PsyArXiv
April 12, 2022
Remington Mallett, Laura Sowin, Rachel Raider et al.
preprint
Therapies focused on lucid dreaming could be useful for treating various sleep disorders and other conditions. Still, one major roadblock is the paucity of systematic information on the consequences of attempting these sorts of dreams. The current study sought to quantify positive and negative aspects of seeking lucid dreams, describe their phenomenology in detail, and identify features...
Sleep
April 11, 2022
Benjamin Baird, Giulio Tononi, Stephen LaBerge
41 citations
(1) To critically test whether a previously reported increase in frontolateral 40 Hz power in lucid REM sleep, used to justify the claim that lucid dreaming is a "hybrid state" mixing sleep and wakefulness, is attributable to the saccadic spike potential (SP) artifact as a corollary of heightened REM density. (2) To replicate the finding that lucid dreams are associated with physiological...
Research Square
February 25, 2022
Sofia Tzioridou, Martin Dresler, Kristian Sandberg et al.
preprint
A theoretical and empirical association between lucid dreaming and mindfulness, as well as lucid dreaming and nightmares has previously been observed; however, the relationship between nightmares and mindfulness has received surprisingly little attention. Here, we present the findings of two studies exploring the relation of nightmare frequency and distress with two components of mindfulness,...
Globus: psychology and pedagogy
February 19, 2022
Yakov Lvovich Liberman, Evgeny Vladimirovich Kogan
The article discusses the mechanism of solving creative tasks in a dream. The concepts of heuristic autodialog and lucid dreaming are formulated, the structure of the first is described and the possibilities of its implementation in the process of the second are shown. The role of the phases of fast and slow sleep in solving the problem by the method of heuristic autodialog in lucid dreaming is...
Journal of Sleep Research
February 1, 2022
Serena Scarpelli, Maurizio Gorgoni, Valentina Alfonsi et al.
37 citations
The Coronavirus 2019 pandemic strongly affected our sleep and dream activity. Many cross-sectional studies highlighted increased dream recall frequency, and revealed a great presence of pandemic-related oneiric contents. Here, we present the first prospective study carried out on an Italian sample. One-hundred subjects were requested to fill out a web-survey including socio-demographic...
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
2022
Juanyu Liu, Lan Ding, Zihan Chen
The mystery of dreams has always been an area of deep research. Lucid dreaming is when people realize they are awake, but they are dreaming. This work introduces and studies the induction methods of lucid dreams. We investigated whether the lucid dream occurred during rapid eye movement and investigated the ability to learn about lucid dreaming. Studies have shown that lucid dreaming has...
International Journal of Dream Research
2022
Lucid dreaming is a phenomenon in which the dreamer is aware that he/she is dreaming while the dream is still going on. Many studies investigated the prevalence of lucid dreaming in various populations; however, no study has been conducted in the Arab Middle East region. As age and cultural differences in attitudes towards dreams may influence lucid dreaming, we aimed to investigate lucid...
International Journal of Sport and Health Science
2022
Erlacher Daniel, Masato Fujii, Shunichi Tazuke et al.
2 citations
In a previous questionnaire study with German professional athletes, we showed that the prevalence of lucid dreaming in athletes is 57% and that about 5% of athletes use their lucid dreams to practice sport skills while asleep. The present study applied a Japanese translation of the same questionnaire to a Japanese sample of college athletes to explore cultural differences. We found that about...
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Javier García-campayo, Rinchen Hijar-Aguinaga, Alberto Barceló-soler et al.
3 citations
The aim of this study was to compare meditators and non-meditators in terms of their tendency to have peak experiences and their dream lucidity, while examining the associations between these outcomes and some related variables such as non-dual awareness, mindfulness facets and absorption. In this cross-sectional study, 237 participants from general Spanish population completed an online survey...
Sleep Science
2022
Michael Raduga
8 citations
Many people have dreams nightly and some maintain consciousness during dreams. Such dreams are referred to as lucid dreams (LD). During dreams, our speech correlates with facial muscle activity, which is hard to decode, but LD could solve this problem. The primary hypothesis of this study was that the facial muscles electric activity during LD corresponds to specific sounds. Understanding this...
PLoS One
2022
P Kelly, Tainá Macêdo, T Felipe et al.
3 citations
The COVID-19 pandemic changed people's lives all over the world. While anxiety and stress decreased sleep quality for most people, an increase in total sleep time was also observed in certain cohorts. Dream recall frequency also increased, especially for nightmares. However, to date, there are no consistent reports focusing on pandemic-related changes in lucid dreaming, a state during which...
SLEEP Advances
2022
Remington Mallett, Laura Sowin, Rachel Raider et al.
22 citations
Therapies focused on lucid dreaming could be useful for treating various sleep disorders and other conditions. Still, one major roadblock is the paucity of systematic information on the consequences of attempting these sorts of dreams. The current study sought to quantify positive and negative aspects of seeking lucid dreams, describe their phenomenology in detail, and identify features...