\nIn my lucid dreams, I feel free to go\u00a0 wherever my imagination takes me (see Appendix 1: Definitions\u00a0 of Lucid Dreaming.) I take care to balance surrender and control.\u00a0 By surrender I do not mean \u201cgiving up\u201d, but rather \u201cgoing with the\u00a0 flow.\u201d Controlling my own reactions, or the action, characters, or\u00a0 environment in my dreams can indicate that I have reached a definite\u00a0 level of lucidity, but I can still have a lucid dream without control\u00a0 (see Appendix 2: Characteristics of Lucid Dreaming.) At times, it\u00a0 helps to take some control of the action in the dream – for example,\u00a0 when I want to carry out goals.<\/p>\n
I gain power by surrendering to my lucid dreams.\u00a0 Although I may\u00a0 still control my own reactions, I do not\u00a0 control what happens to\u00a0 me. For example, I do not automatically feel fearful when scary things\u00a0 happen. I can face up to them while they remain terrifying. I only need\u00a0 to remain conscious that I dream. This allows me to have less fear, to\u00a0 see more possibilities, and to see myself as one with the whole dream\u00a0 environment. With lucidity, I have more choices.\u00a0 For example, I\u00a0 don\u2019t need to change a monster. I can look it in the eye without fear\u00a0 and find out what it wants.<\/p>\n
Although I focus on maintaining awareness of dreaming rather than\u00a0 control in my lucid dreams, I do not call my lucid dreaming\u00a0 “witnessing” as such. I find myself fully \u201cin the dream and\u00a0 yet not of it,\u201d meaning that I know while dreaming that part of my self\u00a0 exists outside of the dimension of the dream. To me, witnessing\u00a0 would feel like watching a movie or a play. Participating in a\u00a0 lucid dream feels like acting in a play in perfect character,\u00a0 having all the character\u2019s feelings and consequences, while still\u00a0 identifying myself as an actor, and possibly the producer and director\u00a0 as well.<\/p>\n
I like to surrender to my lucid dreams and totally experience my\u00a0 emotions. For example, I pass into and right through fear. I find this\u00a0 one of the most valuable lessons that lucid dreaming has taught me,\u00a0 which I can apply to my waking life, as well.<\/p>\n
I will now describe some lucid dream scenarios, as well as life\u00a0 scenarios from my work in Lucid Living, where surrender has paid off.<\/p>\n
In my first lucid dream at age seven, I faced up to terrifying witches\u00a0 from recurring nightmares. (see Appendix 3: My Witches Dream.)\u00a0 Some lucid dreamers may have first turned the witches into something\u00a0 less scary before dealing with them, or merely escaped from them. I\u00a0 believe that my choice of surrendering to my fear, controlling only my\u00a0 reaction, and leaving the witches to do what they pleased, served as an\u00a0 excellent choice for my first lucid dream. I not only ended my witch\u00a0 nightmares, but learned to deal with the witches again in very powerful\u00a0 ways, as I will describe later.<\/p>\n
Since childhood, I have also learned to develop my flying skills in my\u00a0 lucid dreams. These dreams taught me that surrender, rather than\u00a0 control, often works best. Usually, I would find myself lucid in my\u00a0 flying dreams. I started out flying like a little bird, having to flap\u00a0 my wings to stay up. This could take much effort. As I grew up, I\u00a0 discovered that I could fly like superman, soaring effortlessly through\u00a0 the air. At some point, I must have hit some telephone wires, or some\u00a0 other barrier, because I fell. I soon realized that because I knew I\u00a0 dreamed, I could fly right through physical objects of any kind. I had\u00a0 fun flying through walls and even deep into the earth. Of course, this\u00a0 took some control.<\/p>\n
As I matured in my lucid dreaming skills, I could eliminate flying\u00a0 altogether by merely imagining where I wanted to go and have the place\u00a0 appear right behind me. Lately, I do what I call surrender flying.\u00a0 I lean back and let an invisible force pull me upwards from my heart\u00a0 area. This feels very ecstatic. It also often leads me to places of\u00a0 great peace and power, which remain with me even after I wake up. Again,\u00a0 I find value in surrendering to the lucid dream.<\/p>\n
