Letter from the Editor - 2

Concerns with Lucidity Essay - Jayne Gackenbach - 4

Response - Stephen LaBerge - 8

Proceedings from the 2nd Annual Lucid Dreaming Symposium - 10

Session 1: What is a Lucid Dream: Psychological and Physiological Considerations - 10

Manifest Content Analysis of Sleep Laboratory Collected Lucid and Non-lucid Dreams - Jayne Gackenbach - 11

Dream Content Within the Partially Lucid REM Period: A Single Subject Content Analysis - Robert Price - 22

Flying Dreams and Lucidity: An Empirical Study of Their Relationship - Diedre Barrett - 33

Varieties of Experience from Light Induced Lucid Dreams - Stephen LaBerge and Richard Lind - 38

EEG and Other Physiological Findings - Stephen LaBerge and Andrew Brylowski - 40

Commentary - Ernest Hartmann and John Antrobus - 50

Session 2: Applications of Lucid Dreaming - 60

The Creative Process: Paintings Inspired from the Lucid Dream - Fariba Bogzaran - 61

Potential Effects of Lucid Dreaming on Immunocompetence - Andrew Brylowski - 65

Ethical Issues for Applications of Lucid Dreaming - Joseph Dane, P. Eric Craig, and Morton Schatzman - 70

Session 3: Transpersonal Implications of Lucid Dreaming - 94

Lucidity about Lucidity - Robert Dentan - 95

Lucidity as a Meditative State - Harry Hunt - 105

Dream Lucidity and Dream Witnessing: A Developmental Model Based on the Practice of Transcendental Meditation - Charles Alexander - 113

Distinguishing Between Phenomenon and Interpretation: When Does Lucid Dreaming Become Transpersonal Experience? - George Gillespie - 125

The Physics of Dream Consciousness: Is the Lucid Dream a Parallel Universe? - Fred Alan Wolf - 130

Concluding Comment - Stephen LaBerge - 135

Articles

Research Reports - 137

"Consciousness" During Sleep in a TM Practitioner: Heart Rate, Respiration, and Eye Movement - Jayne Gackenbach, William Moorecroft, Charles Alexander and Stephen LaBerge - 127

Induction of Lucid Dreaming by Luminous Stimulation - Stephen LaBerge - 146

Phenomenology: Personal and Theoretical Considerations - 147

The Dream-Art Scientist: A Sethian View of Dream Lucidity - Linda Magallon - 147

Sections

Book Reviews - 150

Paul Tholey and Kaleb Utecht's Schoepferisch Trauemen: Der Klartraum als Lebenshilfe - Norbert Sattler - 150

Charles Tart's Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential - John Wren-Lewis - 154

Letters to the Editor - 156

Mark A. Barroso - 156

Vincent MacTiernan - 157

David R. May - 160

Linda R. Reneau - 160

News and Notes - 161

Lucid Dreaming Bibliographic Update - 161

1988 Lucid Dreaming Symposium - 163