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20Is Lucid Dreamless Sleep Really Lucid?Review of Philosophy and Psychology 15 (1): 1-27. 2024.Recently, the construct ‘lucid dreamless sleep’ has been proposed to explain the state of ‘clear light’ described by Tibetan Buddhist traditions, a special state of consciousness during deep sleep in which we’re told to be able to recognise the nature or essence of our mind (Padmasambhava & Gyatrul 2008; Ponlop 2006; Wangyal 1998). To explain the sort of awareness experienced during this state, some authors have appealed to the sort of lucidity acquired during lucid dreaming and suggested a link…Read more
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142Is lucid dreamless sleep really lucid?Review of Philosophy and Psychology. forthcoming.Recently, the construct ‘lucid dreamless sleep’ has been proposed to explain the state of ‘clear light’ described by Tibetan Buddhist traditions, a special state of consciousness during deep sleep in which we’re told to be able to recognise the nature or essence of our mind (Padmasambhava & Gyatrul, 2008; Ponlop, 2006; Wangyal, 1998). To explain the sort of awareness experienced during this state, some authors have appealed to the sort of lucidity acquired during lucid dreaming and suggested a l…Read more
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219Nothingness is all what there is: an exploration of objectless awareness during sleepFrontiers in Psychology. forthcoming.Recent years have seen a heightened focus on the study of minimal forms of awareness during sleep to advance the study of consciousness and understand what makes a state conscious. This focus draws on an increased interest in anecdotical descriptions made by classic Indian philosophical traditions about unusual forms of awareness during sleep. For instance, in the so-called state of witnessing-sleep or luminosity sleep, one is said to reach a state that goes beyond ordinary dreaming and abide in…Read more
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206Awareness in the void: a micro-phenomenological exploration of dreamless sleepPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (-): -. 2021.This paper presents a pilot study that explores instances of objectless awareness during sleep: conscious experiences had during sleep that prima facie lack an object of awareness. This state of objectless awareness during sleep has been widely described by Indian contemplative traditions and has been characterised as a state of consciousness-as-such; while in it, there is nothing to be aware of, one is merely conscious (cf. Evans-Wentz, 1960; Fremantle, 2001; Ponlop, 2006). While this pheno…Read more
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19Deep sleep has traditionally been deemed as a period that lack consciousness. However, recent evidence challenges this assumption and highlights the possibility of experiencing awareness during deep sleep. By drawing from Indian philosophical traditions, this thesis defends a positive view of consciousness during dreamless sleep – the period of sleep where we are aware but not dreaming. Moreover, this thesis also challenges classic views on the nature of conscious states where consciousness is r…Read more
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University of AntwerpPost-doctoral Fellow
University of Glasgow
PhD, 2023
Amberes, Región Flamenca, Belgium
Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Cognitive Sciences |
Psychology |
Continental Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Cognitive Sciences |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |