Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep? Susan Blackmore

Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep? Susan Blackmore Published in Skeptical Inquirer

I've posted about Susan Blackmore previously. I had the pleasure being introduced to her the  Basel, Switzerland LSD Conference in January 2006 by Stanley Krippner.

I found this essay about Lucid Dreaming  which she republished to her website to be well balanced and a deep exploration of the subject of "waking" dreams. Here is a one-paragraph snip from the piece:

The oddest thing about lucid dreams— and, to many people who have them, the most compelling—is how it feels when you wake up. Upon waking up from a normal dream, you usually think, "Oh, that was only a dream." Waking up from a lucid dream is more continuous. It feels more real, it feels as though you were conscious in the dream. Why is this? I think the reason can be found by looking at the mental models the brain constructs in waking, in ordinary dreaming, and in lucid dreams.

That's just one bite from the apple. There is a lot more in the essay linked at the top of this post.

Note: Image at top: Image ©iStockphoto.com/Renphoto by way of Here Be Dreams