Alleged Giffords shooter Jared Loughner was into "conscience dreaming" or something

 
Jared Loughner claimed on his YouTube Profile he really enjoyed studying "Conscience dreams." His profile also states he studied grammar, but he seems to have failed in that effort. What Loughner is most likely referring to is "Conscious dreams." Here is how one alleged expert explains "Conscious dreams."

I have done scientific research into conscious dreams since I discovered them in 1976 and was published in 1979, 1980, and 1981 in France (Agressologie, Masson, eds. Paris) and in 1976 in Italy. In my articles I described what distinguishes this form of dream from normal oneiric phenomena and I also analysed different states of consciousness. The work I did is, apparently, the most advanced that has been done within the scientific field. Of course, conscious dreams have been explored for a long time by the Tibetan monks, but they had no knowledge of present-day scientific analysis. Conscious dreaming is, wrongly, called "lucid" dreaming in English. I will describe here a simple and efficient method for inducing this kind of dream. Moreover, I strongly believe that when most people are able to enter, voluntarily, in the virtual world of their dreamworld, this will drastically change society. Manipulating your own mind in conscious dreams cannot be compared with the highly primitive manipulations of computer generated virtual realities ...

This sounds a lot like a self-induced hallucination, but one author, Robert Moss, claims Jared Loughner got it all wrong.

It's been suggested that by "conscience dreaming" he was trying to say "conscious dreaming", and one of his classmates has told reporters that he was obessed with trying to "control" and "manipulate" dreams.

I don't know whether this young man ever came upon a copy of Conscious Dreaming, but if he did he could not have comprehended a single word. In that book, as in all my work, I explain why it is crazy to seek to control and manipulate dreams. Our dreams are often a corrective to the delusions of the ego, and give us perspective that we desperately need, so we need to listen to them carefully and seek feedback from others, in a careful and respectful process of dream sharing, so that we can be helped to see things we may otherwise miss. As I wrote recenty at my website, using the term Active Dreaming that best describes my overall approach::

Either way, it all looks to be pretty far out there to me...