Lucid Dreaming Research Paper
Uncommon Consciousness: Discovery Through Lucid Dreaming
Throughout history, scientists, artists, mathematicians, and intellectuals have made cultural and technological advancements based on observations or realizations made in exceptionally realistic, or lucid dreams. Individuals such as Salvador Dali, Thomas Edison, and Dmitri Mendeleev turned to their dreams for inspiration in their respective fields. (Dali, 27) (Bernd, p.p. 28-29) (Baeyer, 6) These exceptionally intelligent individuals made innovations by utilizing the dream world to observe problems from a perspective other than waking consciousness. In these dream worlds, the brain is able to conjure unique models of events or ideas without the distraction of sensory input. The brain …show more content…
Lucid dreaming has a profound effect on creativity in that it allows the artist to picture objects in new ways or recall particular interesting or unique …show more content…
Hobson’s subconscious projects his textural and visual desires in the form of the lobster, and Hobson notes that he gets pleasure from thinking back to the delicacy simulated by his subconscious. This synthesis of imagery based on the desire of the dreamer is the same mechanism used by Mendeleev to build the foundation of the modern periodic table (Strathern, 14) and Salvador Dali to create his unique surrealist art. Both Mendeleev and Dali’s dreams of discovery are projections of the spatial and sensory desires that the two individuals could not easily express in their most common conscious state. In these lucid dreams, the brain takes normal objects and gives them more dimension, portraying them in many different unique ways at once in order to create a visual that is pleasing to the observer.
In Feynman’s first lucid dream, he finds himself standing on top a moving train car, quickly approaching a tunnel. He ducks down so that he will not hit the tunnel and realizes that he can sense intense fear in his dreams. As he continues to explore the dream world, Feynman discovers that the sleeping brain synthesizes realistic colors, sounds, and tactile sensations. Scientist Friedrich Kekule also realized the importance of dreams and discovered the structural arrangement of the Benzene molecule in a lucid dream. Puzzled by the fact that the
Throughout history, scientists, artists, mathematicians, and intellectuals have made cultural and technological advancements based on observations or realizations made in exceptionally realistic, or lucid dreams. Individuals such as Salvador Dali, Thomas Edison, and Dmitri Mendeleev turned to their dreams for inspiration in their respective fields. (Dali, 27) (Bernd, p.p. 28-29) (Baeyer, 6) These exceptionally intelligent individuals made innovations by utilizing the dream world to observe problems from a perspective other than waking consciousness. In these dream worlds, the brain is able to conjure unique models of events or ideas without the distraction of sensory input. The brain …show more content…
Lucid dreaming has a profound effect on creativity in that it allows the artist to picture objects in new ways or recall particular interesting or unique …show more content…
Hobson’s subconscious projects his textural and visual desires in the form of the lobster, and Hobson notes that he gets pleasure from thinking back to the delicacy simulated by his subconscious. This synthesis of imagery based on the desire of the dreamer is the same mechanism used by Mendeleev to build the foundation of the modern periodic table (Strathern, 14) and Salvador Dali to create his unique surrealist art. Both Mendeleev and Dali’s dreams of discovery are projections of the spatial and sensory desires that the two individuals could not easily express in their most common conscious state. In these lucid dreams, the brain takes normal objects and gives them more dimension, portraying them in many different unique ways at once in order to create a visual that is pleasing to the observer.
In Feynman’s first lucid dream, he finds himself standing on top a moving train car, quickly approaching a tunnel. He ducks down so that he will not hit the tunnel and realizes that he can sense intense fear in his dreams. As he continues to explore the dream world, Feynman discovers that the sleeping brain synthesizes realistic colors, sounds, and tactile sensations. Scientist Friedrich Kekule also realized the importance of dreams and discovered the structural arrangement of the Benzene molecule in a lucid dream. Puzzled by the fact that the