A Proposal: Can Lucid Dreaming Effect Immunocompetence?

Abstract

In developing a clinical model of mind-body relationships we are at an immediate disadvantage. Having evolved a cognitive understanding of mind and body as a dichotomous phenomenon, we bypass the variable of experience that the mind and body are a unity. In recent years psychological, neurological and immunological (collectively known as psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)), boundaries have been dissolving. Consequently, it seems prudent to dissolve the mind-body dichotomy in order to orient our current models and views of health and well-being towards models and views more congruent with experience.