The late Paul Tholey, a psychiatrist and lucid dream researcher, believed sensory motor skills can be enhanced by exercising them in a lucid dream state, citing the example of Jean Claude Killy who practiced by mentally skiing in a half-sleeping state (10).
Any of them could have been held up to aspiring writers as an example of how to write lucid English - indeed, they often were.
But he had never traveled by balloon and neither had he gone to the African continent, it was just an example of his inventive mind, his lucid writing, and his extensive research carried out at Parisian libraries.
She is wonderfully lucid, for example, but without the airless certainty of someone writing for an audience of think tanks or insider colleagues.
That's probably an example of a lack of attention rather than false memory, which is the subject of another chapter, investigating the psychoanalytic "subtleties of the relation between memory and forgetting", as Byatt puts it in her lucid introduction.
When the Academy nominates sturdy but unremarkable fare such as "American Sniper" and "The Imitation Game" — both examples of lucid, engrossing storytelling, but neither a technical nor artistic knockout — it's keeping one slow-moving foot stubbornly in its past.
Ritchie, a former newspaper literary editor, illustrates his lucid explanations with a few well-chosen examples of sub-editing disaster – as does the Guardian's very own David Marsh in his fine grammar-and-style compendium, For Who the Bell Tolls (Guardian Faber).
Given the emotional nature of the cases he examines, Mr Barkan manages a remarkably lucid and even-handed account of the best-known examples of restitution claims.
There are many fine examples of Levi's strange fictional style in "A Tranquil Star," a collection of 17 previously untranslated stories rendered into lucid, seamless English by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli.
Yeadon provides a lucid explanation of the human inertia model in the series described above.
