Methods of Exploring Transpersonal Lucid Dreams: Ineffability and Creative Consciousness
Integral Transpersonal Journal December 1, 2020 Fariba Bogzaran 1 citation
Lucid dreaming—being conscious while dreaming—can challenge habitual thinking and fixed beliefs, serving as a way of knowing. The practice extends into lucid waking, creating a cycle between waking and dream awareness. The author describes three research methods used over two decades to explore lucid dreaming and a specific transpersonal experience called Hyperspace Lucidity: experiences beyond time and space, nondual and nonrepresentational. The first was quantitative research on transpersonal experiences in lucid dreams, followed by a phenomenological study of some of the same dreamers, and finally an art-based public inquiry. These findings are now relevant as lucid dreaming gains attention in psychological and spiritual contexts.