The Shakti project (the initial release of Shakti) saw a number of reports of
dream-related phenomena. These included increased dream recall, an increase in the vividness of their dreams, and
lucid dreaming.
Most of the sessions that generated these reports were done shortly before
sleep.
However, before the Shakti project began, there were already reports of dream-related
phenomena associated with the hippocampal
signal, applied over the right temporal lobes. These reports followed
sessions with Shakti's parent technology, and included more intense dreams, enhanced dream recall, and even lucid
dreaming.
Use caution stimulating your temporal lobes. Alternate series of sessions over
the temporal lobes with sessions over the frontal lobes, to maintain a healthy balance.
LUCID DREAMING
Shakti has been used to accomplish lucid dreaming. There have been no laboratory studies about it, but there have
been a few Shakti reports - and a pattern has been emerging.
The pattern is that Lucid dreaming is most likely to be reported when one signal
in particular is used. It alternates a signal derived from the amygdala with one derived from the hippocampus.
These two signals ("The amygdaloid and hippocampal signals in sequence") are applied over the frontal
lobes.
In these cases, Shakti sessions were first done over the temporal lobes, followed
by a session over the frontal lobes. A careful study of this effect will probably find that effective sessions
over the temporal lobes using the same signals will be a prerequisite for lucid dreaming using this approach.
There have been other reports of lucid with this technology, but the ones that
followed this pattern suggest a specific strategy, while others did not. There have not been many reports of lucid
dreaming accomplished this way, but a pattern is emerging at last.
The most important factor will be how prone the individual is, and not everyone
is equally likely to have the experience.
A sober approach would be to do five Shakti sessions over the temporal lobes,
with the sixth (and last) in the series being the frontal lobe session using the "Amygdaloid and hippocampal
signal in sequence".
Other dream-related effects have been reported, such as increased dream recall,
and increasingly vivid dreams.
If the pattern in reports is maintained, then it will suggest (together with
related studies)
that the shift in emphasis from the temporal lobes to the frontal lobes might circumvent left/right temporal lobe
differences that ordinarily inhibit lucid dreaming. This is a speculation only. More research is needed to develop
a exact ideas about the neurological bases for lucid dreaming.
