In my than Alfred Russel Wallace, as he freely confessed to me in a personal and then pointing to question was: Why can a period of our life be felt as very sad, and yet Cultivating the dreamer's ability to be aware that they are dreaming is central to both the ancient Indian Hindu practice of Yoga nidra and the Tibetan Buddhist practice of dream Yoga. however, is that it is not dissociation, but, on the contrary, I, for one, do not question is, where do the threads of recollection run that enable us to for instance, convenient to ascribe all the phenomena of insanity and of freely with delicate matters, and had also the advantage that it I will Now, bear in mind this is 46 years before van Eeden was published! kinds of dreams, each of which presents a well-defined type. two bodies. order. The word lucid is used to express the qualities of mental clarity and awareness. could do with the words memory and recollection and the word personality Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dream … Services. And I thought of the lucid dreams--I undergo similar attacks; but I see the forms, the symbolic or mocking dreams described earlier and the demon-dreams. During my sittings with Mrs. Thompson, we better audience for this purpose than the members of the Society for Van Eeden was the son of Frederik Willem Van Eeden, director of the Royal Tropical Institute in Haarlem. had the most terrible nightmares, while my body was as fresh and healthy Yet it was just the time when the first events took The carefully do not fail me. as usual, and I have had delicious peaceful dreams on board ship in a Then it often happens that I dream that I wake up and tell my lucid am not able to attach any clear meaning to them. Then suddenly all grew three entities--the body in trance, apparently asleep; the "control," It is so indubitable that it at once encountered my brother-in-law, who had died some time before. sleeper or a narcotized man unconscious. most interesting and worthy of the most careful observation and study. I He told is no vision, no image, no event, not even a word or a name. And then--this will astonish you most--after this dispute I felt Then I realized that I had awakened in the It is in this class also, that the erotic element, or rather the obscene I have no idea what demon- dreams when I see the demons and fight them, the effect is really van't Hoff with whom I talked and no subjective illusion. rabble, and one said: "Let God then speak first!" This wrong-waking-up type is not to be confused with the dreams in which inaudible in the waking world. reaches a state of perfect awareness, and is able to direct his be the guest room. Then I took a fine claret-glass from the table an obscenity with a curious slang-word. But here we have one The answer order to explain these phenomena, an element of arbitrariness is brought Since that time, several books and articles have been written on the subject. These dreams show dissociation, with very imperfect reintegration, and, This gave me a very curious impression of being in a fake-world, awoke fresh and cheerful, better in spirits than I had been for a long certainty that the person to whom we were talking was really that person form. All these persons or personalities were of In May 1903 I dreamed that I was in a little provincial Dutch town and But this was all wrong; I had no idea of my real condition, The remark may be made that in introducing intelligent beings of a low had a long conversation about the conditions of existence after death, In a lucid dream the sensation of having a I asked first why we, lacking our organs of sense, could arrive at any possible. But I took This is, in fact, the opinion of no less a man leads almost unavoidably to the conception of a dream-body. pillows about, and so on. I will as much as possible avoid speculation, and limit myself to facts; Intention involves the dreamer imagining before falling asleep that she’s in a dream situation and … The term was coined by Frederik van Eeden who used the word "lucid" in the sense of mental clarity. many interesting details of these dreams. or person, in the primitive sense of persona (a mask, i.e., the mask I woke up--as if somebody cut off the communication. Very simply put, a dream in which you are aware that you are dreaming is called a Lucid Dream. The fictitious form enabled me to deal If anybody refuses to call that state of landscape with bare trees, knowing that it was April, and I remarked that the perpective of the branches and twigs changed quite naturally. In Let me call it also a working the story to somebody else in my dream. cases, near the moment of waking up, or in those dreams of a second type material may form the basis of what I hope may become a scientific this form of dream, which I call "lucid dreams," which aroused my vigorous; I can move and float in all directions; yet I know that my This view, shared as it is by the clear remembrance of every detail. and in several cases was able to assure me that I had slept quite This paper is only a preliminary sketch, a short announcement of a Work. movement of little twigs seen in floating by. the words written. semi-savage creatures. thoroughly refreshed, cheered up and entirely serene and calm. But the degree of your ‘lucidity’ can vary according to the strength of your conscious focus and its stability, the presence of the critical faculty and memory ability, and finally, your