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Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self

Robert Waggoner's 2009 account of his lucid dreaming practice — arguing that lucid dreaming allows direct experiential access to unconscious material and that the dream environment has its own intelligence beyond the dreamer's conscious direction.

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Robert Waggoner

American lucid dreaming researcher and author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self — arguing that lucid dreams provide access to the deeper unconscious through direct experiential investigation — and co-editor of the Lucid Dreaming Experience journal.

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Stephen LaBerge

American psychophysiologist at Stanford who scientifically verified lucid dreaming — using pre-arranged eye movement signals to communicate from within REM sleep — and developed MILD and WILD techniques for inducing lucid dreams, founding the scientific study of lucid dreaming.

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