Measuring lucid dreaming skills: A new questionnaire (LUSK)
International Journal of Dream Research April 1, 2018 DOI: 10.11588/ijodr.2018.1.44040 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Questionnaire development and validation study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 675 |
| Population | Participants in a survey on lucid dreaming |
| Topics | Dreaming Lucid dreaming |
| Key points | The ten-item questionnaire demonstrated high internal consistency. Lucid dreaming skills correlated with age and lucid dream frequency, but not with gender. The authors suggest future validation against sleep laboratory performance. |
Abstract
Lucid dreaming is the phenomenon of dreaming while knowing that one is dreaming but the skills within the lucid dream, e.g., carrying out successfully pre-arranged tasks, vary considerably from dreamer to dreamer – even in frequent lucid dreamers. In order to measure inter-individual differences in lucid dreaming skills, a ten-item questionnaire was developed. The internal consistency was high. Substantial correlations with the skills score, age, and lucid dream frequency were found whereas gender did not affect lucid dreaming skills in the present sample (N = 675). The next steps would be to validate the questionnaire, i.e., demonstrating that high lucid dreaming skills (LUSK) scores are predicting better performance in sleep laboratory experiments, e.g., performing pre-arranged eye movements or specific tasks.
Comparable studies
Other cross-sectional and survey studies on lucid dreaming, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Phenomenology of Lucid Dreaming: An Online Survey Respondents to an online survey about lucid dreams | 2014 | Online survey | n = 684 |
| Frequency of Lucid Dreaming in a Representative German Sample Representative sample of German adults | 2011 | Cross-sectional survey | n = 919 |
| Lucid dreaming: an age‐dependent brain dissociation Students aged 6-19 years | 2012 | Survey | |
| Terror and bliss? Commonalities and distinctions between sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, and their associations with waking life experiences Adults aged 18–82 years | 2016 | Cross-sectional survey | n = 1,928 |
| Increased Lucid Dreaming Frequency in Narcolepsy Patients diagnosed with narcolepsy and healthy control subjects | 2015 | Cross-sectional study | n = 979 |
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