Finally, it may help to gain some insights into the nature of consciousness. Lucid dreaming can be used therapeutically as a tool for transpersonal psychotherapy or as a spiritual practice. It is argued that lucid dreaming is a transpersonal experience in itself, which can be mapped and explored, and also used as a gateway to facilitate further transpersonal and mystical experiences. The present article aims to renew the mutual dialogue by introducing the recent advancements of lucid dream research to the transpersonal community, discussing the relevance and providing some common directions for the future.
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Teachings from religious traditions around the world offer important insights for scientific researchers today who want to understand the full range of LD phenomenology as it has emerged through history.ĭespite the fact that lucid dream research and transpersonal psychology have common grounds, overlapping interests and a great potential to contribute to each other, the two fields over the recent decades evolved rather separately. We observed that while Abrahamic monotheisms (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) recognize dreams as a way to communicate with God to understand the present and predict the future, the traditional Indian religions (Buddhism and Hinduism) are more engaged in cultivating self-awareness, thus developed specific techniques to induce LD and witnessing sleep. Here we reviewed how these religions interpret dreams, LD and other conscious states during sleep. In the nineteenth century, some branches of the Spiritism religion argue that LD precedes out-of-body experiences during sleep. The Christian theologian Augustine of Hippo (354–430 AD) mentions LD as a kind of preview of the afterlife, when the soul separates from the body. In the Islamic sacred scriptures, LD is regarded as a mental state of great value, and a special way for the initiated to reach mystical experiences. In the Buddhist tradition, Tibetan monks have been practicing the “Dream Yoga,” a meditation technique that instructs dreamers to recognize the dream, overcome all fears when lucid, and control the oneiric content. Hindus’ manuscripts dating back over 2,000 years ago, for example, divide consciousness in waking, dreaming (including LD), and deep sleep. Lucid dreaming (LD) began to be scientifically studied in the last century, but various religions have highlighted the importance of LD in their doctrines for a much longer period.
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