Hypnopompic imagery and visual dream experience

Journal/Book: Dreaming. 1997; 7: 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013-1578. Human Sci Press Inc. 187-194.

Abstract: Scannable hypnopompic lattice imagery sometimes reaches as far as the eyes can turn. Although these lattice patterns superficially appear to curve around the viewpoint, closer examination reveals that the visual image is flat over the entire scannable area. Moreover the lattice imagery and subjective experience of the head are found to form a spatial whole. Certain events during lucid dreaming demonstrate that visual dream experience, like the hypnopompic lattice imagery, appears within a visual field that is mobile within a larger scannable area. From ordinary dreaming to lucid dreaming to lying awake, there is a continuity of seeing, of scanning, and of the ''I'' who sees. The concepts of dream seeing, a dream body with eyes, and of an ''I'' who sees in dreams are examined.

Note: Article Gillespie G, 20 W 3RD St, Moorestown,NJ 08057 USA

Keyword(s): hypnopompic imagery; lucid dreaming; scanning; visual dream imagery

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