Hello dreamers.

My name is Donald Lyon and I am a PHD student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. My research focuses on the theme of dreaming of the deceased. I myself am an avid dreamer and regularly dream of my deceased friends and relatives. I have recently began learning how to lucid dream with Charlie Morley in the UK. I have had three lucid dreams so far. One of these involved a very interesting encounter with my dead brother. My research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and will lead towards a thesis in which I hope to challenge Western academic assumptions regarding the boundaries between both waking life and dreaming, and the living and the dead. My assumption is that these boundaries, if they can be said to exist at all, are very fluid indeed. I am hoping to find people who likewise experience dreams of the deceased (whether lucid or not) and who would be willing to share these experiences with me. If you think you can help, or just want to find out a little more about what I am doing, please get in touch. I would love to hear from you. You can also check out my page on the University of Aberdeen website for more info (I cannot include the URL as I have only just joined this forum. If you are interested my page can be found under the current students section of the postgraduate pages in the anthropology section of the University of Aberdeen site).

Thank you, Donald.