Sleep, dreams, and athletic performance
Daniel Erlacher, Felix Ehrlenspiel
November 6, 2017 DOI: 10.4324/9781315268149-12 (opens in new tab)
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| Key findings | The chapter reviews sleep measurement and recording methods and characterizes lucid dreaming as involving awareness of the dream state and wake-like cognitive abilities, describing lucid dream practice as a form of mental practice or cognitive rehearsal of motor activity. It suggests sleep may be of special interest around athletic competitions and classifies lucid dream induction techniques into cognitive techniques, external stimulation, and miscellaneous categories. |
Abstract
This chapter reviews in more detail how sleep is measured and the basic methods of sleep recording. Sleep is generally regarded as a valuable resource for psychological and physiological well-being. A lucid dream is a dream in which the dreamer is aware of the dream state, and lucid dreamers are able to execute complex actions within the dream. In contrast to normal dreaming, lucid dreaming is characterised by the reappearance of many wake-like cognitive capabilities within the dream. Lucid dream practise is a form of mental practise, which is defined as the cognitive rehearsal of motor activity in the absence of overt physical movement. In every athletic career competition are special highlights and therefore sleep might be of special interest in conjunction with a competition. A variety of different techniques have been suggested for lucid dream induction, which can be loosely classified into three broad categories: cognitive techniques, external stimulation, and miscellaneous.