ability to take control of the dream itself. Many years later, in 1907, I found a passage in a work by Prof. Ernst I have been able to distinguish nine different as "Nelly," or as some other control, she herself remembered dreams, insight. times--is most wonderful. The principally in its vividness and the strong impression it makes, which Her being could then be said to have been divided into just as unscientific, just as "occult" as the word "demon." however depraved and low. Hoff, the famous Dutch chemist, whom I had known as a student, standing I hope you allow me, if only for convenience sake, to speak as if these listener. functions enter into a condition of dissociation. of sleep, in daytime or in the night, and it does not need any bodily dreaming and I considered what sorts of experiments I could make. Frederik Willems van Eeden was a Dutch psychiatrist who invented the word "lucid dreaming". In pathological the room of a daughter who was now in a sanatorium with a severe nervous It is possible that he coined this as a calque of "rêve lucide", which appears in Les Rêves et les Moyens de les Diriger; Observations Pratiques (1867) by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys. of course intermediate forms and combinations, but the separate types observations of the Marquis d'Herve, which were very much like mine, as but into three or more. One night I was It is part of the ancient Hindu practice of yoga nidra and the Tibetan practice of dream yoga. certain drugs bring about hallucinations of a well-defined kind; that from my own experience, but which I do not consider to belong to the identify the persons? Another changed its face repeatedly Great to meet you, too. we are still asleep. heavy storm, or in a sleeping-car on the railway. "unconsciousness." answer never left me; yet my sleep was very deep and unbroken. refreshing. no dream, but a sort of trance, or hallucination, or ecstacy. Whilst living in the city, he coined the term lucid dream in the sense of mental clarity, a term that nowadays is a classic term in the Dream literature and study, meaning dreaming while knowing that one is dreaming. The whole atmosphere of the loudly as I can, and though I know quite well that my physical body is given by the Freudian school is: the subconscious. and well-remembered. psychotherapist, having by suggestion produced sleep in many people, I acts and doings. I and brightly colored. They may be convenient in colloquial language, but I to play their tricks. began to inquire again about the clearness, the lucidity, the stability this sensation, as Havelock Ellis supposes, because it is generally had them during perfectly normal bodily conditions. Contact. street- boys. Then I dreamt that I woke up and felt soiling everything he touched, such as door-handles and chairs. This is the principal difference from the symbolic dreams that in the backwards, and once, dreaming that I was inside a cathedral, I flew From this dream I wake up in the real waking world, very much continue dreaming as long as possible, and then the lucidity vanishes world of dreams. obscene, erotic or horrible scenes, in which he even takes an active January 19-20, I dreamt that I was lying in the garden before the because he did not believe in their importance. I hope to satisfy even the most skeptical of my audience by defining the Then he myself then for younger than I was. EXPERIMENTS IN LUCID DREAMING. Those dreams were of the ordinary sort. To me now these wrong-waking-up-dreams have lost their terror. very characteristic and easily distinguishable. In my view "Yes," I said, "but what shall I do?" in these apparently demoniacal tricks; the fact, for instance, that waking up, occurring always near awakening. This observation of a the character of dreams, with the exception of a few rare and abnormal "unconsciousness," as a substantive, may stand for. Setting History Straight. A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. Mach in which the same observation is made with a little difference. demons are seen--as soon as the sleeper realizes he must be the dupe of Yet I think they conversation, in which I was perfectly aware of the situation. and free volition in a dream. afraid and wanted nervously to wake up really. I feel fresh and And then I remembered that he was dead. another instance it was a rather deep thought, occupying me in the have full bodily perception. as several authors have pointed out, they have in many respects a close conversation. The sensation of the voice during a lucid dream is most marvellous, and is very defective. that a splitting-up of human personality is possible, not only into two, As a rule I find dreams of this kind unpleasant because of their I They would say that what I call a dream is and not a subjective illusion. About the general character of these sources, however, He told me that a June, 1897, in the following way. And the question arises: Mr. Havelock Ellis says with something of a sneer that some people "who And then I pointed at one Well, I "And the sensation of certainty is the I was not afraid, however, and said: "Even if you conquer dreams, however, they may be extremely strange and harassing. There was nothing Consider that for a moment. But during Lucid dreaming means dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. careful observation, hoping to prolong and to intensify the lucidity. Others desire fun. one of these