LDF – Lucid Dream Frequency
CRT – Cognitive Reflections Test
DLPFC – Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Locus Of Control – “…the degree to which people believe that they have control over the outcome of events in their lives, as opposed to external forces beyond their control.” – Wikipedia

“Type 1 – thinking is fast, intuitive, unconscious thought. Most everyday activities (like driving, talking, cleaning, etc.) make heavy use of the type 1 system…
The type 2 system is slow, calculating, conscious thought. When you’re doing a difficult math problem or thinking carefully about a philosophical problem, you’re engaging the type 2 system. – Hacker News – quanticle on June 12, 2012 – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102848

The below excerpts are from a research paper initially published in the International Journal Of Dream Research – modified by addition of picture(s) – Rizea, A. E., & Malinowski, J. E. (2017). An investigation of a dual-processing hypothesis of lucid dreaming. International Journal of Dream Research, 10(1), 15–22. https://doi.org/10.11588/ijodr.2017.1.29722 

 “An Investigation Of A Dual-Processing Hypothesis Of Lucid Dreaming

Andreea E. Rizea, University of Bedfordshire, Department of Psychology, United Kingdom
Josie E. Malinowski, University of East London, School of Psychology, United Kingdom

…Neuroimaging research has isolated the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) as a brain structure associated with lucid dreaming, indicating that higher-order executive functions are involved in the onset of lucid dreaming. The DLPFC has also been implicated in the onset of type 2 thinking…

 …The present study investigated this potential link, hypothesising that lucid dreaming frequency would be related to type 2 thinking…

… The type 2 processing mechanism is believed to be uniquely human as it allows sophisticated reasoning capacities different from those seen in animals…Furthermore, it is thought to require decontextualized processing which tends to reject knowledge or belief-based biases. When confronted with a problem, some people may come up with quick and plausible judgement, while others may discard the immediate response and engage in further reflection… One proposed explanation suggests that people tend to neglect information in their thinking, mostly because the type 1 processing mechanism is used by default due to its low computational expense…This strong bias to default to the least expensive computational mechanism results in humans being less than rational…The fMRI studies available provide support for the qualitative distinction between belief- and reason-based response, with activation in different regions of the brain for the two instances…In addition…found neuroimaging evidence of type 2 processing system overwriting the type 1 processing system that was coming from the emotion centres, thus concluding that the main area responsible for overwriting an emotional response is the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex….The sudden insight that one experiences at the beginning of a lucid dream could be attributed to the activation of the rational type 2 processing system that overwrites the dominant emotional type 1 system. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is normally deactivated during REM sleep…shows activation during lucid dreaming… The same area is thought to be involved mainly in linking the information stored in our short-term memory to the organisation of forthcoming actions… Thus, this particular area of the brain that activates during lucid dreams loads heavily on working memory while supporting theoretical thinking which is necessary for the planning of future events. These attributes have been found as defining features of the type 2 processing system. Moreover, the evolution of this rational second system can be seen as a precursor and requirement for the manifestation of lucid dreams because they require conscious rationality. There seem to be a connection between the workings of the second system and lucid dreaming mediated by the activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Thus, it is worth investigating the dual-processing theory of reasoning as a possible explanation for the emergence of lucid dreams…

…A lateral/dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulation caused by syllogism content was noticed in a study conducted by Brunetti et al (2014) when looking at the influence of emotions on reasoning abilities. This is the area that is deactivated during REM sleep, but active during lucid dreaming; thus providing more evidence of the connection between dual-processing theory and lucid dreaming, more precisely the activation of type 2 processing system that corresponds to the sudden realisation that one is dreaming. As far as causality is concerned, it makes sense to assume that the activation of type 2 processing system coincides with the onset of a lucid dream…

…Thus the first study supported previous research in finding a relationship between lucid dream frequency and dream recall frequency, and lucid dream frequency and internal locus of control. However, it did not support previous findings pertaining to openness to experience, nor video game play. Further, it did not find evidence for a relationship between lucid dream frequency and scores on the Cognitive Reflections Test, thereby not supporting a dual process hypothesis of lucid dreaming…

…Overall, the findings of the present paper indicate that there are relationships between prospective and retrospective measures of lucid dream frequency (LDF) and openness to experience, locus of control, and dream recall frequency. However, the dual processing hypothesis of lucid dreaming was not supported: no relationship between LDF and Cognitive Reflective Test scores, nor with scores on a syllogisms test, was found, neither with retrospective nor prospective estimates of LDF. In addition there was no relationship found between LDF and video game play…

