Thursday, July 11, 2019

Lucid Dream Meaning From A Scientific Perspective

By Catherine Thomas


Lucid dreaming has always had a more spiritual connection rather than scientific because it involves the practice of being self aware, which is a very common concept in Buddhism and Hinduism. The term in itself is synonymous to clarity which is actually what it really is, clarity while dreaming. While most people are more familiar with the spiritual implications, here is the scientific lucid dream meaning as well as an explanation with how the two connect.

When one would ask a Buddhist or a Hindu about the dreamworld, they would most likely say that it is a spiritual plane of illusions where the soul walks when the body rests. In this plane, one is actually on autopilot and is like watching a movie, not aware that he or she is actually inside a dream. Those who are self aware in the waking world are actually those who have the ability to know that they are in a dream and can thus control all the surroundings.

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.

Now, the science world has also tackled this phenomenon and has found some interesting facts that may connect it to the spiritual world after all. Two researchers from the University of Lincoln in the UK studied people who have dreamt lucidly and made some conclusions with the findings. Their initial hypothesis was that those who do have a special cognitive penchant for solving complex problems.

In their study, they interviewed sixty eight students ages eighteen to twenty five about dreaming lucidly. After they interviewed the students, they then asked the students to solve various puzzles that are rather complex and need out of the box thinking. According to their theory, the students that can control dreams will be able to solve more of these puzzles faster.

The results of the study actually confirmed their theory as the lucid dreamers were able to solve more of the puzzles by twenty five percent compared to those who could not control dreams. From there, they actually concluded that people with this ability are better at making solutions to complex problems. In a sense, they are actually more creative than most.

With that, the duo further claims that these people have an innate ability to handle complex problems and break them down into very simple steps to solve them. This is a cognitive ability that most people have a hard time crafting. It would seem that these special people are really more out of the box with their methods than others.

Now, tying this back to the spiritual point of view, one can actually see similarities. Spiritual beliefs would say that these people are self aware and actively seek out the truth while science would say that they are complex problem solvers. Both actually seek the truth and have the ability to do so through creativity.




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