Dream Lucidity and Dream Witnessing: A Developmental Model Based on the Practice of Transcendental Meditation

Abstract

I will briefly review what we said yesterday at the symposium on lucid dreaming during the ASD meeting. Harry Hunt has been doing research on meditation and its relationship to lucidity. Jayne Gackenbach and I began a collaboration, at MIU and UNI in Iowa, to look at the same question. We have thousands of advanced meditators practicing the TM program at MIU in the Advanced TM Sidhi Program. Lucid dreaming, as it’s typically described, is, in my opinion, in a direction which has been classically described for thousands of years in various Eastern traditions, especially the Vedic tradition of India, as something called ‘Witnessing’.