LUCID DREAMING — DREAMS OF CLARITY

摘要

Although the concept of 'lucid dreaming' was first coined by Frederik Willems vanEeden, a Dutch psychiatrist, and introduced at the meeting of The Society for PsychicalResearch held on 22 April 1913, the phenomenon of lucid dreaming was already knownin earlier historical periods and its descriptions can be found in writings of Aristotle.However, modern lucid dreaming research was established only after LaBerge intro-duced his method for physiological investigation of lucid dreaming through eye signalsin 1980. Current attempts in the field are directed at defining the neuro-physiologicalcorrelates of lucid dreaming, an aim that still has yet to be achieved. One of the possibleapplications of lucid dreaming is in the field of psychotherapy where it is usually usedin treating nightmares. However, other possible therapeutic potentials of lucid dreamingare still in the process of being discovered and therefore constitute a fertile area for futureresearchers