A new experiment, conducted by the Dream Research Institute (DRI) in London, in collaboration with Robert Waggoner, co-editor of the Lucid Dreaming Experience magazine, attempted to corroborate psychotherapist Nigel Hamilton’s hypothesis.
According to the hypothesis, psychotherapy patients who perform balanced geometric movement in their dreams will later experience improved psychological equilibrium and make progress in therapy.
The participants in this new experiment were asked to enter a lucid dream and then move in a certain way as to create three simple geometric shapes. Analysis of the results showed that colors and symmetry in the dream were associated with changes in the dreamers’ psychological states.
In particular, the appearance of significant symmetrical shapes in the dream and the completion of the geometric figures affected the person’s psychological balance and sense of harmony. This study points to the existence of many other phase-based psychotherapeutic tools that we have yet to discover.
The paper was published in October 2020 in the International Journal of Dream Research.
