ABSTRACT
One of the most radical examples of state dissociation occurs in lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming thus clearly illustrates that not only can borderline conditions produce interstate dissociation but that elements of one state can coexist with elements of another state. In lucid dreaming, subjects become correctly aware that they are dreaming instead of incorrectly imagining themselves to be awake, as they normally do in non-lucid dreaming. Young persons are more likely to experience lucid dreaming spontaneously than older ones. In lucid dreaming, the split is between the front and back on both sides of the upper brain. The good news for lucid dreamers is that their dissociation is functional and entirely reversible. Lucid dreaming constitutes definitive proof that major dissociations of the brain-mind can and do occur and that they have significant psychological consequences. The most important clue that lucid dreaming was a brain-localized process was the susceptibility of lucid dreaming to pre-sleep autosuggestion.
