Lucid dreaming verified by volitional communication during REM sleep
Stephen LaBerge, Lynn E. Nagel, et al. · 1981 · Perceptual and Motor Skills, 52(3), 727-732
This source is used as supports evidence across 2 linked claims and 4 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Classic sleep-laboratory study in which lucid dreamers used prearranged eye-movement signals to communicate awareness from REM sleep.
How this source is used on the map
Supports the reality of lucid dreaming as a measurable state while leaving spiritual interpretations of dream travel or insight as separate claims.
Citation record
- Authors
- Stephen LaBerge, Lynn E. Nagel, et al.
- Year
- 1981
- Publication
- Perceptual and Motor Skills, 52(3), 727-732
- Source type
- Study
- Map role
- supports
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.2466/pms.1981.52.3.727
- PubMed
- Recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
An interpretive overlay on OBE, positing literal travel through 'astral' space. No controlled evidence beyond the OBE phenomenon itself.
Lucid dreaming is established. Tibetan Dream Yoga and Western traditions claim it accesses something more.
Related evidence hubs
Psychedelic, contemplative, and out-of-body experiences and what they may reveal.
Psychedelic, contemplative, out-of-body experience.
Structured experiences during cardiac arrest and crisis.
The nature of subjective experience.
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Related sources
Reference for any claim involving the cognitive nature of dreams, especially claims that dreams are spiritually revelatory or anomalously predictive.
Shows that OBE-like self-location can be induced through multisensory perception, weakening literal body-leaving interpretations while supporting the reality of the experience.
Core neuroscience counterweight for OBE pages because it links the felt sense of bodily self-location to brain mechanisms.
Use this for the astral-projection interpretation layer. Pair it with out-of-body and neurological sources so the claimed travel mechanism is not confused with the broader OBE phenomenon.
Use this for the broad OBE phenomenon. It should sit beside astral-projection and NDE sources so the experience, neurological mechanisms, and spiritual interpretation remain separate.
Useful entry point for the well-established phenomenon; spiritual interpretations are a separate further question.