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Lucid dreams : an elecro-physiological and psychological study

Keith M. T. Hearne 1978 University of Liverpool / Hull University

This thesis documents the first objective verification of lucid dreaming, where a subject successfully sent a pre-arranged eye-movement signal from within a dream. It proved that high-level conscious volition could coexist with the physiology of deep sleep, shattering the consensus that lucidity was merely a brief waking hallucination.

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