Dreaming
September 1, 2018
Tadas Stumbrys
This article reports the first systematic study on lucid nightmares—terrifying lucid dreams with a lack of dream control. An online survey was completed by 634 participants, of whom 574 had had previous lucid dream experience. According to the reports of lucid dreamers, less than half of them had experienced a lucid nightmare, and only 1% of them could be considered as suffering from lucid...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 2018
Michael Schredl, Alina Noveski
Most studies looking into the relationship between lucid dream frequency and personality were based on questionnaire measures of lucid dream frequency. Thus, the aim was to investigate the effect of keeping a dream diary on lucid dream frequency and the correlates of the frequency of lucid dreams in the diary with the Big Five personality factors. The study included 1,612 dreams reported by 425...
BORIS
August 23, 2018
Daniel Erlacher
Paul Tholey (1937-1998) was one of the pioneers of modern lucid dream research and he had a tremendous impact on lucid dream research in general and on my own work. Therefore, it is a pleasure to write a review about the edited book by Gerhard Stemberger (2018), which covers a collection of eleven papers written by Tholey. Stemberger and Tholey knew each other very well and this book was a...
PLoS One
August 8, 2018
Stephen LaBerge, Kristen Lamarca, Benjamin Baird
59 citations
Lucid dreaming is a remarkable state of consciousness in which one is aware of the fact that one is dreaming while continuing to dream. Based on the strong relationship between physiological activation during rapid eye-movement sleep and lucid dreaming, our pilot research investigated whether enhancing cortical activation via acetylcholinesterease inhibition (AChEI) would increase the frequency...
Consciousness and Cognition
August 1, 2018
Gregory S. Sparrow, Ryan Hurd, Ralph Carlson et al.
An experimental home study examined the impact of a pre-sleep protocol for enhancing self-awareness, lucidity, and responsiveness in dreams. It included ingesting the cholinesterase inhibitor galantamine--which is widely reported to increase the frequency of lucid dreaming--prior to engaging in middle-of-the-night meditation and the imaginary reliving of a distressing dream while exercising new...
Journal For Virtual Worlds Research
July 30, 2018
Kevin Healey
Using the grounded theory method (GTM), this article proposes an “integral” model for studying the development and use of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) technologies. Integral models seek holistic understanding by combining third-person, empirical perspectives with first-person, subjective experience. Here, the proposed model provides a comparative analysis of immersive virtual reality...
OPUS
June 7, 2018
Celina Schadow, Michael Schredl, Janina Rieger et al.
20 citations
Lucid dreams are dreams that involve awareness of dreaming while dreaming. As lucid dreaming is accompanied by heightened cortical activation, e.g., in the prefrontal cortex, it was speculated whether lucid dreaming interferes with the restorative function of sleep. Two cross-sectional studies have found inhomogeneous results regarding the relationship between lucid dream frequency and...
Dreaming
May 24, 2018
Melanie Schädlich, Daniel Erlacher
10 citations
In a lucid dream, the dreamer knows that he or she is dreaming and can thus deliberately carry out actions. The original goal of this study was to investigate musical practice in lucid dreams and its possible effects as well as the quality of the experiences. A total of 5 musicians were interviewed about their lucid dreams in which they had played instruments and sung. However, the interviewees...
May 9, 2018
Erik D. Goodwyn
A lucid dream is a dream in which you are aware that you are dreaming. It is therefore a special case which is different from the usual dreams we are discussing. The primary aim is to narrow our focus on lucid dreaming to its relevance in clinical work, and to integrate the phenomenon into the overall theory of dreams as products of the Invisible Storyteller (IS) as well as provide some...
University Library Heidelberg
April 9, 2018
Gulshan Kumar, Arun Sasidharan, Bindu M Kutty
9 citations
Lucid dreaming is a unique state between dreaming sleep and waking, wherein one is aware of being in dream and able to control dream contents. The present study was aimed as a proof-of-concept to a previously proposed idea that combining a cognitive training protocol with auditory cue during sleep could cause effective lucid dreaming induction even among healthy participants who had no history...