Lucidity and Reading: A German Lucid Dreamer’s Report

In the year 1938 there appeared, in a German academic journal on psychology, an article describing a series of twenty—two lucid dreams experienced by Harold von Moers-Messmer.In his dream life Moers—Messmer exhibits an unusually observant, objective, experiment—minded personality. Many of his experi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilmore, Edith
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Lucidity Letter 1983
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Online Access:https://journals.macewan.ca/lucidity/article/view/606
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Summary:In the year 1938 there appeared, in a German academic journal on psychology, an article describing a series of twenty—two lucid dreams experienced by Harold von Moers-Messmer.In his dream life Moers—Messmer exhibits an unusually observant, objective, experiment—minded personality. Many of his experiences are typical —the incongruous detail that alerts one to the dream state, the brightly colored environment, the prickling sensation (“like dipping one’s arm into a bath of carbonic acid bubbles” says the doctor), and the ability to fly.