Saturday, July 13, 2019

Lucid Dream Meaning From A Scientific Perspective

By Catherine Thomas


When most people talk about lucid dreaming, they would immediately think of the spiritual aspect of the practice. In fact, it is interesting to note that the term in itself refers to clarity or having clarity while being in the dreamworld. To shed a nice light on the topic though, it is important to look at the lucid dream meaning from both a spiritual point of view and a scientific point of view.

Now, according to Buddhist and Hindu beliefs, the dreamworld is a place wherein one is asleep and moves by default without being able to control oneself. However, becoming more aware of oneself in the dreamworld, one then becomes more self aware as a person and has an ability to know the truth. With that, the person is becoming more and more in tune with the universal truth that everything is an illusion.

Now, one can actually relate this type of self awareness to his or her self awareness in the waking world. According to spiritual beliefs, those who are self aware in the dreamworld are actually also self aware in the waking world and have this innate ability to seek the truths of the world. One can boldly say that those who dream lucidly are actually gifted with natural wisdom.

Of course, there were scientists who did find this phenomenon rather interesting which is why many researchers also delved into the subject. Two of those are researchers Hannah Shaw and Patrick Bourke from the University of Lincoln. Their theory is that those who have this strange ability actually have different cognitive abilities and have a higher inclination to thinking outside the box.

Their study involved sixty eight students under the Psychology program from the ages 18 up to 25. They were all interviewed about their experience with lucidly navigating the dreamworld and then they were asked to solve some puzzles. The expectation would be that those who dream like this more often would have higher ability to solve these rather unrelated puzzles using out of the box thinking.

The results of the study showed that the frequent clarity dreamers solved twenty percent more puzzles than those who never dreamt lucidly or those who rarely did. The conclusion that they drew from there is that people who have this ability are more creative when it comes to seeking solutions than others. That is actually why this phenomenon happens more in children than in adults.

The researchers then added that these people are able to take on the most complex problems and make them simple. This is a cognitive ability that most people have a hard time acquiring. In fact, some of the methods that these people come up with are not the types that average people would think.

If one would tie this back to the spiritual implications of lucidly dreaming, both scientific and spiritual meet. In the spiritual world, these people are natural truth seekers while in the scientific world, they are complex problem solvers. With that, there is definitely a logical and deeper meaning behind this type of phenomenon.




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