Near-Death Experiences are Lucid Dreams, Experiment Finds - Yahoo! Contributors Network

<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br /><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFQfLhroSeHwWe-xLoqQ_54lQC4Uw&url=http://news.yahoo.com/near-death-experiences-lucid-dreams-experiment-finds-161001473.html"><b>Near-Death Experiences are <b>Lucid</b> Dreams, Experiment Finds</b></a><br /><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">Yahoo! Contributors Network</font></b></font><br /><font size="-1">By Natalie Wolchover | LiveScience.com – 4 mins 29 secs ago In a new exercise by a California organization that studies <b>lucid dreaming</b>, volunteers have been conditioned to dream near-death experiences, including the classic scenario of flying toward a <b>...</b></font><br /><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br /><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=dsFGl0F1d_Kq09M"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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The researchers say their experiment demonstrates that these heavenly visions must be products of the human mind rather than supernatural phenomena.

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What I'm more interested in is the fact that, by definition, the experiences are not "Lucid" dreams, as the dreamer believes they are actually experiencing the phenomenon outside of their own mind, and in some transitional stage of objective reality. So, I'm kind of curious as to their justification of calling such experiences 'lucid dreams', instead of just 'dreams'.