When I first began to have lucid dreams with characters who have died in\u00a0 life, I remembered the value of facing my fear and surrendering to the\u00a0 dream. I learned to stay in the lucid dreams that I had of my teenage\u00a0 friend who had died and talk to her. It took me time to get accustomed\u00a0 to hearing her voice and not waking myself up because I felt scared of\u00a0 talking to a dead person. Finally, I learned to ask her questions, and\u00a0 eventually, listen to her answers. I felt very relieved to connect with\u00a0 her this way. Since then, I have regularly had lucid dreams of many\u00a0 other people who have died in life, including both my parents.<\/p>\n
In graduate school, I solved a \u201cwriter\u2019s block\u201d in a lucid dream,\u00a0 where I used both control and surrender. In the dream, I found myself\u00a0 lying in bed, with my desk in the wrong place. I became lucid and headed\u00a0 for my computer to start writing. I found that I could not move and felt\u00a0 paralyzed. Using control, I told myself, “This is my dream, and I\u00a0 can do what I want! ” I slowly made it to the desk. I looked down,\u00a0 and I saw that the chair seat had become \u201cthe pit to hell.\u201d Flames\u00a0 swept up, and it sounded and smelled awful! However, I felt determined\u00a0 to succeed. Holding my breath, I sat down, ready to get sucked into the\u00a0 pit. I did not change the scene, but surrendered to it. After I woke up,\u00a0 within a very short time, I finished writing my Ph.D. dissertation.<\/p>\n
Another time, I tried a mutual dream experiment of trying to find\u00a0 one of my students in a lucid dream. At the start of my dream that\u00a0 night, I saw a neighbor, whom I knew had died, and I became lucid. In\u00a0 previous dreams, I would see her and say, \u201cYou\u2019re dead!!\u201d and\u00a0 would then immediately try to accomplish my goal. She would get upset\u00a0 and say, \u201cI\u2019m here now, so talk to me!\u201d Unless I did, I learned\u00a0 that I would have trouble completing my goal. My need to control the\u00a0 action in my dream caused me problems. So this time, I first stopped to\u00a0 talk to my neighbor. Afterwards, I easily found my student in the dream\u00a0 and succeeded in my part of the mutual lucid dream experiment.<\/p>\n
Merging with other aspects of the dream demonstrates another great form\u00a0 of surrender and \u201cletting go of fear,\u201d as well. In one lucid dream,\u00a0 I found myself alone in front of a campfire. I took this as another\u00a0 surrender challenge and stepped right into the center of the roaring\u00a0 fire, directly experiencing any existing fear. Having fun, I decided to\u00a0 try eating the flames. Interestingly enough, they tasted salty.<\/p>\n
In another lucid dream, I appeared with nothing physical around me, so I\u00a0 decided that I would fly up and merge with the sun. I sped upwards like superman, accelerating rapidly until I heard a great sound about half\u00a0 way there. It sounded very extreme, yet blissful. I had merged with a\u00a0 black void. Although initially I had control concerning this goal, after\u00a0 a while I had to surrender to this intense experience rather than resist\u00a0 it. I knew I would get overwhelmed and would wake myself up if I\u00a0 didn\u2019t. I felt very lucid for the next several days in both my\u00a0 sleeping and my waking states.<\/p>\n
In my thirties, I had a life goal of getting married and having a\u00a0 family. In one lucid dream, I met up with myself at the age of\u00a0 twenty-one. She felt sad leaving her college boyfriend so she could\u00a0 travel and have a career. In the dream, I told my twenty-one year old self that I had done those things. I said that I now wanted a husband\u00a0 and children. She introduced me to what she called my \u201calternate\u00a0 self,\u201d also thirty-seven years old, who had married my college\u00a0 boyfriend. They had three children and now she wanted to divorce him. My\u00a0 twenty-one year old self and I decided that everything \u201cwas as it should be.\u201d When I woke up and wrote down the dream, I heard an inner\u00a0 voice, as if from a future self, who said, “Everything\u2019s perfect\u00a0 as it is! Surrender to the present!” I finally believed it.<\/p>\n