…Further research could implement other measures of reflective reasoning abilities or focus on measuring reflective awareness of the environment and of oneself. On the other hand, this was not the first study to fail to find a relationship between lucid dreaming and a task known to require dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation…

… It is likely that lucid dream onset is more complicated than a simple reactivation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex…it may be that different neural substrates are implicated in different kinds of lucid dreaming, since lucid dreaming is not a unitary phenomenon. Although humans spend one third of their life sleeping, most models of human cognition are structured based upon evidence derived from waking-life cognition. The development of a 24 hour model of cognition is necessary for the further understanding of consciousness. The existence of lucid dreaming reveals higher-order cognitive skills present during sleep; skills that previously have been assumed to be characteristic only of waking life. The question remains whether there is any relationship between the manifestation of higher-order cognitive skills in dreams and their manifestation in waking life. The uniquely human ability to reflect upon ourselves, think about past and plan the future could help illuminate the human condition…

…Conclusion There was no relationship found between rational reflective abilities measured with the Cognitive Reflective Test nor the syllogisms test and lucid dream frequency…therefore providing no evidence for a dual-processing account of lucid dreaming. However, internal locus of control, dream recall frequency, and openness to experience were correlated with lucid dream frequency, supporting previous research.” 

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“The Relationship Between Energy and Form in Dreams and the Expansion of Consciousness”

 By Dr. Nigel Hamilton – London, United Kingdom

“Energy and matter are interchangeable (Einstein). Yet the energy (field) and matter (form) that appear as pictures/ landscapes in our dreams seem determined by something more primary, our consciousness… 

Indeed, lucid dream experiences can lead to what the Tibetan Dream Yogis call “the dreamless state” a transcendental experience in which there are no images, no sense of time or space, only “clear light” or awareness. In such experiences, emotions take on a subtle, transpersonal character such as a profound sense of serenity, peace and harmony.Just as we can experience a changing sense of time and space in a single dream – and over the course of an extended cycle of dreams covering several years – so we can also experience a shift in our emotions in a single dream or over the course of time. As we become free of our psychological blocks, fear, scripts and our assumptions about who or what we are, the spaces and the images in the dream open up, time dilates and the dreamscapes become more colourful and more beautiful.

Some lucid dreamers have related experiences of timelessness and a sense of the omnipresent. Some have described the changing dream space as a change into another reality, a higher spatial dimension of deeper feeling, knowing, and being. In such instances, the dreamer’s emotional tenor, heart longing and consciousness appear aligned with the source of consciousness in a transcendent state. As a result, the dreamer re-enters waking reality with a fuller, more expanded sense of self and their relationship to the universe. Often, the dreamer’s waking world also becomes more clearly reflective of their heart longing…” – Dr. Niguel Hamilton

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I began lucid dreaming spontaneously around the age of nineteen. For approximately the next fifteen years I would enter these intense, highly bizarre states of consciousness on a nearly nightly basis – often for hours on end. After my first experience of “waking up” within a dream there was only one thing I was certain of: whatever had just happened to me was unusual and significant, although I had no clue what that might mean. As the months and years went on, my nightly journeys grew ever more strange and elaborate, and my questions only mounted. Some of these environments I was entering appeared quite earthly, others completely alien – and some were a bizarre mix of the two. Many of these lucid landscapes seemed to be inhabited by characters as sentient and intelligent as myself, and disturbingly enough, often every bit as capable of independent thought as the people in my waking life. Each experience brought up more questions than it offered answers, but I slowly learned tricks to maintain focus and control in these realms much in the same way a child has to learn to walk.

This phenomena became so jarring to my sense of perspective and self that soon my routine and worldly concerns took a backseat to my thirst for knowledge on the subject. At the time, the internet wasn’t yet a “thing,” so my success with finding reliable resources depended heavily on whether I managed to find articles and books by authors with real experience and insight. I poured through what little lucid dreaming research I could find, I read thousands of personal accounts, and studied a number of spiritual and religious views on the subject – I even discovered a small handful of scientists and physicians brave enough to discuss it openly. I eventually found that, as with any other phenomena that seem to border on the paranormal, I had to sort through heaps of dogma and wishful thinking to get to the more grounded, practical information I so desperately craved.

