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- From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- Subject: Re: A Place Between Regular and Lucid Dreams?
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 19:32:38 GMT
- Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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- References: <1992Nov20.201030.23085@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.201030.23085@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> csmcm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Mary C. McDaniel) writes:
- >...
- >At any rate, in such dreams there is never a moment at which I say
- >"I'm dreaming, and in a dream, I'm in charge of the situation and can
- >make it come out any way I choose"; and yet, I behave as if this has
- >occurred. My question is, thus, how should such dreams be classified?
-
- Partially lucid?
-
- >(Indeed, the way I learned to lucid dream, about 25 years ago, was
- >to repeat-- when I had a scary dream-- "this is only a dream" to the
- >point that the _next_ time such a dream occurred, I knew I was dreaming,
- >was in control, had nothing to fear.)
-
- The same holds for me, incidentally.
-
- >Is my interpretation of lucid dreaming wrong, or could there be
- >other categories of dreams? At least varying degrees of lucidity?
-
- I think lucidity is a gradual scale from nonaware to control, not an
- on/off bit.
-
- olaf
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