Lucid Dream Meaning From A Scientific Perspective

By Catherine Thomas


Lucid dreaming has always had a more spiritual connection rather than scientific because it involves the practice of being self aware, which is a very common concept in Buddhism and Hinduism. The term in itself is synonymous to clarity which is actually what it really is, clarity while dreaming. While most people are more familiar with the spiritual implications, here is the scientific lucid dream meaning as well as an explanation with how the two connect.

Now, according to Buddhist and Hindu beliefs, the dreamworld is a place wherein one is asleep and moves by default without being able to control oneself. However, becoming more aware of oneself in the dreamworld, one then becomes more self aware as a person and has an ability to know the truth. With that, the person is becoming more and more in tune with the universal truth that everything is an illusion.

Now, one can actually relate this type of self awareness to his or her self awareness in the waking world. According to spiritual beliefs, those who are self aware in the dreamworld are actually also self aware in the waking world and have this innate ability to seek the truths of the world. One can boldly say that those who dream lucidly are actually gifted with natural wisdom.

Now, the science world has also tackled this phenomenon and has found some interesting facts that may connect it to the spiritual world after all. Two researchers from the University of Lincoln in the UK studied people who have dreamt lucidly and made some conclusions with the findings. Their initial hypothesis was that those who do have a special cognitive penchant for solving complex problems.

Their study involved sixty eight students under the Psychology program from the ages 18 up to 25. They were all interviewed about their experience with lucidly navigating the dreamworld and then they were asked to solve some puzzles. The expectation would be that those who dream like this more often would have higher ability to solve these rather unrelated puzzles using out of the box thinking.

When the results came out, it did show that those who often experience this phenomenon solved more puzzles by twenty five percent compared to those who cannot. The conclusion is that those who have this ability are actually born more creative and more complex when it comes to solving hard problems. Since creativity is found more in children, it is no surprise that children experience it more often.

With that, the duo further claims that these people have an innate ability to handle complex problems and break them down into very simple steps to solve them. This is a cognitive ability that most people have a hard time crafting. It would seem that these special people are really more out of the box with their methods than others.

If one would tie this back to the spiritual implications of lucidly dreaming, both scientific and spiritual meet. In the spiritual world, these people are natural truth seekers while in the scientific world, they are complex problem solvers. With that, there is definitely a logical and deeper meaning behind this type of phenomenon.




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