The Luminous Night of the Soul: The Relationship between Lucid Dreaming and Spirituality

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Abstract

Lucid dreams, in which the dreamers are aware that they are dreaming, can be a source of spiritual and mystical experiences. This empirical study aimed to explore the relationship between lucid dreaming and spirituality, taking into account the role of mystical lucid dream experience, in an online sample of 471 respondents, 95% of whom had lucid dream experience and 65% were frequent lucid dreamers. The findings support the relationship between lucid dreaming and spirituality: spiritual transcendence was positively associated with both lucid dream frequency and mystical lucid dream experiences. Thus having recurrent lucid dreams and mystical experiences in them may foster spiritual growth, rendering lucid dreaming possibly a viable spiritual practice, especially within the secular context. However, the correlative nature of the present research does not imply causality and further longitudinal research confirming this is needed.

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Stumbrys, T. (2021). The Luminous Night of the Soul: The Relationship between Lucid Dreaming and Spirituality. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(2), 64–74. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.2.64

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