Jayne Gackenbach is a doctor of Experimental Psychology, a university lecturer in US and Canadian on the subject of sleep and dreams, the former president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and the author of a huge number of articles and books on lucid dreams (LD), including ones co-authored with the renowned Stephen LaBerge. In 1992, she was invited to present her work on lucid dreaming to the Dalai Lama at a conference on sleeping, dreaming, and dying. She has also repeatedly received grants for research on LD.
Among other things, she has produced in depth studies of the connections between lucid dreaming and video games, the effects of meditation, as well as differences in LD practice between men and women. In one of her 1989 articles, she analyzes the connections of LD with out-of-body and near-death experiences, and cases of alien abduction—thus drawing parallels between the states we term “phase states.”
In 1981, she created the journal Lucidity Letter, dedicated to LD, which existed until 1991. It was published biannually and was intended primarily for professionals and experienced LD practitioners. Gackenbach has also served as editor of the ASD Newsletter, which was published by the International Association for the Study of Dreams for its members.
Jayne Gackenbach’s work has been repeatedly covered on television, radio, in newspapers and magazines. In total, she has given more than a hundred interviews on the subject of dreams, and participated in several documentaries. One interview was used as part of a documentary accompanying the DVD release of the movie Inception, which became popular among lucid dreamers.
A detailed biography of the researcher can be found on her page of the MacEwan University website.
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