After many years of research and hundreds more personal experiences later, I began formulating a few, essential “truths” this phenomena pointed back to over and over again. One of the major lessons lucidity repeatedly exposed me to could best be summarized as: The level of clarity and focus of the environments I was engaged in was highly dependent on the quantity of my attention at my disposal.

What does that mean exactly? For me it meant that the more undistracted, undivided awareness I brought to the dream determined how “real” my lucid world literally appeared to me, as well as how much control I could exert over it.

Specifically, at the lower end of the spectrum of awareness, I’ve had lucid dreams where I was only barely cognizant of the fact I was dreaming; I was still somewhat “caught up” in the storyline the dream was presenting. These visions were “unstable,” objects were dim and out of focus, and I exerted very little influence over how the dream scenarios played out. The way I see it, when too much of my attention is directed on solving some “dream dilemma,” I don’t have enough of it to keep my reality focused or “solid.” However, on the higher end of the spectrum where I’ve brought pure, undiluted attention to the dreamscape, I’ve been treated to environments that looked, felt, sounded, and even smelled somehow more real than anything I’ve experienced in my waking life. It’s as if the full onslaught of my present-moment awareness actively “reaches out” to make my dreamscape tightly focused and intensely hyper-real. I’ve run my hand over intricately carved stonework that was cool to the touch in such visions, where I was left in utter awe at the high-definition detail and textures spread out before me.

In short, the more undistracted attention we bring to our lucid dreams, the more clarity and control we enjoy in them. We might assume this dynamic is only true for dreams, which (we generally assume) are taking place safely in our heads. But does this “solidifying” quality our consciousness seems to possess only work in our dreams? We’ve been taught to consider taking in stimuli from the waking world around us as more of a one-way street where we are simply passive observers, but in lucid dreams we find our experience of our environment is far more a relationship where the very power of our attention is playing an active role in how “real” our surroundings are. Some of what I’m describing about the lucid realm may sound incredible, but to those of you with firsthand experience likely know exactly what I’m referring to.

Which brings us back to our waking reality: What does any of this relationship between attention and clarity have to do with our actual, daily life – here, in the physical world? Modern physics seems to suggest the answer is, well, everything. The idea of quantum mechanics often sounds so complicated and confusing, many of us run for the hills at the very mention of it, but keep in mind that when we talk about this area of study, we are simply referring to how our world operates at the particle level; the atoms, the electrons, the photons and protons: the tiny bits that make up literally everything in the cosmos. And, strangely enough, what particle researchers have been discovering about the nature of “reality” seems to be the exact same dynamics I’ve just laid out: Attention literally pulls the world into focus. Furthermore, we’re even finding that more attention means more focus.

Without getting too bogged down in the math or the complex details, let’s take a brief look at how awareness itself impacts the world from the physics’ perspective. If you recall your high school science class, you were taught that light can act as a wave or a particle. As students, we were just asked to memorize and accept that fact, but rarely were we asked to really consider just how strange that is. Stranger still, we’ve found that all of matter at the quantum level can act like a field of energy spread over an area of space (called a “wave”) or a highly localized “thing” that exists in one place at one time (a “particle.”) One way to think of this is to say that the particles that make up all the objects in our world can exist in an abstract field of energy, or they can be actual, solid “things.” And, here’s the punchline: Observation itself is a factor that can literally shift waves into particles.

You read that correctly: Our reality seems to exist in a “field of possibility,” but only when it is not being observed. Once a particle like an electron is formally measured or observed, only then does it become a particle. To be perfectly clear, physicists have conducted experiment after experiment which demonstrate single particles moving through tiny openings in screens where they behave like waves of energy; where a single particle moves through several openings at once – as long as nothing is observing the experiment take place. But once a device records the particle’s precise behavior everything changes: Only then does the particle behave like a normal object that exists in one place at a time. From Science Daily’s article, “Quantum Theory Demonstrated: Observation Affects Reality” on particle research conducted by Weizmann Institute Of Science:

“Once an observer begins to watch the particles going through the openings, the picture changes dramatically: if a particle can be seen going through one opening, then it’s clear it didn’t go through another. In other words, when under observation, electrons are being “forced” to behave like particles and not like waves. Thus the mere act of observation affects the experimental findings.”

