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Dreamspeaker Programme
No full textAt the moment I am working on another project that I call the Dreamspeaker Programme. It involves conditioning consciousness so that the dreamer might not only bring waking consciousness into the dream state, but also bring dreaming consciousness into the waking state
Keith Hearne’s Work on Lucid Dreaming
No full textMany hundreds of people in the U.S. and other countries have written to me asking about my research into lucid dreaming, so let me summarize it thus. My initial knowledge of the phenomenon came from reading Celia Green’s little book “Lucid Dreams,” and van Eeden’a paper given to the Society for Psychical Research, in 1913. Having completed some research into the modification of evoked—responses by visual imagery,3’4 my thoughts turned to the question of whether a suitable channel of communication could be established between a lucid dreamer and the outside world, so permitting the dream to be studied ‘from within’ for the first time. A method using ocular signaling, which circumvented the general bodily atonia of REM sleep, was found to work beautifully with a subject on the morning of 12 April 1975 at 8.07 in the Department of Psychology at Hull University. That breakthrough enabled me to define the basic characteristics of lucid dreams in a 3-year study for a Ph.D.5’6’7’8’9~10~11 after transferring to Liverpool University. The thesis5 was lodged in May 1978, and copies are obtainable from the Librarian
Word of Thanks
No full textI would like to take a moment to thank all of you for your encouragement in this newsletter endeavor
Switching On a Light While Lucid
No full textI have a content item with respect to Keith Hearne’s observation that none of us lucid dreamers could switch on a light
Clinical Utility Seen in Lucid Dreaming Ability
No full textA brief note concerning my work with patients involving lucid dreaming follows. The first part of the note describes my work in helping persons modify nightmares. The second part describes the results of a case in which Hearne’s 10 tests for differentiating dreams from reality showed clinical utility
Imagery Skills and Lucid Dreaming Ability
No full textI am also very interested in the relationship between imagery skills and OBEs and lucid dreams
Balance and Lucid Dreaming Ability: A Suggested Relationship
No full textTwo lines of evidence support a relationship between balance and lucidity. Balance emerged from the factor structure of the content of lucid dreams but not from the content of ordinary dreams and REM burst have been found to reliably precede lucidity, such bursts resulting from internal stimulation of the vestibular nuclei. Since it is unclear whether the proposed relationship between balance and dream lucidity exists on a gross motor or on a vestibular level both were recently measured by myself
Lucid Dreams, Out-of-Body Experiences and Near-Death Experiences
No full textOver the last several months several items have come to my attention regarding the relationship between lucid dreams, out—of—body experiences (OBE) and near—death experience. One of the major reasons that I got involved in lucid dreaming research was their apparent similarity to OBE’s and the role of OBE’s in near—death experiences. My recent interest in this relationships was sparked by a letter I received in response to materials on dream lucidity I had sent the International Association for Near—Death Studies, Inc., Kenneth Ring
Settings and Causes of Lucidity
No full textDr. Hearne sent some data along from the content analysis of 100 lucid dreams regarding the causes of lucidity and the dream settings which were reported at the moment of lucidity.
A Suggested Experimental Method of Producing False—awakenings with Possible Resulting Lucidity on O.B.E.——The ‘Fast” (False— awakening with State Testing) Technique
No full textDuring the course of many of my sleep—laboratory experiments I have been struck by the fairly high number of reported false—awakenings where the subject has dreamed that he or she has woken. Such is the verisimilitude of the dream scenery with the actual environment, the dreamer simply assumes that a brief wakening has occurred. Indeed, the stimulus for the phenomenon is often an external disturbance of some kind, but it seems that sometimes even that is dreamed. What the subject reports having happened may bear no relation to reality. Thus, a subject may state that the experimenter asked for a dream account or came to adjust an electrode, when in fact the subject was quite undisturbed. It is probable that false—awakenings are common at home too, but they nearly always go unrecognized