I trusted I would eventually find my perfect mate at the right moment,\u00a0 surrendering to the thought that if I viewed life as a dream, then my\u00a0 dreams would come true. When I met my husband, I completely surrendered\u00a0 to what became my most lucid life experience. I stayed in the present\u00a0 moment continuously, without fear, and with total trust. I remained with\u00a0 him and totally focused on him, while part of me observed our\u00a0 interaction. I believed in magic, while accepting whatever happened. I\u00a0 listened to him and reacted to him as truly part of myself. Married for\u00a0 over eleven years, I still see him as my perfect mate.<\/p>\n
In 1994, doctors gave my husband and I extreme odds against having a\u00a0 child. I decided to work on the issue in my dreams. I looked for the\u00a0 witches in a lucid dream, now thinking of them as my \u201ccreative\u00a0 power.\u201d Even though they still looked very scary, I faced my fears\u00a0 directly and spontaneously brought them into my uterus. Note that I took\u00a0 control by looking for them, yet surrendered by bringing them into my\u00a0 body, which I had not planned. Within a year, I got pregnant with my son\u00a0 Adrian, now nine years old.<\/p>\n
My mother died on Christmas morning of the year 2000, after a sudden,\u00a0 massive stroke and my life, as well as my dreams, became quite a\u00a0 struggle. I really had to surrender to both at this point. I resigned to\u00a0 taking my mother off life support and my dreams helped take me through\u00a0 my grief.<\/p>\n
A year and a half after my mother’s death, I needed to sell my childhood\u00a0 home. I wondered if I could surrender to this task. Spontaneously, I\u00a0 dreamed that I found the witches in the bedroom of my childhood home. I\u00a0 surrendered to them again, and they pulled me under the closet door\u00a0 where they came from. I merged with the witches and resolved the biggest\u00a0 fears of my childhood. In my dreams, I feared going with the witches. In\u00a0 life, I feared my mother\u2019s death. At last, I could sell the house, and\u00a0 I felt that I had healed quite a bit from my grief. In the next dream of\u00a0 my childhood home, I flew out the picture window like a powerful witch!<\/p>\n
Surrendering to my lucid dreams has often given me more power than\u00a0 control. However, I still try to balance the two, as one would balance\u00a0 the male and female, or yin and yang aspects of one\u2019s self.<\/p>\n
Appendix 1: Definitions of Lucid Dreaming<\/p>\n
With lucid dreaming you have awareness that you dream\u00a0 while asleep and dreaming. You may think of the dreamer as you,\u00a0 or your physical body\u2019s mind, although I would not say that the\u00a0 brain contains the mind. In a lucid dream, I feel more present\u00a0 than in a non-lucid dream, bringing my whole self into the experience. I\u00a0 know that I exist as more than my dream body and can identify the source\u00a0 of myself as outside of the dream or inside the dreamer.<\/p>\n
One can also describe lucidity as what happens when a dream\u00a0 character\u2019s mind connects with the mind of the dreamer. The mind of\u00a0 the dream character has expanded. The dream character can now remember\u00a0 and act upon the goals, memory, and thoughts of the dreamer. For\u00a0 example, your dream character can remember goals that you may have set\u00a0 up to do in the dream before you went to sleep. The dream character and\u00a0 the dreamer can then co-create the dream, although the dreamer may still\u00a0 have intentions not known by the dream character, even in lucidity.\u00a0 Therefore, we can see the value of both control, in helping direct the\u00a0 dream, and surrender, in accepting the unexpected.<\/p>\n
Appendix 2: Characteristics of Lucid Dreaming<\/p>\n
Some people never remember their dreams, some remember them awhile after\u00a0 waking up, and some remember them just after or before they awaken. Lucid dreamers \u201cremember\u201d the dream while the immersed within the\u00a0 dream. They do not necessarily analyze the dream or look for symbols,\u00a0 but directly and consciously experience the dream, shortening the time\u00a0 it takes to realize they dream. To me, lucid dreaming does not mean\u00a0 merely \u201cvisualizing\u201d or \u201cdaydreaming\u201d. I do not think of it as\u00a0 \u201cclear\u201d dreaming, or even \u201ccontrolled\u201d dreaming, necessarily, if\u00a0 you did not have the awareness that you dreamed at the time.<\/p>\n
