Personality and Lucid dreaming.

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Date
22 January 2008

Event details
Lucid dreaming is the relatively rare ability to realise that one is dreaming while continuing to dream. While lucid it is then possible to intentionally control the dream. Lucid dreams occur during REM sleep, but are more prevalent during the later REM periods of the night. In this presentation various studies comparing frequent, occasional lucid dreamers and non-lucid dreamers on personality and attention measures will be described. These show that lucid dreaming is associated with waking life Internal Locus of Control, high Need for Cognition, high Creativity, and high attentional control on the Stroop task. The results support the Continuity theory of dreaming, which holds that waking life cognition, and individual differences in waking life cognition, are related to dream content variables.

Location
SEMINARS FOR THE INVITED SPEAKER SERIES ARE HELD ON TUESDAYS AT 4:10 PM IN ROOM 309, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Seminars will last for about 75 minutes.

Contact
Mark Williams: mark.williams‎@‎gold.ac.uk
or
Sally Marlow : ps604sm‎@‎gold.ac.uk

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