Stephen LaBerge
Dreams (mostly lucid ones) reported by veteran Stanford researcher Stephen LaBerge, author of Lucid Dreaming (1985), Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (1990) and others.
His thought's evolved. His early books viewed dreams as a new space for scientists to explore and experiment in and take control of--like white settlers "discovering" "new" land, to the chagrin of the inhabitants, who kind of think it's theirs. Not as bad as Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, where a lucid dreamer runs amok, terrorizing others who he's sure are just puppets. But still problematic: early LaBerge apparently saw dreams as chaos with no purpose of their own; that was for the conscious to impose.
But in more recent years, La Berge has conceded that dreams have their own agendas; he urges lucid dreamers to show restraint, changing only themselves and their behavior, and using their dreams to ask questions, gain insight, and safely practice and build life skills. I still think he jumps too readily to the assumption that all dreams are unreal, private simulations. But he's hardly alone in that!
And I admire the caustic clarity evident in a dream-experiment like Say Your Name, where LaBerge refutes a claim that stood for decades, as a chain of dream-experts each failed to frame their hypotheses clearly, and got the results they expected--because they expected!
RELATED TOPICS: lucid dreams - rough contemporaries Stanley Krippner, William Dement, Ann Faraday, Gayle Delaney, Patricia Garfield - Montague Ullman - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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| BROKEN LEG: by R.B., 1970, a lucid healing dream I was hit by a car. Broken leg, ruptured spleen. Surgery. A few nights later, I dreamed I floated in a healthy dream body above my broken day body. I beamed health down... |
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| "GO TO SLEEP!": by A.L., before 1990, a peculiar lucid dream; who's the boss? Lucid, I explore a school basement, fly, face my naked self in a mirror. Then a woman with a gun appears. Threats turn to... flirtation? She says "Go to sleep!" & I do, to find myself in... |
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| THE HIGHEST: by Stephen LaBerge, summer 1982?, a lucid transcendent dream Driving down a country road, I go lucid. A gorgeous hitchhiker appears. I'm tempted, but I decide to try for something higher than a sex dream. The car takes off, climbs past religious symbols into a clear sky where I find myself singing a transcendent hymn... |
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| NO NEED TO ESCAPE?: by Stephen LaBerge, 1976?, a lucid advisory dream I flee pursuers up a skyscraper, go lucid, and fly away. Then I'm at a lecture; Idries Shah says "It's good Stephen learned to fly, but a shame he didn't realize he had no need to flee... |
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| THE RINGS AT TWILIGHT: by S.C., 1980s? an epic lucid dream of the future I lived five subjective years in the far future, with a future wife and child, even falling asleep and dreaming (nonlucid) dreams & waking into my lucid dream... |
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| SAY YOUR NAME: by Ouspensky pre-1931, Green pre-'68, Garfield pre-'74, & LaBerge pre-1990; dream experiments PD Ouspensky gets thrown out of lucid dreams when he says his name; Celia Green's test subject gets dizzy; Patricia Garfield carves her name and causes a dreamquake; but Stephen LaBerge frames a clear hypothesis... CAUTION: SLOPPY VERSUS GOOD SCIENCE |
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| THE SPINACH SOLUTION: by V.B., 1960s? & Madeleina 1980s?, two kids' lucid dreams At age 5 or 6, I was chased by a dinosaur. But I remembered how Popeye the Sailor got strong from eating canned spinach, so I created a can, and... |
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| SURGERY PRACTICE: by R.V., 1980s?, recurring performance-enhancing lucid dreams Nightly, in lucid dreams, I rehearse the surgery cases I face next day, and consistently finish faster and with better outcomes as a result... |
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| TRASHCAN ORBITER: by K.M., 1970?, a child's lucid recurring dreams At age five or six I spent six happy months flying nightly in a spaceship I built out of a garbage can. It had a glass bottom showing great views of Earth... |
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