Personal Exploration of Lucid Dreaming

Abstract

This panel discussion will begin with a presentation of personal experiences with lucid dreaming. These are by people who have had many of these dreams, have kept records of them, and have, I believe, much of interest to tell us. However, before we hear from them, I would like to make a remark about dreaming and the important con-tribution personal experiences can make. If you think about it, you may wonder where we actually begin to know the things we know about lucid dreams. Well, it happened that there were people like the Marquis d’Hervey de Saint-Denys and Frederik Van Eden who made a project of discovering what could be done with lucid dreaming. They made entire studies of lucid dreams, and from them we have learned many things that could be very important. We still have much to learn about the phenomenology of lucid dreaming, and individual explorers can contribute as much as the pioneers of the last Century.