I personally believe in levels of lucidity, which fall on a\u00a0 spectrum. I do not see lucid dreaming and non-lucid dreaming as binary\u00a0 states. In other words, we cannot call a dreamer merely lucid or\u00a0 non-lucid. I call myself partially lucid, if I merely remember to\u00a0 question if I currently dream. I\u2019d call myself definitely lucid,\u00a0 if I know for sure that I dream while I dream. I consider myself very\u00a0 lucid, if I can control or change things in the dream, not that I\u00a0 always do. Finally, when most lucid, I often do not experience a\u00a0 body, but more of a black void or a white light, where I have powerful,\u00a0 spiritual-like experiences.\u00a0 You can find my spectrum discussed in:\u00a0 “What I ultimately learned from Lucid Dreaming is Lucid\u00a0 Living” and a somewhat different spectrum, but more detailed one,\u00a0 in Ed Kellogg\u2019s paper:\u00a0 The Lucidity Continuum (see References.)<\/p>\n
Keep in mind that frequent lucid dreamers may not have much lucidity in\u00a0 their dreams, while occasional lucid dreamers may have a high degree of\u00a0 lucidity. Non-lucid dreamers also vary quite a bit. Some have tried to\u00a0 get lucid and couldn\u2019t. Others never heard of lucid dreaming, so they\u00a0 don\u2019t know if they could do it. Some really want to have lucid dreams\u00a0 and make it a struggle. Others just don\u2019t care about becoming lucid.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t feel that lucid dreaming really takes effort, but instead,\u00a0 motivation. One does not need to make lucid dreaming difficult. People\u00a0 may not succeed in becoming lucid because, for example, they don\u2019t\u00a0 start with simple enough tasks to perform. They see control as so\u00a0 essential, that they try to, for example, locate a departed loved one\u00a0 before they even try to do something normal, such as sing a song, while\u00a0 remaining lucid in their dream.<\/p>\n
Appendix 3: My Witches Dream<\/p>\n
At five years old, I remember having a series of recurring nightmares. I\u00a0 imagined gruesome witches living in the back of my dark and scary\u00a0 closet. In these dreams, I’d find myself quietly playing or just lying\u00a0 in bed. Without notice, the witches would sneak out and come after me.\u00a0 I’d scream and run through the house, making it to the back porch and\u00a0 sometimes down the back stairs, but never any further. I’d fall on the\u00a0 cement at the bottom of the stairs, spread eagle on my back, and just as\u00a0 they would almost devour me, I’d wake up. In an icy sweat, breathing\u00a0 fast, I’d be terrified of going to sleep again. For a few weeks, the\u00a0 witches would leave me alone, but, when I least expected it, they’d come\u00a0 back.<\/p>\n
After years of this same recurring dream, I’d find myself pleading, as I\u00a0 lie on the cement with the witches hovering over me, “Please, spare\u00a0 me tonight. You can have me in tomorrow’s night’s dream!” At that\u00a0 point, they’d stop their attack and I’d wake up. However, the dream\u00a0 still felt very upsetting, and I always hated going to sleep. I would\u00a0 lie in bed and tell myself that the witches only come in my dreams,\u00a0 while I lay safely in bed. I tried to get myself to remember this the\u00a0 next time they appeared.<\/p>\n
One hot, sticky summer night, at the age of seven, I felt especially\u00a0 afraid to go to sleep. I felt sure the witches would appear in my\u00a0 dreams. My mom slept that night on the living room couch, which she\u00a0 often did during hot nights. We kept the front door opened to create a\u00a0 breeze. So, still awake about two in the morning, I grabbed an old, dark\u00a0 pink, American Indian blanket. I put the blanket on the floor close to\u00a0 my mom, and I fell asleep.<\/p>\n
