Individual Differences Associated with Lucid Dreaming

Snyder, Thomas; Gackenbach, Jayne

doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-0423-5_10

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“…Eleven participants could be considered frequent lucid dreamers according to the terminology of Snyder and Gackenbach (1988) (lucid dreaming frequency is once a month or higher).…”

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Testing the involvement of the prefrontal cortex in lucid dreaming: A tDCS study

Stumbrys

Erlacher

Schredl

2013

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…Eleven participants could be considered frequent lucid dreamers according to the terminology of Snyder and Gackenbach (1988) (lucid dreaming frequency is once a month or higher).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Testing the involvement of the prefrontal cortex in lucid dreaming: A tDCS study

Stumbrys

Erlacher

Schredl

2013

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…reality [314,[357][358][359][360], which in 90% of dreams is experienced as a reality, not as a dream or as a hallucination [361,362].…”

Section: Phenomenal Spacementioning

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Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Fingelkurts

Neves

2010

Physics of Life Reviews

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Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how space and time dimensions are implemented in the activity of the most complex life-system -the brain with a mind. Brain activity is organized both temporally and spatially, thus representing space-time in the brain. Critical analysis of recent research on the space-time organization of the brain's activity pointed to the existence of so-called operational space-time in the brain. This space-time is limited to the execution of brain operations of differing complexity. During each such brain operation a particular short-term spatio-temporal pattern of integrated activity of different brain areas emerges within related operational space-time. At the same time, to have a fully functional human brain one needs to have a subjective mental experience. Current research on the subjective mental experience offers detailed analysis of space-time organization of the mind. According to this research, subjective mental experience (subjective virtual world) has definitive spatial and temporal properties similar to many physical phenomena. Based on systematic review of the propositions and tenets of brain and mind space-time descriptions, our aim in this review essay is to explore the relations between the two. To be precise, we would like to discuss the hypothesis that via the brain operational space-time the mind subjective space-time is connected to otherwise distant physical space-time reality.Key words: spatial, temporal, consciousness, cognition, operation, architectonics, EEG, field, metastability, physics, coordinative dynamics, self-organization, cortex.

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“…The most recent review of estimates of lucid dreaming incidence (Snyder and Gackenbach, 1988) distinguishes between lucid dreaming prevalence (the number of individuals experiencing at least one lucid dream) and frequent lucid dreamers (those reporting one or more lucid dreams per month). In summarising survey data, Snyder & Gackenbach report "conservative" estimates for lucid dreaming prevalence of 58% of the population with a further 21% of individuals as frequent lucid dreamers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Calculating weighted means with these studies omitted produces rates of 62% for prevalence and 19% for frequency. Snyder and Gackenbach (1988) do not report confidence intervals for their estimates which cannot be calculated via secondary analysis without information of the total sample size (Cumming, 2011). Of concern is the high variation amongst effect size estimates in Snyder and Gackenbach's review, which the authors attribute to methodological inconsistencies between studies and differences in sample characteristics, though they do not subject this speculation to any empirical test.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One of the potential sources of variability identified by Snyder and Gackenbach (1988) is an inconsistency in how lucid dreams are defined or exemplified when asking people about their experience of them; unclear definitions have been demonstrated to lead to participant error that can affect as much as a fifth of a sample (Gackenbach, 1988). Whereas Green and McCreery (1994) argue that lucidity is sufficiently defined as the dreamer being aware they are dreaming, Tart (1988) argues for the earlier conceptualisation of lucid dreams as presented by van Eeden (1913) which requires that the dreamer has complete memory of their waking life and is able to exert control over aspects of the dream.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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