This notion is illustrated – perhaps a little ominously – in the famous Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment which imagines a cat locked inside a box along with an unpredictable device that may or may not release a poison and kill the poor beast. As long as we don’t open the box, there is no telling whether the cat is alive or dead. Now, ordinary common sense and reason dictates that the cat must either be alive or dead, right? This is not the case with our universe at the particle level.

This may sound like absolute science fiction, but these bizarre properties of our universe have been tested around the globe in every way imaginable. And if this doesn’t sound impossible enough, we’ve uncovered yet another layer to this dynamic in these wave-to-particle experiments: When the capacity of a device to observe particle behavior is increased, the less wave-like properties our particles exhibit. To quote the same article on the Weizmann Institute Of Science research above:

“The experiment revealed that the greater the amount of “watching,” the greater the observer’s influence on what actually takes place.” –  Quantum Theory Demonstrated: Observation Affects Reality

So, this brings us back full circle, to perhaps one of the most valuable lessons lucid dreaming imparts to us: The level of clarity and focus of the environment we are engaged in is highly dependent on the quantity of our attention.

Sound familiar? Now, is it possible that these exact same dynamics we are uncovering both with lucidity practices and by particle physics is pure coincidence? Of course it is. But it’s irresponsible to cast these independent discoveries aside until we know for sure – especially when there is so much we don’t know about consciousness. I am not a scientist and certainly not a quantum physicist, but there is clearly a profound overlap here with my area of expertise. While I’ve not spent hundreds of hours in labs or science classrooms, I have spent years studying the one area that science is still scratching its head over: Consciousness. Consciousness is the one phenomenon that our friends in the anatomy, biology, neurophysiology and even physics departments don’t have an explanation for – not even a working hypothesis. They can’t say what it is, what it might be made of (if it’s even a proper “thing” at all) or where it might reside; i.e. they don’t understand its nature. But the one thing that modern physicists do agree on about consciousness is that it absolutely has an active hand in how the world around us takes shape. Literally. And more attention means more clarity.

My intention is to reach across the aisle and ask researchers to seriously consider that lucid dreamers and quantum physicists have a lot we could learn from each other. We are both discovering the exact same truths about the nature of awareness, we simply use different tools to explore reality, and a different language to describe our findings. Let’s work to be less suspicious of each other and engage in more open dialogue about our personal and objective findings on the topic of consciousness. This information concerns us all and if we are drawing the correct conclusions from our respective endeavors, the implications of the role our own awareness plays in our moment-by-moment experience of reality cannot and should not be ignored.

If you want to study some of these fascinating experiments discussed in this article in more detail, I suggest starting with theoretical physicist Brian Greene’s videos on The Double Slit Experiments or the research articles I quote above from Weizmann Institute Of Science. If you wish to really dig into the wildest implications of the Observation Effect on reality, pick up the novel inspired by my own lucidity experiences, “Tripping the Field”, an adventure through astral projection, shamanism and shapeshifting which takes place in a world manifested by consciousness.

Ian Jaydid

Author of “Tripping the Field”

See all of his art, cartoon and book projects at  http://Ianjaydid.com

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“…During lucid dreaming the bilateral precuneus, cuneus, parietal lobules, and prefrontal and occipito-temporal cortices activated strongly as compared with non-lucid REM sleep…

…We further observed increased activation in bilateral frontopolar areas, which have been related to the processing of internal states, e.g., the evaluation of one’s own thoughts and feelings…

…The strongest increase in activation during lucid compared to non-lucid REM sleep was observed in the precuneus, a brain region that has been implicated in self-referential processing, such as first-person perspective and experience of agency…

…Interestingly, we found activation in the bilateral cuneus and occipitotemporal cortices. These areas are part of the ventral stream of visual processing, which is involved in several aspects of conscious awareness in visual perception. While these activations seem puzzling… they are in line with reports of lucid dreamers stating that lucidity is associated with an exceptional brightness and visual clarity of the dream scenery…

…lucid dreaming therefore fits well with the therapeutic effects of lucidity training on recurrent nightmares. If lucid dreaming can also be utilized in the treatment of other dream disorders like terrifying hypnogogic hallucinations or pathological dream vivification is an open question that warrants further investigation.” … – By Martin Dresler, PhD, Renate Wehrle, PhD, Victor I. Spoormaker, PhD, Stefan P. Koch, PhD, Florian Holsboer, MD, PhD, Axel Steiger, MD, Hellmuth Obrig, MD, Philipp G. Sämann, MD, and Michael Czisch, PhD – www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3369221/

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The next generation of dream recording technology is under way. Cloud X is a non-profit, crowdfunded project set to take place in Los Angeles, California.

