Keith Hearne's Lucid Dreams, An Electro-Physiological and Psychological Study, his 1978 doctoral thesis at the University of Hull, reports the April 1975 experiment in which subject Alan Worsley signalled through pre-arranged eye movements while dreaming, providing early physiological verification that lucid dreaming, being aware one is dreaming while still asleep, is a real and detectable state. As a doctoral thesis, it underwent university examination rather than journal peer review, though its eye-signal method was later independently confirmed and became standard in sleep laboratories. Cite it for that verified physiological finding, which subsequent published research has corroborated.
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Keith Hearne's Lucid Dreams, An Electro-Physiological and Psychological Study, his 1978 doctoral thesis at the University of Hull, the top tier reflecting that its April 1975 eye-signal experiment with subject Alan Worsley was later independently confirmed and became standard in sleep laboratories, providing early physiological verification that lucid dreaming is a real and detectable state, notwithstanding that as a doctoral thesis it underwent university examination rather than journal peer review. NotesHearne's doctoral thesis reporting the April 1975 eye-signal verification of lucid dreaming with subject Alan Worsley.
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AuthorKeith Hearne
PublisherUniversity of Hull
Publication Year1978
Source TypeThesis
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Psi Phenomena, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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