Reflections on 20 Years of 'Conscious' Sleep Experiences

Abstract

Over the past several years, Father "X" (who prefers to remain anonymous) has written a series of letters to Charles Tart (with copies to Lucidity Letter senior editor, Jayne Gackenbach) together with copies of dream diary entries in which he detailed his extensive experiences with lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences. Father "X" has kindly shared his correspondence and diaries with us, and in a previous issue of Lucidity Letter, we published excerpts. Recently, he sent us copies of his latest letter to Charles Tart and [the accompanying] diaries. What follows are two lightly edited representative diary entries describing his experiences, and an excerpt from his letter in which he summarizes his thoughts about these phenomena. Where our editing involves addition of or substitution of clarifying words, we have added brackets ([]).