RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Lucid dreaming as a method for living otherwise
A1 Méndez de la Brena, Dresda Emma
A1 Schoenmann, Cornelia
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Sociología
AB This contribution explores lucid dreaming as an eccentric method for telling a different story of the pathologization of narcolepsy. Narcolepsy has been frequently misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disorder. The most conspicuous point of confusion is hallucinations and vivid dreams. This article is particularly interested in the ways in which the unusual combination of hallucinatory and lucid dream activity and wake-like reflective awareness allows to regain control of one’s reality and ownership. By introducing one of the authors’ personal experiences with narcolepsy and hallucinations and following Lisa Blackman’s (2012, 2014) and Grace Cho’s (2008) work on non-ordinary conscious states, this article examines lucid dreaming as a method that offers a particular art of living  in dream-worlds that are sometimes impossible or terrifying to inhabit. Lucid dreaming opens up a window to explore non-human forms of care (Barad, 2012; Bellacasa, 2017; Dokumaci, 2017) that take place in unearthly worlds, which offer survival for those who inhabit a dream-world that terrifies them and a real-world that pathologizes.
SN 1989-8487
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/48524
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/48524
LA eng
NO Sociology and Technoscience; Vol 11 No 1 (2021): Seeking Eccentricity pags. 125-151
DS UVaDOC
RD 17-jul-2024