Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input. Stephen LaBerge Read Quote
I’d say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what’s happening around us. Stephen LaBerge Read Quote
I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht. Stephen LaBerge Read Quote
It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being. Stephen LaBerge Read Quote
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It’s something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution. Stephen LaBerge Read Quote
Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams. Stephen LaBerge Read Quote
Dreams look real, but they’re in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine. Stephen LaBerge Read Quote
Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time. Stephen LaBerge Read Quote