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person1990s–present

Robert Waggoner

Disciplines:
consciousness
parapsychology/lucid dreaming
parapsychology/dream research

Summary

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.

Core Contribution

Advanced the practice-based methodology for studying the unconscious through lucid dreaming — arguing that when lucid dreaming, you can deliberately engage with dream figures and environments to discover what the unconscious is communicating — extending the active imagination tradition into the dreaming state.

Notable Works & Achievements

Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self

Historical Influences

Stephen LaBerge C.G. Jung

Intellectual Lineage

USA

Contemporaries & Peers

Stephen LaBerge J.W. Dunne

Minds Influenced

Lucid dreaming practice Jungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self Lucid Dreaming Experience

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