Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1983
Paul Tholey
This experiment illustrates that systematic observations in lucid dreams can be used to test hypotheses concerning the relation between dream content and eye movements. The observations were carried out by 5 students who had learned to induce lucid dreams by using the reflection technique developed by the author. Several hypotheses concerning the relation in question could be rejected.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1982
Robert D. Ogilvie, Harry T. Hunt, Paul D. Tyson et al.
61 citations
10 good dream recallers spent 2 nights in the sleep lab during which they were awakened 4 times per night from REM sleep, twice during their highest alpha activity in REM, and twice during low REM alpha. 5 were given alpha feedback training prior to sleep onset. Arousals from high alpha REM sleep yielded significantly higher lucidity ratings. Alpha feedback had no effect upon lucidity or REM...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1981
Stephen P. La Berge, Lynn E. Nagel, William C. Dement et al.
237 citations
SUMMARY: The occurrence of lucid dreaming (dreaming while being conscious that one is dreaming) has been verified for 5 selected subjects who signaled that they knew they were dreaming while continuing to dream during unequivocal REM sleep. The signals consisted of particular dream actions having observable concomitants and were performed in accordance with pre-sleep agreement. The ability of...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1980
Stephen P. La Berge
122 citations
The author was the subject in an investigation of the feasibility of learning to dream lucidly, i.e., while knowing that one is dreaming. During the 3-yr. study, the subject recorded a total of 389 lucid dreams and developed a mnemonic technique for the voluntary induction of lucid dreams (MILD). Without using any induction procedure, the subject reported less than 1 lucid dream per month....
Denis Banchenko, Mykhailo Mykhailovich Kapustin, Tatyana Burilova et al.
preprint
Investigating the Potential for Synchronizing Lucid Dreams in a Group Using Meme and Tag-Meme Theory Within the Framework of the Banchenko Algorithm: An Analysis of Shared Elements and Objects
Remington Mallett
preprint
During lucid moments of a dream, the sleeper is aware of the dream as it is occurring, and as a result can often perform predetermined actions within the dream. This provides a unique opportunity for dream research, as lucid dreamers can send real-time signals from sleep to the external world. Historically, such sleep-to-wake communication from a lucid dream is executed via left-right eye...
Clarita Bonamino, Emma Peters
preprint
Lucid dreaming (LD) is the phenomenon during which dreamers are aware they are dreaming and may be able to influence dream content. Dream manipulation, or dream control, plays a critical role in the applications of LD across both clinical and non-clinical domains and may be a key determinant of therapeutic success. However, not all lucid dreamers are able to effectively influence their dreams,...
Paul Zerr, Nico Adelhöfer, Martin Dresler
preprint
Lucid dreaming allows conscious awareness and control of vivid dream states, however its rarity and instability make neuroscientific experimentation challenging. Recent advances in wearable neurotechnology, large-scale collaborations, citizen neuroscience and artificial intelligence increasingly facilitate the decoding of this intriguing phenomenon.
Pouria Javaheri
Generative world models enable robotic agents to "dream" potential futures for planning. However, modeling rigid-body dynamics in high-dimensional compressed latent spaces (such as NVIDIA Cosmos) presents significant challenges. Standard deterministic approaches often suffer from conditional mean averaging (often visually mistaken for posterior collapse), resulting in blurry predictions, while...
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
August 14, 2026
Zhiyu Cui, Linlin Z Fan
The association between sleep-related phenomena and psychosis has received increasing attention in recent years, as sleep disturbances (e.g., insomnia) have shown robust associations with psychotic symptoms. However, the role of other, more specific sleep processes in psychosis remains unclear, despite their potential importance as symptom-related correlates. Particularly, phenomena such as...