Lucid Dreaming
1 videos • 12 views • by Life Transforming Center In the psychology subfield of oneirology, a lucid dream is one in a dream in which the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming while they are dreaming. It is a trainable skill. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some volitional control over the dream characters, narrative, or environment. However, this control of dream content is only one of the salient features of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming has been studied and reported for many years. Prominent figures from ancient to modern times have been fascinated by lucid dreams and sought ways to understand their causes and purposes better. Many theories have emerged due to scientific research and have even been shown in pop culture. Further developments in psychological research have pointed to ways this form of dreaming may be utilized as a form of sleep therapy. The term lucid dream was coined by Dutch author and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in his 1913 article A Study of Dreams,] though descriptions of dreamers being aware that they are dreaming predate the article Van Eeden studies own dreams between January 20, 1898, and December 26, 1912, recording the ones he deemed most important in a dream diary. 352 of these dreams are categorized as lucid. Definition Paul Tholey laid the epistemological basis for the research of lucid dreams, proposing seven different conditions that claritoream must fulfill to be defined as a lucid dream: Awareness of the dream state (orientation) Awareness of the capacity to make decisions Awareness of memory functions Awareness of self Awareness of the dream environment Awareness of the meaning of the dream Awareness of concentration and focus (the subjective clarity of that state) Later, in 1992, a study by Deirdre Barrett examined whether lucid dreams contained four "corollaries" of lucidity: The dreamer is aware that they are dreaming familiar actions will not carry over after waking Physical laws need not apply in the dream The dreamer has a clear memory of the waking world Barrett found less than a quarter of lucidity accounts exhibited all four. Subsequently, Stephen LaBerge studied the prevalence of being able to control the rebound scenario among dreams and found that while dream control and dream are interrelated, neither requires the other. LaBerge found dreams that exhibit one clearly without the capacity for the other; also, in some dreams where the dreamer is lucid and aware they could exercise control, they choose loveobserve.