Quote Originally Posted by Oneiro View Post
They're all from psychology and/or psychiatry. That's not science.

That's the problem with their evidence: it's not scientific, reliant as it is on human statement (anecdote) and a very small sample size. Where are the replications? How many 1000s of them are there?

This pseudo-science is the very reason why mainstream science yawns and ignores.. and who could blame them?

I directly admit that most of the work is based on people's experiences, which are notoriously unreliable. However, much of scientific knowledge started out as a theory, many of which are difficult to test. Scientists are still trying to search for a conclusive marker, some evidence that could irrefutably prove that something measurable is happening in the brain when people lucid dream that is different from a normal dream. They've come up with some promising ideas, but lacking a basic health-need to prove lucid dreaming exists prevents it from being accepted as worthy of serious investigation by neurologists worldwide.

We just don't yet know enough about the brain to find the evidence.

But that doesn't mean it isn't real.

And what really matters is this:

Grounded in scientific method, psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases, and for many it ultimately aims to benefit society. In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a psychologist, and can be classified as a social scientist, behavioral scientist, or cognitive scientist. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior, while also exploring the physiological and neurobiological processes that underlie certain cognitive functions and behaviors.



Besides, why are we here if we aren't actually experiencing what we describe?

Just because it's anecdotal today doesn't make it not real. Many years ago some people had this strange idea that the Sun revolved around the Earth but it sure was hard to convince people...