Soon, I found myself back in my bedroom, unknowingly in a dream. I\u00a0 noticed the closet door creaking open. Instantly, I recognized the\u00a0 witches and ran for my life. I barely made it through the kitchen. As I\u00a0 raced across the porch and down the stairs, I tripped as usual and those\u00a0 horrifying witches immediately caught up to me. Right before I started\u00a0 to plead with them, the thought flashed through my mind, “If I ask\u00a0 them to take me in tomorrow night’s dream, then this must be a dream\u00a0 now!” Suddenly, my fear dissolved. I looked the witches straight in\u00a0 the eye and said, “What do you want?” They gave me a\u00a0 disgusting look, but I knew I felt safe in my dream, and I continued,\u00a0 “Take me now. Let’s get this over with!” I watched with\u00a0 amazement, as they quickly disappeared into the night. I woke up on the\u00a0 floor next to my mom feeling elated. I knew they had left for good. I\u00a0 never had the witch nightmare in this form again. However, I would later\u00a0 create new episodes with the witches in my dreams and discover similar\u00a0 witch scenarios in my waking life, as well (see “Witches, the\u00a0 House, and Grief: Developing and Avoiding Lucid Dreaming” in References.)<\/p>\n
References<\/p>\n
“Illuminating Insights from Lucid Dreaming”, D’Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 Heart), Panel at the Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD)\u00a0\u00a0 Conference 2004, Copenhagen, June, 2004.<\/p>\n
“Lucid Dreaming, Lucid Living”, D’Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 Heart), Symposium at the Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD)\u00a0 Conference 2004, Copenhagen, June, 2004.<\/p>\n
We Dream NOW, D\u2019Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski Heart), Book\u00a0 in Progress, 2003.<\/p>\n
“Dream Speak: An Interview with Beverly (Kedzierski Heart)\u00a0 D\u2019Urso: A Lucid Dreamer – Part One, Two and Three”, The Lucid\u00a0 Dream Exchange, Numbers 29, 30, and 31, 2003 – 2004.<\/p>\n
“From Lucid Dreaming to Lucid Living”, D\u2019Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 Heart,) Paper at the Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD)\u00a0 Second Annual Online PsiberDreaming Conference, September 21 to October\u00a0 5, 2003.<\/p>\n
“Witches, the House, and Grief: Developing and Avoiding Lucid\u00a0 Dreaming”, D’Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski Heart,) Paper at the Association\u00a0 for the Study of Dreams (ASD)\u00a0 Conference 2003, Berkeley,\u00a0 CA, June, 2003 (Available as an audio tape from ASD.)<\/p>\n
“Lessons in Lucidity:\u00a0 Explorations in Lucid Dreaming”,\u00a0\u00a0 Waggoner, R., Webb, C., and D’Urso, B. (Kedzierski Heart,) Panel at the Association\u00a0 for the Study of Dreams (ASD)\u00a0 conference, Santa Cruz, CA ,\u00a0 July 12, 2001.<\/p>\n
“A Mom\/Child Dialog on ‘Lucid Dreaming,’ ” D\u2019Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 Heart,)\u00a0 Article in the Preschool Family Newsletter, Palo\u00a0 Alto, CA., January, 2000.<\/p>\n
Hidden Assets, Bryant, Mark,\u00a0 [Chapter 3: Reality and\u00a0 Lucid Dreamers ( includes D’Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski Heart)], New\u00a0 Leaders Press, 1998.<\/p>\n
“Living Life as a Lucid Dream”,\u00a0 D’Urso,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beverly (Kedzierski Heart), Bay Area Dream Workers (BADG) Presentation,\u00a0 Palo Alto, CA , March 21, 1998.<\/p>\n
“The Dreamer and the Dreamtribe”, Halonen, Arto, (writer and\u00a0 director), Documentary [includes D’Urso,\u00a0 Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 Heart)], A\u00a0 Mandrake Productions\/Art Films Production, 1997.<\/p>\n
“Living Life as a Lucid Dream”,\u00a0 D’Urso\u00a0 Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 Heart), Workshop presented at the Association for the Study of\u00a0 Dreams (ASD) Conference 1997, Asheville, NC., June, 18, 1997\u00a0 (Available as an audio tape from ASD.)<\/p>\n
Lucid Dreaming Meeting, hosted by:\u00a0 D’Urso\u00a0 Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 Heart), Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) Conference 1996,\u00a0 Berkeley, CA, July, 1996.<\/p>\n
“I learned to use my dreams to improve my life”, about\u00a0\u00a0 D\u2019Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski Heart), First for Women Magazine,\u00a0 Volume 8, Issue 26, June 24, 1996.<\/p>\n
“Lucid Dreaming”, (including D\u2019Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 Heart,) NBC’s Next Step, May, 1996.<\/p>\n
“A Lucid Dreamer: Beverly (Kedzierski Heart) D’Urso”,\u00a0 ABC\u00a0 TV:\u00a0 WLS Chicago 10 O’Clock News,\u00a0 May 11, 1995.<\/p>\n
“Lucid Dreaming and Dolphin Swimming”, Workshop, given by\u00a0 Heart, Beverly (Kedzierski D\u2019Urso),aboard a sailboat in the Bahamas,\u00a0 June 1993.<\/p>\n
