Mindlessness and Mindfulness in Daytime and Nighttime Dreaming

Abstract

I have been interested in dreams since I was a young child and discovered for myself that I could become lucid in nightmares and so cure myself of them. Professionally, I was fascinated by lucid dreams when almost no scientists knew that they were "real." Lucid dreamersm, of course, knew they were real, and usually did not need any support forom scientific authorities for the fact that their experience was what it was! I say "usually," as we must not underestimate the power of authority to sometimes talk us out of the reality of our own experience!