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A conscious mind in a sleeping brain: the title of this book provides a vivid image of the phenomenon of lucid dreaming, in which dreamers are consciously aware that they are dreaming while they seem to be soundly asleep. Lucid dreamers could be said to be awake to their inner worlds while they are asleep to the external world. Of the many questions that this singular phenomenon may raise, two are foremost: What is consciousness? And what is sleep? Although we cannot pro vide complete answers to either question here, we can at least explain the sense in which we are using the two terms. We say lucid dreamers are conscious because their subjective reports and behavior indicate that they are explicitly aware of the fact that they are asleep and dreaming; in other words, they are reflectively conscious of themselves. We say lucid dreamers are asleep primarily because they are not in sensory contact with the external world, and also because research shows physiological signs of what is conventionally considered REM sleep. The evidence presented in this book-preliminary as it is-still ought to make it clear that lucid dreaming is an experiential and physiological reality. Whether we should consider it a paradoxical form of sleep or a paradoxical form of waking or something else entirely, it seems too early to tell.
Contents
1 Introduction.- I. Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming.- 2 Lucid Dreaming in Western Literature.- 3 Lucid Dreams in Tibetan Buddhism.- 4 Lucidity, Sex, and Horror in Senoi Dreamwork.- II. Empirical Approaches to the Study of Lucid Dreaming.- 5 From Spontaneous Event to Lucidity: A Review of Attempts to Consciously Control Nocturnal Dreaming.- 6 Lucid Dream Induction: An Empirical Evaluation.- 7 The Psychophysiology of Lucid Dreaming.- 8 Correspondence during Lucid Dreams between Dreamed and Actual Events.- 9 Psychological Content of Lucid versus Nonlucid Dreams.- 10 Individual Differences Associated with Lucid Dreaming.- III. Personal Accounts and Clinical Applications.- 11 A Model for Lucidity Training as a Means of Self-Healing and Psychological Growth.- 12 Clinical Applications of Lucid Dreaming Introductory Comments.- 13 Personal Experiences in Lucid Dreaming.- 14 Without a Guru: An Account of My Lucid Dreaming.- IV. Theoretical Implications of This New Research.- 15 Out-of-the-Body Experiences and Dream Lucidity: Empirical Perspectives.- 16 A Theory of Lucid Dreams and OBEs.- 17 Lucid Dreams in Their Natural Series: Phenomenological and Psychophysiological Findings in Relation to Meditative States.- 18 Action and Representation in Ordinary and Lucid Dreams.- 19 Dream Psychology: Operating in the Dark.
