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Should I do my ten page research paper on the benefits of lucid dreaming? The thing is, I have to have seven print sources and 3 web page sources. The web pages will be easy to find, but the in print sources will be more difficult. Please give me links to good hard copies of information. If anyone has a magazine on lucid dreaming or an article that is in print, please consider selling it to me (I could pay you via paypal).
Thanks
- John
For the print sources, you could use anything from the various books on Lucid Dreaming (Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, Creative Dreaming by Patricia Garfield, etc.) and you could even take quotes that have already been quoted from other books or sources from those.
As for whether you should do your research paper on it, I'm not sure. It depends whether you think you can get ten pages out of it, especially if you're just going with the benefits. What exactly is the project supposed to be on, and for what course is it?
Carlos Castaneda the art of dreaming, but he's widely regarded as a fruitcake. It's because he is an enormous liar, but there's useful and I think respectable theoretical stuff in there. Especially the part on "non-ordinary reality," non-agreement in dream worlds and so forth.Quote:
Originally Posted by anothrguitarist
It's for Advanced Compisition (a college course), and I think it's supposed to be double spaced. I might give examples of dreams where a benefit is used - this could take up some space.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raylin
I don't think you'd have any trouble writing ten double-spaced pages on lucid dreaming if that's the direction that you wanted to go. Dreaming is a very broad topic and there is a lot to explore, and so you could spend some time just on dreaming in general and then go into a more specific analysis of lucid dreaming.
A lot of us here, I'm sure, would be happy to help if you needed it.
you could probably just use a book about dreaming, doesn't have to be lucid dreaming.
try stephen laberge's book Exploring the world of Lucid Dreaming, Carlos Casteneda's book The Art Of Dreaming, Teach Yourself to Dream by David Fontana (VERY GOOD, just got it after reading Laberge's book). if its also involving dreaming in general get The Secret Language of Dreams (very in-depth) by David Fonatana.
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Originally Posted by anothrguitarist
Does the Grade you get matter to you?
It might be easier to argue that Lucid Dreaming doesn't have the benefits that the literature purports.
You can use the Printed Sources to show what all the exaggerated claims for Lucid Dreaming are, and then you can use your on line research to show that hundreds of people have great difficulty in realizing any of these promises.
Oh, have you seen this collection of Essays on Lucid Dreaming:
http://www.sawka.com/spiritwatch/tableof.htm
A particular favorite is Dr. Ann Faraday's "The Selling of the Senoi"
http://www.sawka.com/spiritwatch/selling.htm
Dr. Ann Faraday, in her book "Dream Power" was one of the first 'experts' to write about Lucid Dreaming, and she has been rather forthright in pointing out that she was repeatedly lied to and deceived by the growing Lucid Dreaming Community of New Age Gurus and Business Plan Commercial Exploiters.
So instead of just stirring the lies around one more time like everybody else is content to do, why not take the novel approach of telling the Truth about Lucid Dreaming.
Just read these pages carefully. We have all of the Promises well presented her. And then we have page after page after page of people who get none of these results. The Truth is here if you can bring yourself to take off your rose-colored glasses long enough to see it.
Thanks for all of the replies. I will consider all of your advice.
Would you please let us know if you do write the paper, and if so, what your conclusions were?Quote:
Originally Posted by anothrguitarist