Comments on “Dream Lucidity and Near-Death Experience-A Personal Report”, by John Wren-Lewis

Abstract

Wren-Lewis’s near-death experience (NDE), whose relationship to his later lucid dreaming he questions, was an experience of “no-thing-ness,” a darkness (Wren—Lewis, personal communication, May 31, 1984) which he describes as a void. His is one type of NDE.NDEs reported by others may include visions and light without an experience of voidness (Lundahi, 1982). So what is questioned here is the relationship, if any, of void-type NDEs, rather than NDEs in general, to lucid dreaming. And as the experience of a void is not exclusive to the context of dying, since, for example, it is to be achieved in Buddhist and other meditation, we may really be examining here the relationship of the void-experience, rather than just void-type NDEs, to subsequent lucid dreaming.