Stephen LaBerge

Stephen LaBerge ( b. 1947 ) is an American psychologist and entrepreneur. In addition to the late 1998 Paul Tholey he is a leading researcher in the field of lucid dreams.

He made his 1967 bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Arizona in 1980 and got the title of Ph.D. psychology with the study Lucid dreaming: an exploratory study of consciousness falling on sleep ( extended edition Lucid dreaming appeared in Los Angeles in 1985 ISBN 0-87477-342-3 ). His main work has been translated into several languages ​​(see next to the German translation: Le Rêve lucide, Paris 1997 Sogni coscienti, Milan 1985).

At Stanford University, he was until 2003 a Research Associate ( postdoctoral ) at the Department of Psychology.

He heads the Lucidity Institute, founded by him, the commercial self-awareness courses and equipment markets, to cause lucid dreams ( Nova Dreamer ).

Importance

LaBerge was basic research in the field of lucid dream research. Regardless of Keith Hearne, who runs the same research and has made similar discoveries about the same time, LaBerge was able to scientifically prove as part of his doctoral thesis that there is a real phenomenon in lucid dreaming. The core of the experiment consisted in empirical observation of his eye movements in the sleep laboratory during sleep. LaBerge was always able during his lucid dreams an agreed and unique and not to be generated by random inexplicable signal through conscious back and forth movement of his eyeballs. He was proven during REM sleep. Thus he proved at the same time the scanning hypothesis. The experiment was repeated in this and similar experimental arrangements (for example, solving very simple computing tasks in the dream ) later by many other people successful.

Works in English ( selection)

  • Exploring the world of lucid dreaming ( with H. Rheingold ), Ballantine, New York 1990
  • Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life, Sounds True Inc., 2009

Works on German

  • Wide awake in a dream. Highest awareness in deep sleep. Paderborn 1987 ISBN 3-87387-266-8 short discussion of ekz, again Munich 1991
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