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Explore the fascinating concept of how one's sense of self evolves during lucid dreams, from ancient Greek origins to modern-day research. Delve into the self as overlapping memories, a bundle of perceptions, a narrative structure, and socially conditioned interpretations. Learn about lucid dreaming, being consciously aware while dreaming, and the exhilarating experience it offers. Discover how lucid dreams mirror waking life and offer insights into the self. Embrace the Oneironic-I theory, where your lucid dreaming self is an extension of your waking self, with a continuum of conscious states and a self-perceived continuity. Dive into the world of lucid dreaming and let your dreams become you.
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The Oneironic-I A theory of how one’s sense of self continues and changes during lucid dreams.
Origins of Oneiros • The ancient Greek work for dream was “Oneiros”. • In Prometheus Bound, the ancient Greek philosopher Aeschylus called the art of dream interpretation “Oneiromancy”. • LaBerge a modern day lucid dream researcher calls explorers of the dream state “Oneironauts”.
Most writers focus on the “self-concept”, “self-esteem”, personality traits or the self in a reflective, subjective manner. Sense of self as overlapping memories. Sense of self as a bundle of perceptions. Sense of self as a narrative structure and story. Sense of self as a collage of socially conditioned intepretations. What is Self? .
Dan’s working definition of an Oneironic-I or self • Derived “duplex notion of the self” from William James and George Herbert Mead. • with the “I”, the self as observer, AND • with the “me”, the self as the observations of that observer.
Lucid dreaming is… • Being able to consciously recognize that you are dreaming while you are dreaming • Once aware you are dreaming, acting to consciously control and change the context & characters of the dream in real time • And why? Its an exhilarating experience, travel to exotic locations, meet interesting people, do things you couldn’t when awake
Yes, you are asleep when you are lucid dreaming! • LaBerge’s PhD dissertation (1977) at Stanford empirically verifies a dreamer can be lucid while asleep. • How so?
The researchers say…. • Green (1968) - lucid dreams are accurate imitations of waking life. • LaBerge (1988) - dreaming of doing something is equivalent to actually doing it. • Moffitt (1988) - we dream to find out who we are. • Wolf (1994) - we dream so that a sense of “I” manifests.
Your lucid dreaming self is an extension of your waking self. Lucid dream research suggests that one’s sense of self extends across a continuum of conscious states. In lucid dreams you have: a self-concept, reflexivity, memories, perceptions, narratives structures and socially constructed realities
And so The Oneironic-I is…. • a self-perceived continuity in the sameness of the person, The “I”, the lucid dream OBSERVER. • a self-perceived continuity in the person’s self attributes, The “Me”, the lucid dream OBSERVATIONS.
