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Celebrating 49 Years of Lucid Dreaming Science!
By Robert Waggoner © 2024
On the morning of April 12, 1975, Alan Worsley slept in a laboratory in Hull University (UK), hoping to make scientific history.

Around 8 a.m., after 30 minutes of dreaming, it happened. Worsley realized within a dream that he was dreaming.

Remembering that he was in a sleep lab, he recalled how graduate student researcher, Keith Hearne, asked him to signal his awareness that he was dreaming by moving his eyes left to right seven or eight times. This left-right signal would be picked up by the rapid eye movement pads on his eyes and confirm that Worsley was consciously and lucidly aware within the dream.

Incredibly, as researcher Keith Hearne watched, the electro-oculargram readout began to move from typical rapid-eye-movements (i.e., flittering all about) to a very measured and controlled, left-right signal. In that moment, Hearne reported:

“It was like getting SETI signals from another solar system. I was ecstatic, but
had to keep quiet not to awaken the subject. It was an amazing, mind-boggling, situation. I was looking at a communication from a person in another room who was asleep, 'unconscious', dreaming, yet in his own vivid world in which he was perfectly conscious and interacting with others.”

In this moment, the first hard scientific evidence for lucid dreaming appeared. Lucid dreamer, Alan Worsley, had signaled his awareness from within a lucid dream and researcher Keith Hearne had the ‘proof’. The modern age of scientifically investigating lucid dreams had begun!

So how did Alan Worsley ‘learn’ how to lucid dream before the scientific evidence existed?!

According to Worsley, he taught himself as a child a method to become aware and end nightmares. Writing in the Lucidity Letter, (1991, Vol. 10, 1 & 2), Worsley recalls:

“As far as I remember, I achieved my first lucid dream by a deliberately
developed technique, at about age five. I had discovered I could wake myself from frightening dreams by shouting, "Mother!" Knowing I had this escape route I became more daring; I deliberately allowed a dream of falling to continue, and nothing bad happened. I became even more confident and, having a lucid dream every few months, I gradually learned to recognize that I was dreaming even when the dream was not frightening and I did not have to remember it was only a dream. I also learned that I could wake if I wanted to. I became fascinated by the idea of being free in my own world.”

After years of exploring in lucid dreams, Worsley realized that he could conduct his own personal experiments:

“As I grew older I began to call these dreams "conscious" dreams. At about age 12, I planned my first "conscious-dream" experiment. It was to investigate how much detail it is possible to see in a dream. In the first lucid dream I had after planning the experiment I remembered to do it. I was standing in a door-way, the frame of which was made of wood. I decided to look for the grain in the wood. I discovered I could see the fine details of the grain and concluded that visual acuity was good in dreams. I have since realized that detail in dreams is not so much perceived as created. My conclusion should have been that it is possible for fine detail to be created in dreams.”

With these lucid dream skills in place, Worsley accepted Keith Hearne’s invitation in 1975 and launched a new era of lucid dream exploration by science.

Today, April 12th, take a moment to remember the collaborative contributions of a talented lucid dreamer, Alan Worsley, and a young grad student researcher, Keith Hearne, forty-nine years ago.

Remember how they opened up the inner space of lucid dreaming and provided that first scientific evidence to a skeptical world. And then take a moment to imagine all of the future lucid dream explorers and what new discoveries they will make, as they consciously explore the depths of the unconscious.

Happy Lucid Dreaming Day, April 12th!

Sources:
Interview with Keith Hearne by Rebecca Casale: https://www.world-of-lucid-
dreaming.com/keith-hearne-interview.html

And Lucidity Letter (1991), editor Jayne Gackenbach,
https://journals.macewan.ca/lucidity/article/view/423/313

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This was in the last issue of the LDE: by Sara Casalino
The Spirit Guide

I looked at my hands and saw they were wavy, and I became lucid. I was whisked away by a force and into the air. I remembered what I had planned to do in my lucid dream. I said, “I want to meet my spirit guide.” Then things began to change.

It was like a vortex opened up in the ceiling and a woman descended. Now we were all in some university-like classroom, like an auditorium. I was sitting in the front row. The woman had a table in front of her and there was a large screen at the front of the classroom. The woman began giving a presentation.... [visit www.luciddreamingmagazine.com to see how this ends...] ☺️

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Did you read this interesting article in the latest issue of the LDE? Here's a bit of it....
Lucid Dream Induction Through Meditation
By Kristina Kiehl © 2023

"When I got into lucid dreaming many years ago, I initially worked in the classic way with dream journal, reality checks and WBTB. I experimented for a long time and found that I got the best results with this combination. However, inducing lucid dreams this way was hard work and during that time I had a maximum of two lucid dreams a week, but I wanted more. In addition, a stressful everyday life has often mixed up my lucid dream training (especially the reality checks), so that the lucid dream rate collapsed quite quickly.

After some time, however, I noticed something interesting: I had been doing 20-30 reality checks a day for a long period of time, and these checks trained my ability to concentrate and - as the Buddhists say - the "one-pointedness" of mind. I've been meditating (intermittently) since I was 16 (mainly Zen) and I've also noticed that the reality checks changed my meditation. My concentration was easier to maintain, it became effortless and pinned to a point.

During this time I mainly practiced meditation with an object, my focus glued to my hara or heart chakra. The strangest thing, however, was that I increasingly felt a presence that I located just above my head. During my meditations, I had the impression that I was no longer concentrating, but that the presence above my head was "concentrating on me," I just had to allow it. Since at that time I could not find anything about this phenomenon of presence in the meditation literature, I did not pursue it, somehow dismissed it as imagination, however accepted it and continued to do my practices.

It was shortly after this time that Robert Waggoner's first book Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self found me and I took my first steps towards consciously "contacting" the Self in my dreams. In hindsight, I realize that my Self has been communicating with me all my life mainly through non-lucid dreams, but I needed Robert's book to finally understand. In terms of the sense of presence, however, it still took a while for the penny to drop. Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

Years later I stumbled across ...."

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Hi Lucid Dreamers,

Want to help a researcher look at the connection between 'electronic media' and lucid dreaming? Read on....

Hello,

My name is Jayne Gackenbach, PhD and I am an Emeritus Professor in Psychology at MacEwan University, in Alberta, Canada. I am also a past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. My research interests in dreams started with lucid dreams and evolved into how electronic media use are influencing nighttime dreams. Towards that end I am soliciting research participants to fill out a short survey telling me about a dream they had when electronic media was featured and answering a few questions about the dream and about their media use habits. Here is the web address for the survey:

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

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At the end of the survey there is a link to previous research on this topic and my other research on lucidity and its relationship to media use.

Thanks for you help.

Jayne

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Lucid dreamers! The free Lucid Dreaming Experience magazine is now up! Check it out at www.luciddreamingmagazine.com Robert interviews JM who has a powerful lucid dreaming healing experience from a traumatic brain injury. Another lucid dreamer gets inspired within a lucid dream, and writes a book. ☺️ Check out the tips and techinques too! Then share with your friends!

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