Lucid Dreaming and Creativity

Abstract

The most important qualification for my presenting this paper is my extensive direct experience of lucid dreaming. I have been dreaming lucidly since childhood. In my teens, until discovering Celia Green's book Lucid Dreams in 1968, I called these experiences "conscious dreams".Among these lucid dreams are hundreds in which I have done an experiment or made some observations. Fifty signal-verified lucid dreams and even two-way communication have occurred while asleep in sleep laboratories. Lucid dreaming makes it possible for me to alter the physiological characteristics of REM sleep, in particular the frequency and distribution of rapid eye movements.