2021
N. Pisapia
LUCID DREAMING: FROM PHENOMENOLOGY TO THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH. In this critical review, we discuss lucid dreaming, that is, the dream periods in which one is aware of dreaming. During a lucid dream, experiences are correctly recognized by the dreamer as a dreamlike type. This occurs thanks to the activation of self-awareness, accompanied by a more accurate memory of some events or...
Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia
2021
Maciej Giermakowski, Kamila Jankowiak-Siuda, Anna Duszyk-Bogorodzka
wiadome nienie (lucid dreaming -LD) to taki rodzaj snu, w ktrym nicy ma wiadomo tego, e ni (dowiadcza marzenia sennego). wiadomo uzyskan podczas LD okrela si jako dwumodaln, poniewa zawiera cechy wiadomoci pierwszorzdowej, takie jak percepcja, emocje, oraz wiadomoci drugorzdowej, takie jak samorefleksja, zdolno do mylenia abstrakcyjnego czy metapoznanie. Celem pracy jest scharakteryzowanie...
Behavioral Sleep Medicine
2021
Jason G Ellis, Joseph De Koninck, Célyne Bastien
27 citations
Objectives/Background: Despite Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) being considered the first-line treatment for insomnia, it is not without its challenges. As such it is worthwhile to consider, and test, alternative or adjuvant management options. Methods/Participants: The aim of the present study was to examine whether Lucid Dreaming Training for insomnia (LDT-I) impacted on...
Frontiers in Psychology
2021
Moo-Rung Loo, Shih-Kuen Cheng
3 citations
This study investigated the relationship between dream lucidity, i.e., a dreamer's insight to the ongoing dream, and attention by considering lucidity as a trait. We examined the ways in which lucidity correlates with the orienting, alerting, and conflict components of the attentional network. A total of 77 participants rated the lucidity of their dreams over 7 consecutive days with the LuCiD...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
December 1, 2020
Fariba Bogzaran
1 citation
Lucid dreaming is being conscious and aware while dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a form of meta-consciousness and reflective practice that calls in to question habitual behavior, fixed perceptions, core beliefs, and presuppositions. From an epistemological perspective, lucid dreaming could be considered as a way of knowing. The practice of lucid dreaming ultimately leads to the practice of lucid...
Transcultural Psychiatry
December 1, 2020
Susan Smith
2 citations
Transcultural psychiatry has increased awareness of alternative approaches to mental health and wellbeing, influencing developments in Western psychotherapeutic treatments. In this article, I look at the recent interest in alternative therapies by the U.S. military, which has explored the possibilities of lucid dreaming in order to help soldiers cope with the adverse mental and emotional...
November 19, 2020
Thomas J. Snyder, Jayne Gackenbach
In prior research the author focused on stimulation of the semicircular canal component of vestibular functioning and found a relationship between the frequency with which young adults spontaneously experience lucid dreaming and their responsiveness to caloric irrigation. In order to more fully explore the relationship between vestibular functioning and lucidity, the authors have compared the...
November 19, 2020
H. Hunt
Both Jungian and transpersonal traditions regard meditative and related states as a positive unfolding of an advanced symbolic capacity, with their ostensibly “primitive” features actually being part of an abstractly based reorganization of experience rather than confirming the more traditional psychiatric assumptions of “primitivity” or “regression”. An important feature of long-term...
Medical Hypotheses
November 1, 2020
Michael Raduga, Oleg Kuyava, Natalia Sevcenko
31 citations
During REM sleep we normally experience dreams. However, there are other less common REM sleep phenomena, like lucid dreaming (LD), false awakening (FA), sleep paralysis (SP), and out of body experiences (OBE). LD occurs when one is conscious during dreaming, and FA occurs when one is dreaming but believes that has woken up. SP is characterized by skeletal muscle atonia and occurs mainly during...
BORIS
October 9, 2020
Daniel Erlacher, Michael Schredl, Tadas Stumbrys
12 citations
Anecdotal evidence that lucid dreaming might contribute to mental and physical health has been widely reported in the literature. Empirical research, though, is scarce. A brief questionnaire eliciting self-perceived benefits of lucid dreaming on mental and physical health had been completed by 386 participants who had lucid dream experiences. About 90% of the participants reported some benefit...