Is Conscious Dreaming Real?

By Paul West


Lucid dreaming is true. Usually, the concept of having self awareness in dreams has already been reported around different societies in history. Rene Descartes, a French philosopher found that his lucid dreams used to be so bright and concluded that an individual's waking sensory faculties are misleading and cannot be authentic.

Meanwhile, higher self awareness and control over dream has been incorporated by monks from Tibet in their own path to clarify for at at least a thousand years. The aware dreaming idea is broadly accepted in both Western and Eastern cultures, thus keeping the global nature of the issue which is not dependant on any specific mystical interpretation or religious principles.

The conscious state has been reported in numerous forms both officially as well as scientifically. The initial moment was when Keith Hearne, the British parapsychologist, registered a list of established indicators of eye activity right from Alan Worsley, his assistant, in a conscious dream status under laboratory conditions. Essentially during his conscious dream, Worsley looked in various ways, for example, right, left, left, right, right, making his eyeballs to imitate the experience in real world. This way, he managed to interact in real time through the realm of dreams and also to the conscious world.

In 1983, Doctor Stephen LaBerge from Stanford University became famous as he written his adaptation of Hearne's research and from now on, he is the main researcher in conscious dreams.

A short time ago, a study made in Frankfurt, GE in 2009 at the Neurological Research laboratory proved a substantial improvement in the activity of the brain during conscious dreams and 40 Hertz frequencies range were registered using an Electroencephalography equipment in lucid dreamers in aware REM. This is far more superior when compared to regular dream condition (4-8 Hz, or Theta range) and maybe far more aware than normal (12-38 Hz, or Beta range). Increased activity was also noticed inside the frontolateral and frontal parts of the brain and these regions are classified as the linguistic thought region as well as other superior mental functions linked with self-awareness.

Through the above studies, it may be determined that lucid dreaming delivers the potential to recall waking commands and willfully respond when a person is conscious in the dream state. Lucid dreaming also creates a neural signal which is very active and certainly not associated with typical waking awareness or regular dreaming.




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