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Celia Elizabeth Green (born 1935 [1] [2] ) is a British parapsychologist and writer on parapsychology. [3]
Green's parents were both primary school teachers, who together authored a series of geography textbooks which became known as The Green Geographies. [4] Green completed a B.A., M.A., and B. Litt. from Oxford University. [1] She studied psychical research at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1958 to 1960. [1]
From 1957 to 1962, Green held the post of Research Secretary at the Society for Psychical Research in London. [1] [5] [6] In 1961, Green founded and became the Director of the Institute of Psychophysical Research. [1] The Institute's areas of interest were initially listed as philosophy, psychology, theoretical physics, and ESP. [7] However, its principal work during the sixties and seventies concerned hallucinations and other quasi-perceptual experiences.[ citation needed ] In 1982, while Green was the director, the Institute investigated psychokinetic phenomena. [8]
In 1968 Green published Lucid Dreams, a study of a phenomenon described by Green as when a dreamer consciously changes the content of their dreams. [9] [10] The possibility of conscious insight during dreams had previously been treated with scepticism by some philosophers [11] and psychologists [12] and scientific skepticism continued after her book was published. [3]
Green collated both previously published first-hand accounts and the results of longitudinal studies of four subjects of her own. In Lucid Dreams, she proposed a correlation between lucid dreams and the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep. [10] In 1968, Green also published a collection of 400 first-hand accounts of out-of-body experiences for the benefit of scientists interested in studying the phenomena. [13] [14]
With Charles McCreery, Green co-authored the 1975 book Apparitions and the 1994 book Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep. [15] [16] [17] Apparitions is a taxonomy of 'apparitions', or hallucinations in which the viewpoint of the subject was not ostensibly displaced, based on a collection of 1500 first-hand accounts. [18] A 1976 Kirkus Reviews review of Apparitions states, "It's hard to imagine anyone being converted by this [Institute for Psychophysical Research] product: an endless sequence of supposed apparitions [...] There are minimal efforts at objective classification by type of experience and attendant phenomena—visual and auditory effects, collective apparitions, out-of-body experiences—but none whatever at verification." [19]
Her aphorisms have been published in The Decline and Fall of Science [20] and Advice to Clever Children. [21] Ten are included in the Penguin Dictionary of Epigrams, [22] and three in the Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. [23]
The CD titled Lucid Dreams 0096 , which includes parts of the book Lucid Dreams narrated by Green for the label Em:t, was released in 1995. [24] [9] Earlier Green had contributed a nine-minute track to a compilation CD put out by the same recording label. [25] The track was entitled "In the Extreme" and consisted of readings by the author from her books, The Human Evasion, and Advice to Clever Children.
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A decade ago, LaBerge came across a book called Lucid Dreams by Celia Green, an English parapsychologist. Since many scientists were skeptical that lucidity occurred during the dream state, LaBerge went to the sleep lab to prove that lucid dreaming occurred during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep—the time when most dreams occur.ProQuest 295270295
Green reads sections from her book, Lucid Dreams, to a background of music that has a fluctuating, if constant, presence. Bursts of pink noise (an aural static, with the hard frequencies cut out), a sound that Green uses in experiments to stimulate lucid dreaming, is featured.ProQuest 224376255
The first scientific book on the subject was published by Celia Green (1968) who also worked in the field of psychic research. In her book entitled Lucid Dreams, Green provided a comprehensive summary of the phenomenon describing its perceptual features and associations with out-of-body experience (OBE). Additionally, she introduced the notion of pre-lucid dreaming and proposed that lucid dreams are likely to occur during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.ProQuest 2234966136
These case histories have been edited from Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep, by Celia Green and Charles McCreery. Published by RoutledgeProQuest 293528536
Psychologists Celia Green and Charles McCreery put a lot of these sightings down to an unusual state of sleep. In their recent book Lucid Dreaming (published in Britain by Rotledge[ sic ]) they explain that the dreamers think they are wide awake but all their electrical brain waves show they're in a deep sleep and their visions are, in fact, dreams.ProQuest 391872813
... He is quoted in The Human Evasion, by Celia Green (Institute of Psychophysical Research/State Mutual Book and Periodical Service). ...ProQuest 425763801
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