonWestern societies resemble lucid dreaming, but the ethnographic literature includes relatively few specific cases of such phenomena which are unambiguously both lucid and dreams. Much of the ethnographic material comes from societies with elaborated “culture pattern dreams,” highly desired ASCs often involving a degree of conscious control (e.g., Harner, 1973: Noll, 1983). Accounts of lucidity in such culture pattern dreams may stem from informants recasting non—lucid ASCs into stereotyped local narrative formats whose conventions mimic lucidity. Conversely, bearing dream accounts in such formats may predispose listeners to lucid dreaming (see, e.g., Devereux, 1957)
“Dream Lucidity and Near-Death Experience”: A Lucidity-Meditation Analysis
No full textWren-Lewis’ fascinating account shows an apparently very rare approximation of near-death experience to a felt dissolution into voidness and mystical enlightenment. If such full experiences do occur in the actually dying then one could infer that most resuscitated patients are pulled back earlier from its access stages. Consistent with other accounts of mystical realization, previous daily life is now seen as a clouded forgetfulness closely akin to ordinary dreaming, both being characterized by a narrowed pragmatic involvement that is “forgetful” of just that overall context or perspective that comes with enlightenment (temporary or long term) and is made more likely with meditative practice (the major historical self-awareness technique). Similarly, deep dreamless sleep now occurs with ongoing awareness as the direct experience of voidness and there is an at least initial paucity of dreams--possibly because background phasic physiological discharges are no longer clustered within the REM state or are more generally reduced and equilibrated. The dreams that do occur are correspondingly ordinary-based on “day residue” in-completion. He plausibly suggests that any association between NDE and lucid dreams would depend on the enhancement of reflective self-awareness resulting from intermediate level NDE carrying over into dreams, which is also consistent with several suggestions that dream lucidity is itself a spontaneous meditative state. Indeed both developed meditation and lucid dreaming share a receptivity to a broader sense of context that balances off the narrowing involvements of the everyday world with all its “projects” (necessarily completed because endlessly renewed and redefined). I have recently reported two studies in which we found a correlation between meditative practice and tendency to lucid-control dreams
What DoWe Mean By “Lucidity”?
No full textJohn Wren-Lewis fascinating article (1985), reinforcing the discussions George Gillespie and I have been having (Gillespie, 1983; Tart, 1984), demonstrates much we need to clarity the term “lucid.” It raises many other vital issues, but space limitations preclude my commenting on them here
Sex Differences in Lucid Dreaming Self—Reported Frequency: A Second Look
No full textIn earlier issues of Lucidity Letterit was reported that females experience more lucid dreams than males (Vol 1, Numbers 1 & 2). Dream recall was not controlled in any of these studies. One-way analyses of covariance on various lucid dreaming frequency estimates with dream recall as the covariate for four different samples resulted is no sex differences. Table 1 lists the specifics of these findings. It should be noted that in all four samples care was taken to ensure that subjects understood the concept of dream lucidity by collecting a sample lucid dream and requiring the inclusion of a recognition phrase (i.e. “then I realized I was dreaming”) in the transcript before a subject was included in subsequent data analyses