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Exploring the world of lucid dreaming stephen laberge. Stephen laberge born 1947 is an american psychophysiologist specializing in the scientific study of lucid dreaming. Although plato wrote that the faculty of reason is suspended during sleep, his pupil, aristotle, was the first to state clearly, in his treatise on dreams, that often, when we are asleep, there is something in our consciousness that tells us that what we are experiencing is only a dream. Stephen laberges extensive laboratory work at stanford university mapping mindbody relationships during the dream state, as well as the teachings of tibetan dream. From principles of lucid dreaming to what happens after it.
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