Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D.

"Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience," writes Tarthang Tulku, "yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality." Lucid dreaming (dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming) is the magic carpet of such vehicles, and for more than a thousand years, the Tibetan Buddhists have used lucid dreams as a means of experiencing the illusory nature of personal identity and awakening to reality.

Lucid dreaming is not only an extraordinary experience; it is also a learnable and potentially rewarding skill. Recent scientific research has proven the reality of lucid dreams, and has led to the development of new methods of inducing them. This workshop will provide a brief overview of lucid dreaming, touching on techniques and technology for achieving lucid dreaming; a model of dreaming and waking consciousness; scientific research on mind-body relationships during REM sleep; and several applications of lucid dreaming—exploring consciousness, enhancing creativity, personal development and self-integration, dream yoga, and transcendent experience. Find out why Thoreau said "our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

Stephen Laberge, Ph.D. Director of Research at The Resonance Project

STEPHEN LABERGE received his Ph.D in Psychophysiology in 1980 from Stanford University where he researched consciousness, dreaming and waking, for 25 years. He has taught courses on sleep and dreaming, psychobiology, and altered states of consciousness at Stanford University, the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and San Francisco State University. In addition to his scientific writings on lucid dreaming he has published several influential popular books on the topic which have been translated into more than 20 languages. Information about his training programs and many of his writings are available on his website www.lucidity.com