Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain: Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming 1st Edition by J. Gackenbach (PDF)

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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.

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⭐This compilation of the leading research on lucid dreaming, includes 19 chapters, each contributed by leading researchers in the field,such as Paul Tholey (great techniques for learning lucidity), Judith Malamud (vital practices to increase lucidity), Charles Tart, Sue Blackmore, Alan Worsley, and Patricia Garfield.These chapters address the subject of lucid dreaming in a broad interdisciplinary manner. It contains chapters providing historical and cultural perspectives, reviews of empirical investigations, discussions of clinical applications, accounts of personal experiences, and theoretical chapters relating lucid dreaming to the out-of-the-body experience, meditation, descriptive psychology and cognitive psychology. The material varies from the general to technical, although it is quite readable by the non-specialist.If you are interested in the nature of consciousness, this book has material published nowhere else for the general public. If you are seeking to learn, or simply expand upon, the ability to lucid dream, I found this book indespensible. It has helped me enormously.Also, my own personal experience has been greatly facilitated by techniques and theory in THE ART OF SPIRITUAL DREAMING by Harold Klemp and HOW I LEARNED TO SOUL TRAVEL by Terrill Wilson.

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