Lucid Dreams o ? ? ? – A conscious dream. o Lucid dreamers’ lifestyle specifics study o A new approach to the body-mind question
Steven La. Berge “Psychophysiological Parallelism in Lucid Dreams” o Correspondence between dreamed and actual eye movements o Dream time o Voluntary control of respiration during lucid dreaming o Singing and counting during lucid dreams o Physiological responses to lucid dream sex
Eyes o A very high degree of correlation between the direction of gaze shift reported in lucid dreams and polygraphically recorded eye movement has been found.
Breath o Moreover, the breathing activity also has a significant correlation inside – and outside the dream state (p<. 002).
Brain Left or right? Or Both? o Integrated alpha activity was derived from right and left temporal EEG while four subjects sang and counted in their lucid dreams. The results indicated task dependent lateralization of alpha activity
Time o In a similar experiment it was shown that In all processed cases, time estimates during the lucid dreams were very close to actual dream time.
Sex o A pilot study with two lucid dreamers who reported sexual arousal and orgasm in their (separate!) lucid dreams revealed patterns of physiological activity closely resembling those accompanying corresponding experiences in the waking state.
Conclusion o Dream events and real events appear to have the same impact on the brain, o Which opens up a huge opportunity for Lucid Dreamers to progress via dreaming o A future study is aimed at revealing specific details of LD impact on an individual’s waking life
