lundi 15 juillet 2019

The Spiritual And Scientific Connection Of Lucid Dream Meaning

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.

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, this belief states that when one is self aware of the dreamworld, then he or she is also aware that the physical world is also an illusion where the soils rest. If one knows how to extract the truth from the dreamworld, then he or she also knows how to seek the truths from the physical realm. One can actually say that these people have an innate, profound wisdom to them.

Now, this is somehow linked to some scientific research stating that people who can lucidly control their dreams have a different cognitive ability compared to most people. One of the most notable studies comes from the duo of Patrick Bourke and Hannah Shaw from University of Lincoln. Their hypothesis would be that lucid dreamers have a higher cognitive ability for out of the box thinking.

In order to test this theory, they studied sixty eight students from ages eighteen to twenty five. They all recorded their experiences with their dreamworld journeys in which they were then asked to solved some puzzles that were rather complex. The hypothesis was that the lucid dreamers could handle these complex puzzles better than those who do not control their dreams very often or those that cannot at all.

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.

Furthermore, the duo states that the people with this ability can take a look at a very complex problem and make it very simple by offering simple solutions, hence they could solve the puzzles. This is something that most people cannot really do. That is why lucid dreamers are known to be very out of the box people in general.

Now, if one would look at the definitions from the spiritual view and the study results, there is actually confluence. According to spiritualists, these people are truth seekers while according to scientists, they are problem solvers. In any case, both seek out the truth and can break down complexities with their self awareness.




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