Posts Tagged Allan Hobson

Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming

Posted by on January 6, 2011  |  8 Comments

Lucid dreaming research is growing up. At least, that is Allan Hobson’s take on the recent burst of scientific studies published on conscious dreaming. Once a myth of Carlos Castaneda, and then a topic guaranteed to instantly transport researchers to the margins of academia, lucid dreaming has become a hot topic for neuroscience and cognitive [...]

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Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming, New Dream Studies

Allan Hobson and the Neuroscience of Dreams

Posted by on January 7, 2010  |  10 Comments

The neuroscience of dreaming is a relatively new enterprise but has quickly become the major paradigm of experimental dream research today.  J. Allan Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard University, is the undisputed celebrity of this scientific outlook, and the author of several popular books on the topic.  Hobson, in his 30 years of [...]

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Filed Under: Theories of Dreaming

Lucid Dreaming: a Hybrid of REM and Waking Cognition

Posted by on September 18, 2009  |  6 Comments

A study accepted in the journal Sleep last month (but not yet published) claims that lucid dreaming should be not be considered a REM dreaming phenomenon but rather a unique state of consciousness (Voss, et al., 2009). Poetically, the assertion that lucid dreaming has elements of waking consciousness and dreaming has been made for [...]

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Filed Under: New Dream Studies

 

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