Beyond Lucidity - A Personal Report

Abstract

In the December 1985 issue of Lucidity Letter my husband John Wren-Lewis described a radical and continuing change of consciousness following an near-death experience (NDE) which gave him a new perspective for understanding dream-processes, including lucid dreaming. In the same issue Charles Tart, Harry Hunt, George Gillespie and Michael Grosso used John's observations as a basis for discussing a number of issues which have been prominent in Lucidity Letter since its inception, such as the range of meanings which can be attached to the term 'lucidity', and possible relationships between lucid dreaming and meditation. My purpose in writing this present note is to describe a very unusual sleep-experience of my own in October 1985 (shortly after John's article had been sent off but before I knew of the other comments) which casts new light on some of these issues.