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Lucid Art and Hyperspace Lucidity

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This article explores nonrepresentational, multidimensional lucid dreaming and its parallel imagery in modern art paintings. Developed from a series of successive qualitative experiments on art and lucid dreaming, the study brings together phenomenological and narrative approaches to reveal a relationship between imagery in a particular lucid dream experience (Hyperspace Lucidity) and a particular type of modern art painting (Lucid Art). This article attempts to open new dialogues for investigation of the interconnection between the dreaming mind and art.

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Bogzaran, F. Lucid Art and Hyperspace Lucidity. Dreaming 13, 29–42 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022186217703

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