부산대학교 도서관

The study concerns the characteristics of lucid dream figures appearing to represent deceased individuals. Twenty-eight lucid dreamers produced 80 lucid dream accounts containing such figures. Sixty-three were produced during the period of study (proactively) and another seventeen were contributed as accounts of previous experiences (retroactively). The analysis of the forced choice criteria or descriptors of the content of these experiences indicated the most common lucid dream figure to be a relative with whom the dreamer had a positive relationship spontaneously appearing in the dream, resembling the deceased before death but in a healthy state. The lucid dream figure is most often passive, although radiating warmth. While conversation was not a common feature for most of the lucid dreamers, the lucid dream figure appeared real and the encounter was experienced as meaningful and helpful. There were, however, a variety of responses for some of the criteria, which included a few cases where the content of the encounters were experienced as being evidential. The adepts at lucid dreaming attributed a greater reality to the lucid dream figures. Examples of the experiences are given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]