Joseph Dillard Stephen LaBerge received his Ph.D. in Psychophysiology from Stanford University (1980). He has been researching lucid dreaming for well over a decade and is the author of Lucid Dreaming and Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. The Lucidity Institute is dedicated to the advancement of research on the nature and potentials of consciousness and to … Read more
Dream recall is a prerequisite to dream lucidity. It is generally assumed that you want to remember that you became lucid in a dream. Meditation enhances lucidity by cultivating the clear witness. Pre-sleep suggestion enhances lucidity by strengthening intention, particularly if those suggestions are vivid, repeated, and target specific aspects of the cultivation of lucidity. … Read more
No, you should not aim for learning how to lucid dream in a matter of days or overnight. Lucid dreaming is a spiritual skill, and you must be conquered in steps. Means, you must be ready to put in some hard work. There are many aspects such as optimizing your sleep, increasing mental & emotional awareness, … Read more
“But why are people interested in learning to be conscious in their dreams? According to my own experience, and the testimony of thousands of other lucid dreamers, lucid dreams can be extraordinarily vivid, intense, pleasurable, and exhilarating. People frequently consider their lucid dreams as among the most wonderful experiences of their lives. If this were … Read more
The Johari Window breaks knowledge down into four categories: “Known to Self” “Not Known to Self” “Known to Others” “Not Known to Others” When you put these four together in a grid their intersections create four different types of knowledge: Developed in 1955 by Luft and Ingham, the Johari Window has usually been … Read more
What does it mean to say, “To the extent that others represent parts of yourself, to abuse or manipulate someone else is to do damage to the part of yourself that they represent”? Do others represent parts of yourself? Yes, based on at least three lines of reasoning. The first is an inference you can … Read more
No one likes getting scared, whether during waking life or during a nightmare. The problem is made even worse when we get scared for nothing – the “snake” is seen to only be a rope, we had the time right after all and we’re not late, or everyone finds our speech or performance was great. … Read more
Stress is recognized as the number one proxy killer disease today. The American Medical Association has noted that stress is the basic cause of more than 60{be93f16b5d2e768a85ea81ebc8356f268811d3908838ae6233aa33d012b25ec9} of all human illness and disease. These include chronic fatigue, headaches, dizziness, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, irritability, anger, and panic disorders, decreased energy level, mood, and appetite, grinding teeth and … Read more
The Perspective of Chaos Theory From Transformational Dreamwork Think of how phenomena come trooping out of the Desert of Non-existence into this materiality. Morning and night, they arrive in a long line and take over from each other, “It’s my turn now. Get out! Rumi How can a Clearly Prepersonal and Irrational Process Produce Transpersonal Results? … Read more
If we were to take the point of view of space aliens, we might find it strange that a species would spend so much energy watching and learning about celebrities that they hardly know and so little on the seemingly inexplicable creativity that erupts from within themselves every night. Why isn’t everybody doing dreamwork? Reasons … Read more