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Drs Carolus M den Blanken will be offering us at Electric Dreams a few months of
his research material collected over a life time and we will be giving the
*introduction* here on the e-zne and then directing you to the WEB site for the
main body of the paper. This material appeared in:
Lucidity,11(1&2)85-93:1992-1993.
Edited by Elinor Gebremedhin for Lucidity. This paper is based on a
French-language address to the European Association for the Study of Dreams,
delivered on October 12,1991 in Mons, Belgium. A French version with the title
"Le rêve lucide aux Pays-Bas" appeared in Oniros, 34/35,17-19;1991.
Intro
Some time ago, when Mr. Roger Ripert invited me to give a presentation at a
meeting of the European Association for the Study of Dreams(EASD), I hesitated
to accept this invitation. I felt honored, of course, but despite a number of
invitations throughout the years, I had always kept myself aloof from seminars
and congresses. Hopefully, the variety of reasons I had will become clear during
this presentation.
The primary reason, however, I want to disclose at the outset. I had always
wondered what new perspectives I could bring to the lucid dream field. I am just
a simple lucid dreamer, like so many of you, and I do not have the opportunity
to do scientific research. The fact that I have published some articles and a
book regarding lucid dreaming seemed insufficient reasons for a presentation
today.
Suddenly, however, I realized that by addressing you I would have an
opportunity to express some feelings I have carried around with me for a long
time. By voicing the situations that I have experienced in the Netherlands, I
could not only clarify my own position, but also be a spokesman for all those
anonymous people in other countries that have no dreamer networks or scientific
research on lucid dreaming. I would guess that there are a lot of individuals
like myself, who have been carrying the lucid dream vehicle in their country
completely through own efforts, without mental or financial backup. I will say
more about this later. In addition, I thought I would now have the opportunity
to express my ambivalent feelings towards lucid dream research. So you see, I am
warning you that the title of this lecture is somewhat misleading. Enough
clarifying, the story.
For the main body of this paper, please stop by
www.dreamgate.com/dreams/blanken/blanken2.htm
eeeeek, this file is offline. if you have a copy, e me.
Also, see the extensive Lucid Dream Bibliography, edited by Drs. Carolus M.
den Blanken from the Netherlands, which is now available online.
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/bibs
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