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Comments on an Investigation of the Relative Degree of Activation in Lucid Dreams
No full textObservations and experiments in connection the light switch phenomenon (LSP) both in my case and those of others (See LL’s 3 & 4) prompt me to suggest that in dreaming, including lucid dreaming, a significant amount of the anomalous content arises as a result of the reliance by the dreamer upon patterns of expectation which though appropriate in waking life are not appropriate to the changed circumstances under which dream imagery is constructed. In particular in the LSP the time taken for dream imagery to be constructed, even though it is only a matter of seconds, is rather longer than the time taken for a scene to be illuminated and perceived while awake after switching on areal electric light. The failure of the mechanism which creates dream imagery to perform at a rate which conforms to the dreamer’s waking expectations leads to further anomalies as other expectations are brought in to explain why the light does not come on. These expectations are also inappropriate because in dreams there are e.g., no fuses to blow or other material causes of that nature; the material causes lie in the brain and the brain does not work upon the same principles as those of domestic electricity distribution. There are certainly no fuses in the brain
Migraine, Out-of-Body Experiences, and Lucid Dreams
No full textIn some of the literature on out-of-body experiences (OBEs) a relationship between the experiences and migraine has been suggested. This notion seems to have its origin Lippman’s paper on sensations of “physical duality” evoked during various phases of a migraine attack. Several writers including Black2 have implied that the link between these two states is not limited temporally to the period of the migraine; rather migrainuers generally are susceptible to the OBE at other times too, so that there is a realtively high frequency of migraineurs among out—of—body experimenters (OBErs
Lucidity and Reading: A German Lucid Dreamer’s Report
No full textIn the year 1938 there appeared, in a German academic journal on psychology, an article describing a series of twenty—two lucid dreams experienced by Harold von Moers-Messmer.In his dream life Moers—Messmer exhibits an unusually observant, objective, experiment—minded personality. Many of his experiences are typical —the incongruous detail that alerts one to the dream state, the brightly colored environment, the prickling sensation (“like dipping one’s arm into a bath of carbonic acid bubbles” says the doctor), and the ability to fly
Meditation and Lucid Dreams
No full textEighteen regular meditators in various meditative traditions completed a 30—day: dream diary and gave information regarding previous dream experience and meditative practice. They rated each dream as lucid, partially lucid, control or none of these, and for each dream indicated whether they had actually heard voices, heard other sounds or felt bodily movement
Review of "Leaving the Body: A Complete Guide to Astral Projection" by D.S. Rogo.
No full textRogo’s aim in this book is to provide members of the general public witha simple yet com-prehensive guideto systems for the induction of the out—of-body experience(OBE) or “as-tral traveling” as it is termed in occult circles. The OBE is an experience in which one has the impression that consciousness or the center of awarenessis outside the body. Typically this impressionis accompanied by a realistic perceptual—like experienceof the immediate environment from the out—of—bodyperspective, and on occasion the experience may venture to more distant setting and evento surrealistic realms
Lost Lucid Dreaming Ability
No full textI used to be a very active lucid dreamer until I lost the ability through my abuse of a lucid dream. To make s long story very short I started lucid dreaming in my early teens. I had reoccurring nightmares since my childhood and by my early teens I had learned to wake myself. I soon then learned I didn’t have to wake myself but rather could altar my dream so as to have a pleasant outcome
Auditory Biofeedback as a Lucidity Induction Technique
No full textIn January of 1982 we initiated an investigation of the effect of auditory biofeedback during REM sleep on the dream content of a single subject. At that time we could not have foreseen that our procedure would uncover a potentially valuable lucidity induction technique
Introduction
No full textThis is the fifth issue of a quarterly newsletter which is provided free of cost and is designed to serve as a professional forum for discussion on dream lucidity
Senoi Dream Praxis
No full textAnthropologists who work with the people Kilton Stewart called ‘senoi’ agree that his account of how those people talk about and use dreams is rather idealized. The inaccuracies seem to stem from unconscious but systematic methodological biases which Domhoff and I have discussed at length elsewhere (Ed. Note: See note at end of article). The following account of Senoi dream praxis draws on discussions I have had with other anthropologists, notably Geoffrey Benjamin of the University of Singapore and Clay Robarchek of the University of California. Senoi themselves, however, supplied most of the information, during conversations with me while I was Living with them in 1961—1963 and 1975. This article is therefore a critique neither of Stewart’s work nor of the therapy he pro-moted, merely a presentation of dream theory in Malaya