Non-REM Lucid Dreaming

Abstract

As with Pierre and others, I’m not going to try to present a lot of the details of our study, nor defend what I think is probably the most unique and therefore most valuable aspects of the study I’ll be talking about. I’ve spoken elsewhere (Dane, 1984) about the general background of the full three years of study that we did on lucid dreamers, first with frequent lucid dreamers, and then with non-lucid dreamers. What I want to focus on today are the findings relevant to non-REM lucid dreaming in the non-lucid dreamer population that we used. So I’m going to briefly describe the study itself and focus on the non-REM results. I don’t want to put myself in the position, today, of having to defend the existence or non-existence of non-REM lucid dreams, so let’s just assume today that it’s an existing phenomenon, at least in the early stages of non-REM sleep, and see what the implications are. I’ll point out as I get to that point in the presentation where I think Stephen LaBerge has some good points, not necessarily objec-tions, but alterations, things that need to be checked further with respect to non-REM lucid dreaming.