Considering that such technology is becoming a reality is quite mind-blowing and, of course, has various aspects to it. Below is some information on the new project. The team exists of quite a number of experts in the fields of psychology, neuropsychology and neuroimaging.

“The CLOUD X project is an attempt to record a complete dream—imagery, dreamed speech and dreamed motor behavior…

The technologies involved in the project will be a combination of electroencephalography (EEG), electrooculography (EOG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electromyography (EMG). EEG and EOG will help determine when the sleeper is in rapid eye movement sleep (ripe for dreaming), fMRI or fNIRS will capture dreamed imagery, and EMG will collect covert muscle activity used in dreamed speech and dreamed body movement reconstruction…

…recording and reconstructing dreamed visual imagery and dreamed speech are more complex. In both cases, pattern matching of awake recordings and dream recordings determine the resultant reconstruction and dream movie…

…For visual imagery, software needs to be trained on awake brain patterns gathered from individual and image databases…

…For this project, we plan to utilize experienced lucid dreamers as subjects and train these subjects in a set of specific dream scenarios, i.e. visualization, body movements and speaking both when awake and when dreaming…If successful with this approach, the software training cycles for imagery and phoneme decoding can be reduced and the imagery recorded more personal and specific.

…As part of Cloud X, we also plan on producing a short documentary about the project, a “making of” film, in this case on the creation of the first movie from a dream…

…Our project lead, Daniel Oldis, is an independent dream researcher and author of The Lucid Dream Manifesto. His work has been featured by Forbes, CNN, Psychology Today, the Huffington Post, Fox Networks, Coast-To-Coast AM, CBS Radio, Australian Broadcasting, the Orange County Register, Dreamtime magazine and other media…” – Go Fund Me – Cloud X – The Dream Movie

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“A Brief Synopsis Of The History And Characters Of The Gateway Project” – reddit – by u/SuperFestigio
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6d0nys/a_brief_synopsis_of_the_history_and_characters_of/

“Analysis And Assessment Of The Gateway Experience” – CIA Library – Declassified – https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5

The Monroe Institute – Hemi-Sync & Sam Tech – https://www.monroeinstitute.org/node/2519

“Hemi-Sync is a trademarked brand name for a patented process used to create audio patterns containing binaural beats, which are commercialized in the form of audio CDs. Interstate Industries Inc., created by Hemi-Sync founder Robert Monroe, is the owner of the Hemi-Sync technology.” – Wikipedia

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…Horowitz said the third generation will work just by monitoring eyelid movement in sleeping subjects.“ – Motherboard – https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywxjvg/steel-ball-control-dreams-dormio-mit-hypnagogia

“We initiate automatic audio recording alongside interruption, allowing users to speak their dreams in semi-lucid states, not waking themselves up entirely to issue reports…

…The technology that drives Dormio is open source. That means the software for our biosignal tracking is on Github. ..And Tomás, who led that build, wrote about it step by step here. You can, for now, build yourself one. – Media – https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/sleep-creativity/overview/#faq-is-this-dreaming-what-is-stage-1-sleep

“HYPNAGOGIA, also referred to as “hypnagogic hallucinations”, is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep… Mental phenomena that may occur during this “threshold consciousness” phase include lucid thought, lucid dreaming, hallucinations and, sleep paralysis.” – Wikipedia

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

Dormio: Interfacing with DreamsAdam Haar Horowitz, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Cynthia Breazeal, Pattie MaesCHI ’18:…

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“The Monroe Institute (TMI) provides experiential education programs facilitating the personal exploration of human consciousness…”

“In 2008, The Monroe Institute began to investigate a complementary method of producing the consciousness altering effects…

…Rather than binaural beating to achieve its effect, Spatial Angle Modulation (SAM) uses a single frequency tone…

…The greater the quantum coherence quotient, the more non-local awareness emerges or what one might call experiential quantum entanglement, the gate key to non-local awareness…

