Hi all,
I'm a PhD candidate at the University of Northampton and I am currently looking for individuals who may be willing to be participants in my research. Firstly, chances are only people who are living in the London/Northampton areas would be able to take part in the research. I thought I would just state this right off the bat, as the research design requires several face to face meetings with the researcher and I can feasibly only travel between these areas at the moment (unless some additional funding falls from the sky)
The study itself has ethical approval from the University of Northampton's Ethics Committee and this stage of the research forms the beginning of a three tiered project investigating the altered state of consciousness known as lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming has been popularised in the media in recent years but has had compelling scientific evidence supporting its occurrence for over the past three decades. It refers to the ability of an individual to recognise they are dreaming within their dream and from this realisation regain conscious awareness, act with volition and have access to their waking memories while remaining within the dream environment itself which now appears as real to the dreamer as waking life. Some individuals have been able to train this ability to the stage where they can reportedly experience Lucid Dreams at will and many methods have been proposed by researchers to cultivate the ability in people. These have been show to vary in terms of their effectiveness.
In the first stage of the project I am investigating several personality characteristics and perceptual styles and their impact on the efficacy of a lucid dreaming induction programme. Latter stages of the research are aiming to build on my MSc findings regarding the practical application of lucid dreaming for motor-skill acquisition and refinement, creative problem solving and other tasks.
I am looking for individuals who are over 18, have no previous lucid dreaming experience (or who have just experienced them spontaneously)and who generally get a good night’s sleep (no sleep disorders etc). Please message me on here or e-mail me if you think you may be interested in being a participant I'd love to hear from you and your thoughts about the project, I can also go into more depth about the project and what would be asked of you if you did choose to take part.
I am, among other methods using snow-ball sampling, so if you believe you know someone who may be interested in taking part please don't hesitate to inform them and I would be considerably grateful and happy to hear from them. The least anyone can expect for taking part is to develop a greater knowledge of their own dreams; there is also always the possibility of developing the ability to become a habitual lucid dreamer.
Thank you all for taking the time to read this. It's greatly appreciated and I hope to hear from anyone interested soon. Please e-mail me at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Best Regards and many thanks again.
-David
David Saunders
Psychology Lecturer & PhD Researcher
The University of Northampton
School of Social Sciences
Psychology Division
Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes
NN2 7AL
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