“What I ultimately learned from Lucid Dreaming is Lucid\u00a0 Living”,\u00a0 Heart, Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 D’Urso), Presented\u00a0 at the Association for the Study of Dreams –\u00a0\u00a0 Lucidity\u00a0 Association Conference, Santa Cruz, CA,\u00a0 June, 1992.<\/p>\n
“The Lucidity Continuum”, Kellogg III, E. W.,\u00a0 Paper\u00a0 presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Lucidity Association in\u00a0 Santa Cruz, June 28, 1992. (paper available from author alef1@msn.com\u00a0 )<\/p>\n
“Facing the Witches”,\u00a0 Heart,\u00a0 Beverly (Kedzierski\u00a0 D’Urso), Autobiography Paper, February, 1992.<\/p>\n
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,\u00a0 LaBerge,\u00a0 Stephen, including Kedzierski,\u00a0 Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso,)\u00a0 Ballantine Books, New York, 1990.<\/p>\n
Dream Life, Wake Life, The Human Condition through Dreams,\u00a0 Globus, Gordon, Page 60\u00a0 [Kedzierski, Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso)],\u00a0 State University of New York Press, Albany New York, 1987.<\/p>\n
The Three Pound Universe, Hooper, Judith and Teresi, Dick,\u00a0 Chapter 11 –\u00a0 Chuang-tzu and the Butterfly: Dreams and Reality\u00a0\u00a0 [Kedzierski, Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso)],\u00a0 Jeremy\u00a0 P. Tarcher,\u00a0 Inc., 1986.<\/p>\n
“Stephen LaBerge: The Doctor of Dreams”, (including Kedzierski,\u00a0 Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso)),\u00a0 LIFE,\u00a0 October,\u00a0 1986.<\/p>\n
“Personal Exploration of Lucid Dreaming”,\u00a0 Kedzierski,\u00a0 Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso), Lucidity Letter,\u00a0 Proceedings from the\u00a0 Lucid Dreaming Symposium\u00a0 (ASD 1986 Panel), Volume 5,\u00a0 Number\u00a0 1, June, 1986.<\/p>\n
“The Representation of Death in my Dreams”, Kedzierski,\u00a0 Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso), Lucidity Letter,\u00a0 Dream Lucidity and\u00a0 Death,\u00a0 Volume 4\u00a0 Number 2,\u00a0 December, 1985.<\/p>\n
“Lucid Dreaming”, New Age Journal,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (including Kedzierski, Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso)), November,\u00a0 1985.<\/p>\n
Lucid Dreaming: The power of being awake and aware in your dreams,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LaBerge, Stephen, (including Kedzierski, Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso)), Ballantine Books,\u00a0 New York, 1985.<\/p>\n
“You can direct your dreams”, (including Kedzierski, Beverly\u00a0 (Heart D\u2019Urso)), Parade Magazine,\u00a0 February ,1984.<\/p>\n
“Physiological Responses to Dreamed Sexual Activity during Lucid\u00a0 REM Sleep”,\u00a0 LaBerge, S.P. , Greenleaf, W. , and Kedzierski,\u00a0 Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso), Psychophysiology,\u00a0 20 (1983):\u00a0 454-55, Presented at Asilomar Conference, Fall, 1983.<\/p>\n
“You’re dreaming, but do you know it?”, (including Kedzierski,\u00a0 Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso)), Smithsonian,\u00a0 August, 1982<\/p>\n
“Design your own dreams”, (including Kedzierski, Beverly\u00a0 (Heart D\u2019Urso)), Omni,\u00a0\u00a0 March, 1982 .<\/p>\n
“Discover\u00a0 the World of Science:\u00a0 Lucid Dreaming”,\u00a0 (including Kedzierski, Beverly (Heart D\u2019Urso)), Television Special,\u00a0 1982.<\/p>\n
“Two on the Town,\u00a0 A Day in the Life of Beverly Kedzierski\u00a0 (Heart D\u2019Urso): Lucid Dreamer”, Television Show, 1982.
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\nBeverly (Kedxierski Heart) D\u2019Urso, a lucid dreamer all her life, has\u00a0 done research on the topic since the 1970’s with Dr. Stephen LaBerge.\u00a0 She leads her own groups and workshops on Lucid Dreaming\/Lucid Waking.\u00a0 Numerous books, magazines, conferences, and TV specials have featured\u00a0 her work, which emphasizes living life as a dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In my lucid dreams, I feel free to go wherever my imagination takes me (see Appendix 1: Definitions of Lucid Dreaming.) I take care to balance surrender and control. By surrender I do not mean \u201cgiving up\u201d, but rather \u201cgoing with the flow.\u201d Controlling my own reactions, or the action, characters, or environment in my dreams can indicate that I have reached a definite level of lucidity, but I can still have a lucid dream without control. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}