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The paper revises a symposium presentation by clarifying how lucid dreaming—defined as awareness of dreaming while dreaming—can be specified through a kinesthetic feeling process tied to bodily orientation and movement. Kinesthetic sensation is traced to afferent pathways and embodied self-awareness, while its imaginative derivatives are linked to self-involvement during normal and lucid dreaming. Examples from participant reports and related findings illustrate how ordinary kinesthetic backgrounds can transform into extraordinary sensations that support sustained dream lucidity.","Kinesthetic Imagery as a Quality of Lucid Awareness:  \nDescriptive and Experimental Case Studies  \nTore Neilsen  \nDepartment of Psychology  \nUniversity of Alberta  \nNote: This is a revision of the paper presented at the lucidity symposium. It contains numerous conceptual clarifications and a discussion of some results collected subsequent to the symposium.  \nThroughout this symposium there has been substantial agreement that lucid dreaming can be defined as ‘an awareness of dreaming while dreaming’. This defini-tion may be adequate in a general sense, but to facilitate research into specific questions about lucid dream formation, a more specific statement is required.  \nSome investigators have used more specific descrip-tions of lucid‘awareness’, usually with reference to some quality of the dreamer’s feelings or sensations during the dream. For example, Hunt (this panel) refers to a special sense of‘freedom or excitement’or an ‘attitude of detachment’. Others have em-phasized the sense of control  \naccompanying lucidity. In a similar way, I am attempting to specify how ‘awareness of dreaming’may be conceptualized, in part, as a feeling process of kinesthetic origin. More specifically, awareness during dreaming-like awareness during many waking statesfrequently refers to a particular class of sensations, namely, the kinesthetic sensations of’bodily orientation and movement. Qualitative changes in the nature ofkines-thetic sensations will, in this view, be accompanied by qualitative changes in the nature of dream‘awareness’ referring to these sensations. By using examples of kinesthetic imagery provided by participants in this mornings’ panel discussion on experiential significance of lucid dreaming, as well as findings from my own studies of REM dream formation, I will try to illustrate how kinesthetic imagery is a central feature of the lucid dream experience which may, at times, constitute lucid‘awareness’ itself.  \nDefinition of Kinesthetic Imagery  \nKinesthetic imagery, whether embedded in waking or dreaming imagery sequences, is a derivative ofkines-thetic sensation. Kinesthetic sensation, in turn, is a property of an interactive network of afferent pathways providing moment-to-moment information about bodily orientation and movement. Afferent pathways subserving kinesthetic sensation include, for example, facial feedback systems signaling emotional expres-sion (e.g., Tomkins, 1982), muscular proprioceptors signaling features of body and limb movement (e.g., McCloskey, 1978), and vestibular and cervical reflex arcs signaling balance, posture, and eye and head movements. These kinesthetic sensations apparently comprise the affective, bodily substrate of ordinary waking self-awareness (e.g., Shapiro, 1985) and of moments of heightened self-awareness or affective insight (Kuiken, Carey & Nielsen, 1986) . I propose further that imaginal derivatives of kinesthetic sensation comprise the affective substrate of self-involvement and awareness during dreaming, i.e., that normal and lucid dreaming are sensory events anchored in bodily felt imagery.  \nKinesthetic imagery, then is characterized by the reproduction of waking bodily experience. In its most mundane form, kinesthetic imagery is nothing more than this, i.e., a veridical reproduction of some invariant waking kinesthetic sensation of the body at rest or in motion. Such mundane kinesthetic imagery includes the imagined sensations that form the typically unnoticed‘backdrop’of normal dreaming, e.g., sensations of embodiment, posture, orientation, balance, gravity, inertia, object contact, rhythm, acceleration, body and limb movement, facial movement, tendency to move-ment, gesture, and emotional expression.  \nHowever, kinesthetic imagery can frequently‘assume an extraordinary aspect; it can become a creative exten-sion of normal, waking kinesthetic sensation. 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