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Senoi

The Senoi are a Malaysian hunting and gathering[?] people who were reported to make extensive use of lucid dreaming to ensure happiness and mental health.

The original field research was done by Kilton Stewart[?] before World War II and published in the early 1950s. Parapsychologist Charles Tart[?] and pedagogue George Leonard[?] later publicized Stewart's account in books and at the Esalen retreat center.

Later researchers were unable to substantiate Stewart's account. In 1985 G. William Domhoff[?] argued in The Mystique of Dreams that the

Anthropologists who have worked with the Temiar/Senoi people report that they are familar with the concept of lucid dreaming and that it is not of great importance to them.

Bibliography:

"The Selling of the Senoi" by Ann Faraday and John Wren-Lewis http://www.sawka.com/spiritwatch/selling.htm

Articles, Books, Notes and Summary of the Senoi" and ""Kilton Stewart and The Marvelous Senoi Dream Controversy", a summary by Richard Wilkerson. (or at http://www.shpm.com/qa/qadream/qadream8 )

http://www.angelfire.com/ak/electricdreams/senoi.htm



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