… We believe that the objective evidence for SAM’s effectiveness in facilitating enhanced states of awareness will be shown in ongoing studies of gamma synchrony as an electrophysiological correlate of consciousness itself.” –  The Monroe Institute – http://www.monroeinstituteuk.org/spatial-angle-modulaton-sam/

“It’s supposed to help get you in altered states of consciousness…They’re interested in states that correlate with gamma waves (above beta frequencies).” – https://astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_consciousness/anybody_heard_of_spatial_angle_modulation_monroe_institute-t36339.0.html

“Another way to picture all this…is that with the SAM quantum mind technology we will be able to alter the frame exposure rate for perceived local reality, the interlude between frames (when you are entangled with all space/time), and the exposure period for both perspectives…” – Restless Soma – Tributary – July 19, 2011 – http://restlesssoma.com.au/restlesssoma/index.php?topic=2666.0

“…Using stereo headphones or speakers, the spatial angle of the apparent sound source moves more rapidly than the brain can process as a Doppler shift anomaly. As a result, the brain produces a modulation or change in the tone – a tremolo effect similar to binaural beating. It is this tremolo effect coupled with the size and orientation of the movement arc produced that give SAM its ability to influence regional brain activity and changes in states of consciousness…” – F. Holmes (Skip) Atwater – IRVA 2012 – Quantum Mind RV with Spatial Angle Modulation – http://www.irva.org/conferences/speakers/atwater.html

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“The difference in cognition between the two types of dreaming suggests that lucid dreaming occurs when the frontal parts of the sleeper’s brain — which are normally “off-line” during REM sleep — click back in, bringing back self-consciousness. However, the back parts, which process sensations, are not synced up with the wide awake frontal cortex. So instead of taking in information from the outside world, they remain closed off in the word of the dream, creating a virtual world as convincing as the one outside.”

The Huffington Post – By Rayleigh Ping-Ying Chiang, M.D., Shu-Hui Tsai, Ph.D., Rita Carter (The Huffington Post, 02/05/2014)  

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“Could we one day heal the mind by taking control of our dreams?…

…Brain regions involved in meta-cognition are among the most activated in lucid dreaming…

…In principle, lucid dreaming may be a powerful tool for promoting insight and emotional change, as one gains moment-by-moment conscious access to the workings of the mind – including suppressed feelings. This may even offer a way to work with issues such as addiction, just as a hypnotherapist may approach a nicotine addiction by suggesting a conscious intent to the subconscious mind…” – July 14, 2016 – Adhip Rawal – Lecturer In Psychology, University of Sussex – theconversation.com/could-we-one-day-heal-the-mind-by-taking-control-of-our-dreams-60886 …

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…Sights

Among the more commonly reported,^[9][10] and more thoroughly researched, sensory features of hypnagogia are phosphenes which can manifest as seemingly random speckles, lines or geometrical patterns, including form constants, or as figurative (representational) images.

Tetris effect

People who have spent a long time at some repetitive activity before sleep, in particular one that is new to them, may find that it dominates their imagery as they grow drowsy, a tendency dubbed the Tetris effect. This effect has even been observed in amnesiacs who otherwise have no memory of the original activity…

Sounds

Hypnagogic hallucinations are often auditory or have an auditory component. Like the visuals, hypnagogic sounds vary in intensity from faint impressions to loud noises, like knocking and crash and bangs (exploding head syndrome). 

Sleep paralysis

Humming, roaring, hissing, rushing, zapping, and buzzing noises are frequent in conjunction with sleep paralysis. This happens when the REM atonia sets in sooner than usual, before the person is fully asleep, or persists longer than usual, after the person has (in other respects) fully awoken.^[15] 

Other sensations

Gustatory, olfactory and thermal sensations in hypnagogia have all been reported, as well as tactile sensations (including those kinds classed as paresthesia or formication). 

Cognitive and affective phenomena

…something that you agreed with in a state of Hypnagogia may seem completely ridiculous to you in an awake state. Hypnagogia may involve a “loosening of ego boundaries … openness, sensitivity.., Subjects are more receptive in the hypnagogic state to suggestion from an experimenter than at other times, and readily incorporate external stimuli into hypnagogic trains of thought and subsequent dreams. he alpha wave stage and later in theta.” –  Wikipedia

Below are excerpts from an interesting article – “Hypnagogic Hallucinations: Causes, Types, & Treatment” in Mental Health Daily.

