LUCIDITY LETTER

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CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Editor                                                                                                                      2

Jayne Gackenbach

 

A.  NEAR-DEATH AND DREAM LUCIDITY

           Dream Lucidity and Near-Death Experience - A Personal Report

John Wren-Lewis                                                                                                        4 

 

What Do We Mean By Lucidity?

                      Charles T. Tart                                                                                                          12

 

“Dream Lucidity and Near-Death Experience”: A Lucidity-Meditation Analysis

                       Harry Hunt                                                                                                                17

 

Comments on “Dream Lucidity and Near-Death Experience-A Personal Report”, by John Wren-Lewis

                       George Gillespie                                                                                                       21

 

Near-Death and Dream Lucidity: Comments on John Wren-Lewis’s Account

                       Michael Grosso                                                                                                        24

 

Representation of Death in My Dreams

                       Beverly I. Kedzierske                                                                                               28

 

Near Death, Near Dream

                      George Gillespie                                                                                                        30

 

 

B.  OUT-OF-BODY AND DREAM LUCIDITY

 

Lucid Dreams and Viewpoints in Imagery: Two Studies

                       Susan Blackmore                                                                                                      34

 

Out-of-Body Experiences as Lucid Dreams: A Critique

B. Scott Rogo                                                                                                         43

 

             WANTED: New Mapmakers of the Mind

                      Robert Monroe                                                                                                         47

 

Comments on OBEs and Lucid Dreams

                       Stephen LaBerge                                                                                                      54

 

OBEs-Are They Dreams?

                       Lynne A. Levitan                                                                                                       59

 

Lucid Dreams or Out-of-Body Experiences: A Personal Case

                       Father “X”                                                                                                                62

 

C. A THEORETICAL MODEL

 

Distinguishing Between Transcendental Consciousness and Lucidity

Charles N. Alexander, Robert W. Boyer and David W. Orme-Johnson                    68

 

D. ARTICLES

 

“Dreams, Illusions, Bubbles, Shadows”: Awareness of ‘Unreality’ While Dreaming Among Chinese College Students

Myrna Walters and Robert K. Dentan                                                          86

 

            Dream Control or Dream Actualization?

                        Stephon Kaplan Williams                                                                                         93

                     

            Photographic and Cinematographic Applications in Lucid Dream Control

                        Kenneth Moss                                                                                                        98

 

E. BOOK REVIEW

 

            “The Mystique of Dreams: A Search for Utopia Through Senoi Dream Theory” by G. William Domhoff

                        Reviewed By Robert K. Dentan                                                                             104

 

F. NEWS AND NOTES

       

             Association for the Study of Dreams                                                                                 109

         

             Lucid Dreams Bibliography Update                                                                                  110

 

 

 

Lucidity Letter (LL) is edited and published by Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.. It was formed to enable a dialogue between professionals and sophisticated experients interested in the phenomenon of lucid dreams. These are dreams where the dreamer knows while he/she is dreaming that he/she is experiencing a dream. LL a published bi-annually with editorial offices at the Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 50614. Manuscripts should be submitted to the editor, in duplicate and double spaced. Subscriptions placed prior to April 1, 1986 are available for $20, $25 foreign. After April 1 add $5 to the subscription rate. Back issues from December 1981 to June 1985 are available at $1.25 each or $1.35 foreign. Subscriptions, change of address and inquiries should be sent to the editor.