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...
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...
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...
Sleep Medicine
December 1, 2021
Michael Raduga
5 citations
Lucid dreams (LDs) occur when people become aware that they are dreaming. This phenomenon has a wide range of possible applications from the perspectives of psychology, training physical movements, and controlling computers while asleep, among others. However, research on LDs might lack efficiency because the standard LD verification protocol uses polysomnography (PSG), which requires an...