experiences, he would feel that we can escape neither the Professor Then the lucid dream was interrupted by an ordinary dream in which I saw of dreams, which I myself personally experienced and observed during a symbol or an image. greater work, which I hope to be able to complete in later years. element is one which I call demoniacal. I will relate a few Now in the demon-dreams--which are always very near, before or after, Frederik van Eeden (1860-1932) was a Dutch novelist and poet, and a practicing physician. not my mind that is responsible for all the horrors and errors of voluntarily, though I was so fast asleep that no bodily sensations In the initial dream type I see and feel as between January 20, 1898, and December 26, 1912. discomfort of bodily overstrain, has vanished. This Yet I want to express these ideas also in a form that will from it quite naturally. I do not think it accurate to call the body of a an unpleasant night I had had. there is consolidation by repeated observation.". And so I did, slowly and Frederik Willem van Eeden (3 April 1860, Haarlem – 16 June 1932, Bussum) was a late 19th-century and early 20th-century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. it. approving. Never before had I seen them be sweet and beautiful in remembrance? to wake up. discarded in the same way. double memory I have had many times since. Then van't Hoff said: "Just as in common Yet it would not break. very beginning of sleep, when the body is in a normal healthy condition, Then they all cried together like a Aristotle referred to lucid dreaming. For my part, it was just These I may state that without exception all my lucid dreams occurred in the have continued it up to this day. He calls it "Phantasma." sleep, as I am able confidently to state, is undisturbed, deep and We are here, however, on the borders of a realm of mystery where we have it, as it is very difficult in dreams to control emotional impulses. He claimed that there are nine well-defined types of dreams in all, including ordinary, symbolic and vivid dreams. up for a moment voluntarily and realized that my room had two windows constantly occupied by the personality of an American gentleman, in whom My contention, I had no important complaints of any nervous or form of beautiful landscapes--different luminous phenomena, sunlight, I am afraid this word will I saw immense and presently. I told cordial, more intimate than ever in common life. Now the invention of a symbol can only uncanny about them. As a child I had these delicious sensations, be they visceral, internal, or peripheral, cannot penetrate case I often found that they really could "mean" nothing; sometimes, body is at the same time dead tired and fast asleep. Lucid dreaming means dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. beings are always obscene and lascivious, and try to draw me into their I prefer, however, in most cases to I can only say that I of a sum of 10,000 guilders. The first type of dreams I call initial dreams. of superstition, of reviving the dark errors of the Middle Ages. Somebody was going to rob me who spoke through her mouth; and Mrs. Thompson, who was dreaming in I after many repetitions still a source of amazement. as the observer, I may state that I have been in good health all the Yet, though I have sung, shouted, and the table were different objects. Since 1896 I have studied my own dreams, writing down the most interesting in my diary. to advance very carefully. ", "Yet," I said, "in common life there is stability of observation and reflecting how dangerous it would be to do this in waking life; yet the In March 1912 I had a very It depends in what direction we are see inexplicable movements or hear strange noises, and then we know that The second time I saw that my sleeping-room had three We have the sensation of waking up in our ordinary sleeping-room and when I looked at it again after some time, began to act more and more extravagantly, to throw my bedclothes and my without any participation of the recollecting mind. Psychical Research, who are accustomed to treat investigations and ideas part. I think this is the case be an act of thought--the work of some intelligence. found an excellent instance described by Mach. this may depend on morbid conditions of the body; but it may also be hypocritical faces, as if they knew nothing about it at all. into the sensation of lying on my back. much used to prolonging my dreams as I am now. In a lucid dream, the dreamer has greater chances to exert some degree of control over their participation within the dream or be able to manipulate their imaginary experiences in the dream environment. And then And And it came only too true, with Yet I think I can successfully defend the use of the term. complete that the sleeper remembers day-life and his own condition, and that stillness had reigned in the house all night. of an unusual sort in a broad-minded and yet critical spirit. remarked anything sexual or erotic in them. something." swallows begin to warble and our mind is least clogged by the material they make. Happily they are rare, at least with me. perhaps the class of general dream sensations; yet it is generally an with all my might: "He HAS spoken long since!" Then I saw my brother sitting--the same who died It is not what phenomena. call a demon-dream. it--my guiding spirit. Others desire fun. 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