International Clinical Neuroscience Journal
May 11, 2023
Berenika Maciejewicz
Lucid dreaming is a rare phenomenon of consciousness emerging while asleep, most often during the rapid eye movement phase. It is estimated that over half of the world population have had at least one lucid dream in their lifetime and around one fourth report to have one episode of dreaming lucidity each month. Conscious dreaming happens when a dreamer becomes suddenly aware of being inside...
American Journal of Applied Psychology
May 10, 2023
Ornella Montebarocci, Paola Surcinelli, Sara Giovagnoli
1 citation
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the subjective experience of dreams, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Specifically, the study aimed to explore whether the subjective experience of dreams, including how often dreams are remembered, the presence of nightmares, and the way in which a person thinks about dreams, could influence the occurrence of subjective...
Medical Hypotheses
March 27, 2023
Emma Peters, Sanne Golembiewski, Daniel Erlacher et al.
12 citations
Improving motor performance without physical movements might seem counterintuitive, however, decades of research on mental practice have demonstrated its feasibility. The phenomenon of lucid dreaming – i.e. becoming aware of the current dream state during ongoing sleep – bears some resemblance to mental practice: behaviors such as motor tasks can be intentionally simulated with mental imagery....
PsyArXiv
March 14, 2023
Francisco T Gallo, Ignacio Spiousas, Nerea L Herrero et al.
preprint
In this study, we examine the structural properties of dream reports that include non-lucid, lucid dreams (LDs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). We collected a set of 916 dream reports (728 non-lucid dreams, 122 LDs, 68 OBEs) obtained from 60 participants that kept a dream journal for two months. The collected reports were transformed into directed graphs, where each different word plays the...
PsyArXiv
March 13, 2023
Francisco T Gallo, Nerea L Herrero, Antonela Tommasel et al.
preprint
Lucid dreams (LDs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are phenomena characterized by the return of higher cognitive abilities during sleep, including reflective self-awareness and abstract thought. Given the similarities in reflective self-awareness between LDs and OBEs, some authors consider them variations of the same phenomenon. This study aimed to compare the differences in content between...
Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
March 1, 2023
A. Chatterjee
abstract:This article examines a much-underrated aspect in the Holmesian canon: dreams and the potential for dream-rehearsals by virtue of the brain's "dream drugstore" faculty. Frequently described as "dreamy-eyed" or the "dreamer" of Baker Street, Holmes possesses powers of visiting scenes of crime "in spirit," exhibiting powers of oneirogenesis. This unorthodox criminological strategy marks...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
March 1, 2023
Both lucid dreaming and mindfulness appear to involve metacognition and awareness, or “awareness of awareness” in which one is aware and consciously attends to present experiences. Despite evidence for the continuity hypothesis of dreaming (which posits dream content is connected and related to the concerns and thoughts in waking life), little research has explored a relationship between lucid...
Sociology International Journal
February 17, 2023
Filgueira Arias Candida
The creative performance, as well as other exclusively human capabilities will be the qualities that the future workers must have, due to what has been called the fourth industrial revolution. Therefore, teachers have the obligation to investigate and innovate on new techniques and implement methodologies that promote these skills. The Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology has shown great...
PsyArXiv
February 17, 2023
Andrey Shashkov, Michael Raduga, Zhanna Zhunusova
preprint
Objective. Lucid dreams (LDs) are dreams in which people are aware of the unreality of the events taking place and can influence the plot. People can experience lucid dreaming either intentionally or unintentionally and can experience different emotions and perceptions that can lead to psychophysiological consequences upon waking. In this study, we investigated the possibility of achieving...
PsyArXiv
February 7, 2023
Michael Raduga, Zhanna Zhunusova, Andrey Shashkov et al.
preprint
Objective. People experience lucid dreaming (LD) with different emotions and perceptions that can have psychophysiological consequences upon waking. To study the placebo without a deception effect, we tested how psychoactive drug intake during LDs affects perceptions in dreams and after waking.Method. Through two online experiments, we instructed volunteers to consume alcohol (N = 104) and...
PsyArXiv
February 7, 2023
Michael Raduga, Zhanna Zhunusova
preprint
Objective. The arousal of consciousness during REM sleep can lead to states of sleep paralysis (SP), lucid dreaming (LD), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and false awakening (FA). We know that recurrent SP is a symptom of sleep disorders like insomnia or narcolepsy. This study hypothesizes that other recurrent phenomena related to SP could also be signs of sleep deviations like insomnia and...
February 1, 2023
Mark Blagrove, Julia Lockheart
The chapter begins with the text of a dream which includes themes of lucidity and control of the dream, told to us at an event at the University of California Los Angeles, and a painting of the dream and a commentary on its composition. Main content: The chapter describes how lucid dreams are a rare form of dream because the metacognition in them seems to be fragile and short-lived, and because...
Queensland University of Technology
2023
Clarita Bonamino
During lucid dreaming, dreamers are aware of being in a dream and may consciously make decisions, execute actions, and manipulate the dream surroundings. This research explored the lucid dreaming experiences and influence on the waking life and sleep health in adolescent athletes and non-athletes. Findings indicate that lucid dreaming is not detrimental to sleep health. Further, it offers...
Progress in Brain Research
2023
Prakash Chandra Kavi
7 citations
Human sleep is a dynamic and complex process comprising sleep stages with REM and NREM sleep characteristics that come in cycles. During sleep, there is a loss of responsiveness or a perceptual loss of conscious awareness with increasing thresholds for wakefulness as sleep progresses. There are brief bursts of wakefulness or Wake After Sleep Onset (WASO) throughout a nocturnal sleep. Conscious...