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Diogenes June 1, 1995 Christian Bouchet
The belief that obscure dreams have meaning, that they can be understood in spite of their seeming incoherence, is shared by most cultures: the importance attributed to the interpretation of dreams comes up several times in such sacred texts as the Bible and Talmud, where it is warned that an uninterpreted dream is like an unopened letter. However, even if such a point of view may justify the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1995 Jonathan Green 9 citations
Article exploring a large phenomenological overlap among lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, and near-death experiences, which suggests the possibility of developing a methodology of replicating components of the near-death experience using newly developed methods of inducing lucid dreams.
1992 Vicki Holoubeck-Arnold
The present study investigated the moderating influences of hypnotic susceptibility and posthypnotic suggestions on induction of lucid dreams. Forty two subjects - 13 high, 14 medium, and 15 low hypnotizables - were selected for inclusion in the study. All subjects were screened for hypnotic susceptibility levels initially on the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic susceptibility (HGSHS:A), then...
1991 Antonio Zadra 1 citation
The efficacy of a lucid dream induction (LDI) technique was evaluated. The results indicated that, among previously non-lucid dreamers, a significantly greater proportion of subjects who had access to the technique reported a lucid dream. This group also reported more lucid dreams overall than the control group. For prior lucid dreamers, the technique was found to increase the number of such...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality September 1, 1989 Donald W. Stewart, David Koulack
Retrospective dream reports from 179 undergraduate students were scored by two independent raters in an attempt to assess the reliability of a newly-developed rating system for lucid dream content. The weighted Kappa statistic, which provides an index of chance-corrected interrater agreement for qualitative data, was used to assess the reliability of the ratings. The results indicated that the...
Perceptual and Motor Skills April 1, 1989 P Tholey
A description of several phenomenological experiments is given. These were done to investigate of which cognitive accomplishments dream characters are capable in lucid dreams. Nine male experienced lucid dreamers participated as subjects. They were directed to set different tasks to dream characters they met while lucid dreaming. Dream characters were asked to draw or write, to name unknown...
Medical Hypotheses August 1, 1988 W Sergio
A food supplement, namely DMAE, that facilitates the induction of lucid dreams is discussed. Included is a brief consideration of the therapeutic potential of such dreams.
Psychophysiology July 1, 1984 Paul D. Tyson, Robert D. Ogilvie, Harry T. Hunt 59 citations
ABSTRACT Alpha activity during REM sleep without signs of awakening can discriminate between the blind classification of prelucid, lucid, and nonlucid dreams. Ten good dream recallers were aroused after relatively high or low amplitude REM alpha. The spectral and temporal characteristics of EEG alpha within each REM period were associated with lucidity and other content dimensions. Each type of...
Biological Psychology June 1, 1984 Peter Fenwick, Morton Schatzman, Alan Worsley et al. 56 citations
During lucid dreaming, a subject willed movements of his fingers, toes and feet, remembered tasks, and counted sensory stimuli. Dreamed speech was related to respiration. EMG activity corresponding to dreamed actions was greater in flexor than in extensor limb muscles and was never present in axial muscles.
Perceptual and Motor Skills August 1, 1983 Paul Tholey 73 citations
In research conducted over several years and with over 200 subjects we have developed various techniques for inducing and manipulating lucid dreams. Lucidity can be achieved in the following ways: by practice in developing a critical-reflective frame of mind concerning one's state of consciousness, by intention and autosuggestion, and by methods involving apparatus. It is also possible to...