“…During hypnagogic hallucinations, it is believed that brain waves transition from fast-paced, high frequency waves to slower-paced, low frequency waves…

…If a person wants to extend the hypnagogic hallucinatory state, they’ll typically increase theta frequencies…

..Pineal DMT: Due to the fact that hypnagogic hallucinations have been associated with paranormal phenomena, some have speculated that the brain releases DMT (dimethyltryptamine) via the pineal gland. ..

– mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/05/16/hypnagogic-hallucinations-causes-types-treatment/ … 

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“Because of my lucid dream experiments, I have engaged directly this unseen awareness, and view or listen to its response, and see its knowledge, wisdom and creativity (which I illuminate in my first book..” – Lucid Advice – The Awareness Behind The Dream – Robert Waggoner – http://www.lucidadvice.com/articles/the-awareness-behind-the-dream/

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Have You Ever Asked Your Lucid Dream ‘Self’ Questions And Gotten Answers?

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…It often appears wise and all-knowing, offering helpful insights into waking life problems or whatever question is posed by the lucid dreamer…” – World of Lucid Dreaming –  Rebecca Turner

Click here to read Rebecca Turner’s article on how to communicate with your lucid self, 10 questions to ask, and much more:  www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/10-things-to-ask-your-lucid-dream-self.html

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Have You Ever Communicated With An ‘Unseen’ Awareness Level (Or Your Subconsciousness?!?) While Lucid?

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  “Michio Kaku on the Science of Dreams” – Dr. Michio Kaku summarizing the differences between a regular dream and a lucid dream, and how the pre-frontal cortex plays a role in lucid dreaming – Youtube – Big Think –

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“The Lucidity Continuum – by E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.
© 1994…

ORDINARY WAKING
…In waking physical reality (WPR), I usually have my identity focus and “center of gravity” in the thinking levels; e.g. feelings happen to me, and I have little direct conscious control over them…

ORDINARY DREAMING
…In dream reality (DR), my center of gravity shifts to the feeling level. In ordinary dreaming I have very limited use of my thinking aspect…

PRE-LUCID…SUB-LUCID….SEMI-LUCID…LUCID…FULLY-LUCID…FULLY-LUCID BUT POWERLESS…SUPER LUCID.. .” –  Click here for entire article:  – www.improverse.com/ed-articles/kellogg/ …

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Have you used it for the WILD technique?

“…Sleep paralysis is when, during awakening or falling asleep, one is aware but unable to move…During an episode, one may hear, feel, or see things that are not there.^[1] It often results in fear.^[1] Episodes generally last less than a couple of minutes.^[2] It may occur as a single episode or be recurrent.^[1]” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

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…Human brains are estimated to be home to a staggering 86 billion neurons…forming a super-vast cellular network that SOMEHOW makes us capable of thought and consciousness…”

The research is published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience –

Earth We Are On –  http://ewao.com/2017/08/22/as-above-so-below-scientists-have-found-a-multidimensional-universe-inside-our-brain/ –

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In your most intense lucid dreams, what percentage of the scenery and perceptions do you think are consciously controlled by you, and what percentage do you think comes from your subconscious mind (uncontrolled)?

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“Lucid Dreaming, Lucid Waking, Lucid Being…”  -A workshop to explore methods for developing enhanced Lucid Beingness in both waking and dreaming states – presented at IASD’s Tenth PsiberDreaming Conference, September 25 – October 9, 2011

“A “lucid waker” will experience both the physical and dreaming worlds
simultaneously to some degree…”

“…In lucid dreaming the waking self, dormant during ordinary dreaming, becomes activated and integrated with the dreaming self. In a similar way, in lucid waking, the dreaming self becomes activated and integrated with the waking self in waking life, making available an enhanced sense of Beingness, as well as abilities not available to the waking self normally…..A “lucid waker” will experience both the physical and dreaming worlds simultaneously to some degree.” – by Ed Kellogg, Ph.D….” – asdreams.org/telepathy/kellogg_articles/KelloggLDLWLBPDC2011.pdf

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by Beverly (Kedzierski Heart) D’Urso, Ph.D.- Paper at the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) Conference 2005, Berkeley, June, 2005 – durso.org/beverly/IASD05_The_Ethics_of_Dream_Sex.html

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