Lucid Dreams

[jamesmartin]

Dude that sucks .... How do I become a mod ? I hve been a bluelighter for a while and I'm on here like 24/7 pretty much

 

[MyDoorsAreOpen]

^ I think I'll merge this thread with the old one on lucid dreaming, but I see no need to close it.

You wanna be a mod? See the sticky at the top of this forum. I'm serious.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Find a forum in which you'd most like to help out by closing threads, moving them, and merging them too. You must know the rules both of BL and said forum. Every so often (about once every 6months generally speaking) a mod spot will open up. You need to be helpful to BLers while being knowledgeable in the forum's material. Submit a kick-ass mod application and the (s)mods will make the call on you beating someone else to the mod stick .

 

[the black sun]

Watch a film called 'Waking life'.

I understand that it as nothing to do with 'mastering' dreams but i'm sure you will find it very insightful.

Let me know what you think......

yer ive watched a bit of waking life kinda need to watch it again but it is extremely deep.

 

[romsoccer12]

lucid dreaming

has anyone in here gotten to the point where they can lucid dream every night??
im trying to get to that point and right now i can remember most of my dreams in the morning, but i havent started a dream book yet. any other things that can help out?

 

[psood0nym]

Physiological correlates of lucid dreaming

Just thought I'd post this for people's info. The abstract makes it sound like this is the first information of this kind on lucid dreaming.

Study Objectives: The goal of the study was to seek physiological correlates of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a dissociated state with aspects of waking and dreaming combined in a way so as to suggest a specific alteration in brain physiology for which we now present preliminary but intriguing evidence. We show that the unusual combination of hallucinatory dream activity and wake-like reflective awareness and agentive control experienced in lucid dreams is paralleled by significant changes in electrophysiology.
Design: 19-channel EEG was recorded on up to 5 nights for each participant. Lucid episodes occurred as a result of pre-sleep autosuggestion.
Setting: Sleep laboratory of the Neurological Clinic, Frankfurt University.
Participants: Six student volunteers who had been trained to become lucid and to signal lucidity through a pattern of horizontal eye movements.
Measurements and Results: Results show lucid dreaming to have REM-like power in frequency bands δ and θ, and higher-than-REM activity in the γ band, the between-states-difference peaking around 40 Hz. Power in the 40 Hz band is strongest in the frontal and frontolateral region. Overall coherence levels are similar in waking and lucid dreaming and significantly higher than in REM sleep, throughout the entire frequency spectrum analyzed. Regarding specific frequency bands, waking is characterized by high coherence in α, and lucid dreaming by increased δ and θ band coherence. In lucid dreaming, coherence is largest in frontolateral and frontal areas.
Conclusions: Our data show that lucid dreaming constitutes a hybrid state of consciousness with definable and measurable differences from waking and from REM sleep, particularly in frontal areas.