This study examined how lucid dreaming (LD) can be used for fiction writing during an 8-week intervention with 29 writers of varied LD experience. Participants received LD induction training and drew on lucid, non-lucid, and hypnagogic/hypnopompic dreams to produce a short story. Quantitative analysis compared blind ratings of pre- and post-intervention short stories across five creativity...
This research aims to enhance creative writing practices through dream-focused interventions. It combines the fields of psychology, aesthetics, and creative writing, and consists of four studies. Study 1 reanalysed Naomi Epel’s interviews with 26 writers, demonstrating how non-lucid dreams contribute to idea generation, creative problem-solving, and writing processes. Study 2 was an...