- Paul Tholey
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Paul Tholey started the study of
oneirology in an attempt to prove that dreams occur in color. Given the unreliability of dream memories and following thecritical realism approach, he usedlucid dreaming as anepistemological tool for investigating dreams, in a similar fashion toStephen LaBerge . He devised thereflection technique for inducing lucid dreams, consisting in continuously suspecting waking life to be a dream, in the hope that such a habit would manifest itself during dreams.Paul Tholey's research included the examination of the cognitive abilities of dreamers, as well as the cognitive abilities of dream figures. In the latter study, nine trained lucid dreamers were directed to set other dream figures arithmetic and verbal tasks during lucid dreaming (Cognitive abilities of dream figures in lucid dreams, 1983). Dream figures who agreed to perform the tasks proved more successful in verbal than in arithmetic tasks.
Bibliography
*"Techniques for inducing and manipulating lucid dreams". Perceptual and Motor Skills, 57, 1983, pp 79-90.
*"Relation between dream content and eye movements tested by lucid dreams". Perceptual and Motor Skills, 56, 1983, pp 875-878.
*"Cognitive abilities of dream figures in lucid dreams". Lucidity Letter, 71, 1983.
*" [http://gestalttheory.net/archive/thol_lucid1.html Overview of the Development of Lucid Dream Research in Germany] ". Lecture at the VI. International Conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams in London 1989. First published in: Lucidity Letter, 8(2) (1989), pp 1-30.
* " [http://www.spiritwatch.ca/conversa.htm Conversation Between Stephen LaBerge and Paul Tholey in July of 1989] ". B. Holzinger (ed.). Lucidity, 10(1&2), 1991, pp 62-71.
* [http://gestalttheory.net/people/thol_biblio.html A complete bibliography of articles in German] , some of which are translated into French and English.External links
* [http://homepage.sunrise.ch/homepage/cgassman/tholey2.html Paul Tholey's bio and online articles]
* [http://gestalttheory.net/people/thol_ref.html Another Paul Tholey's bio]
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