LD for a paper on argument

Hello everybody,

I haven't posted in a few weeks because I've been busy with my second year of uni. I've been told that I have to pick a topic to write about. I thought it would be interesting to write about lucid dreaming. I've wrote papers on it in high school but this class is rather particular.

My paper need to be about a subject that has opposition, usually something political or religious, however, we can't write about politics or religion. I'm unsure of what I could write about lucid dreaming that is not completely broad and hasn't been proven in a sleep lab.

I told my professor that I would like to write about space exploration or lucid dreaming, and she said that a paper on lucid dreaming sounds great.. any ideas? :(

Thanks in advance,
Jared

It would make a good paper if you're really interested in it, and it's probably not a subject your professor is going to read a whole lot of papers on. However, your thesis would have to be about something that is arguable. Nothing comes immediately to mind, but if you get creative you might well be able to work out a topic that is arguable and substantial enough. What sort of length requirement are you working with?

Well, LDing has been proven, so there's not much you can do there. Perhaps some Inner Sanctum sorta stuff? There's plenty of people who don't agree with shared dreaming, astral projection and the like.

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Originally Posted by Indeed

Well, LDing has been proven, so there's not much you can do there. Perhaps some Inner Sanctum sorta stuff? There's plenty of people who don't agree with shared dreaming, astral projection and the like.

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The only problem with that kind of stuff is that most of the evidence out there either way isn't really in a form that would be acceptable to cite for a college-level research paper.

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Originally Posted by Supernova

The only problem with that kind of stuff is that most of the evidence out there either way isn't really in a form that would be acceptable to cite for a college-level research paper.

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Yeah, that's true. I don't know of any actual scientific studies on either of those things. Maybe one day...

The length requirement is at least 1,000 words, so I was thinking somewhere along the lines of 2-3 pages. The issue I was having, specifically, is finding a topic less broad than just "Lucid Dreaming" that is arguable and substantial. I wouldn't mind writing about shared dreaming but I've not had a shared dream before and I'd like to write about something I have some experience with. I'm a strong writer in class so the hardest part is always finding the topic on which I'd like to write. :P

You could write the paper on shared dreaming. Taking the side that it's probably impossible, assuming that's your stance.

Or anything similar to shared dreaming that's controversial and relates to LDing, like OBEs really being experiences in which your soul leaves your body, or being able to travel to different dimensions during sleep.

EDIT: You don't need to have experience with shared dreaming, OBEs, etc. in order to argue against them. If they aren't real then you couldn't have ever had experience with them, and arguments from personal experience aren't very credible anyway. Do research on studies that have been done on whatever subject you choose. Like with OBEs, experiments have been done in which some note is written out of sight, and the OBEer is asked to read the note while out of their body.

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Originally Posted by Dianeva

You could write the paper on shared dreaming. Taking the side that it's probably impossible, assuming that's your stance.

Or anything similar to shared dreaming that's controversial and relates to LDing, like OBEs really being experiences in which your soul leaves your body, or being able to travel to different dimensions during sleep.

EDIT: You don't need to have experience with shared dreaming, OBEs, etc. in order to argue against them. If they aren't real then you couldn't have ever had experience with them, and arguments from personal experience aren't very credible anyway. Do research on studies that have been done on whatever subject you choose. Like with OBEs, experiments have been done in which some note is written out of sight, and the OBEer is asked to read the note while out of their body.

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Of course. If I were against them then I wouldn't ever expect to experience them. However, I'd like to argue FOR something (in a postive way).. just because. XD I don't want you to say "You're arguing for being against blah blah." either. XP

I don't see why you would have to argue anything outside the realms of known lucid dreaming. Why don't you do something like is it possible to sustain another life in your dreams
or should morals be applied to lucid dreams
or is it possible to communicate almosty directly to your subconscious
or what effect does lucid dreaming have on your walking life
or should lucid dreaming be introduced to everyone, what type of benefits would it have E.g increased sleep, reduced depression etc.

I can think of plenty of ideas which can be discussed.

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Originally Posted by dutchraptor

I don't see why you would have to argue anything outside the realms of known lucid dreaming. Why don't you do something like is it possible to sustain another life in your dreams
or should morals be applied to lucid dreams
or is it possible to communicate almosty directly to your subconscious
or what effect does lucid dreaming have on your walking life
or should lucid dreaming be introduced to everyone, what type of benefits would it have E.g increased sleep, reduced depression etc.

I can think of plenty of ideas which can be discussed.

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If this is a research paper specifically, those wouldn't really be applicable. For an essay based solely on the author's thoughts, those are some ideas to consider.

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Originally Posted by Supernova

If this is a research paper specifically, those wouldn't really be applicable. For an essay based solely on the author's thoughts, those are some ideas to consider.

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Well I suppose you could take questionaires or you could involve other people to also try etc I mean what exactly could he prove in terms of space exploration.

On a side note, you could possibly write about how Ethanol is destroying America. Look it up. There is some substantial non-political/scientific opposition to ethanol. A short Google search will show you its evils if you aren't aware of them already.