Lucid Dream Induction Technique Use Outside the Research Setting
Felix Sammer, Michael Schredl, Martin Voracek
2026 preprint DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/d3wyn (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Cross-sectional survey |
|---|---|
| Topics | Lucid dreaming |
Abstract
A cross-sectional survey examining lucid dream induction technique use outside the research setting and its relationship with lucid dreams and sleep paralysis. Reporting will be done in accordance with the following guidelines: CROSS (Sharma et al., 2021), CHERRIES (Eysenbach, 2004), and Q-SSP (Protogerou & Hagger, 2020).
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 |