Consciousness and Cognition
October 1, 2024
Karen R Konkoly, Nathan W Whitmore, Remington Mallett et al.
4 citations
The ability to realize that you're dreaming - lucid dreaming - has value for personal goals and for consciousness research. One route to lucid dreaming is to first undergo pre-sleep training with sensory cues and then receive those cues during REM sleep. This method, Targeted Lucidity Reactivation (TLR), does not demand extensive personal effort but generally requires concurrent polysomnography...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
August 1, 2024
Teresa Campillo-Ferrer, Adriana Alcaraz-Sánchez, Ema Demšar et al.
14 citations
Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are characterized by the subjective experience of being located outside the physical body. Little is known about the neurophysiology of spontaneous OBEs, which are often reported by healthy individuals as occurring during states of reduced vigilance, particularly in proximity to or during sleep (sleep-related OBEs). In this paper, we review the current state of...
Journal of Sports Sciences
August 1, 2024
Clarita Bonamino, Christopher Watling, Remco Polman
During lucid dreaming (LD), dreamers are aware of experiencing a dream and may consciously influence its content. This study used an online questionnaire to investigate the LD frequency and applications in 193 adolescent athletes and non-athletes (17.40 ± 2.09 years; 46% athletes, 54% controls). Given the critical role that sleep plays in adolescent health, development, and performance,...
bioRxiv
June 27, 2024
Claudia Picard-Deland, Mahdad Jafarzadeh Esfahani, Leila Anna Christina Salvesen et al.
preprint
Lucid dreaming occurs when one is aware of dreaming while asleep. While lucid dreaming can occur spontaneously, it remains rare. This multi-center study (Netherlands, Italy, Canada) tested a combined induction approach integrating senses-initiated lucid dreaming (SSILD) with targeted lucidity reactivation in a large sample of participants with varying lucid dreaming experience. Sixty...
Brain Sciences
May 14, 2024
Elena Gerhardt, Benjamin Baird
3 citations
Lucid dreaming involves becoming aware that one’s current experience is a dream, which has similarities with the notion of mindfulness—becoming aware of moment-to-moment changes in experience. Additionally, meta-awareness, the ability to explicitly notice the current content of one’s own mental state, has also been proposed to play an important role both in lucid dreaming and mindfulness...
CHI Extended Abstracts
May 11, 2024
P. Wang, Nathaniel Yung Xiang Lee, Rohit Rajesh et al.
Lucid dreaming is a unique state of consciousness where one is aware of dreaming whilst asleep, allowing the dreamer to control their dream content, offering various mental and physical health benefits. Existing research has utilised lab settings with manual induction techniques with researchers to induce lucid dreams, which is costly and time-consuming. Thus, there is a need for an autonomous...
CHI Extended Abstracts
May 11, 2024
P. Wang, Nathaniel Yung Xiang Lee, Rohit Rajesh et al.
Lucid Dreaming, a unique state of consciousness whilst asleep where dreamers can engage in volitional actions not limited by the constraints of the physical world and control their dream contents, offers various mental and physical health benefits. Current research combining multiple lucid dreaming induction techniques is often conducted in a lab setting, lacking autonomy by relying on...
CHI Extended Abstracts
May 11, 2024
P. Wang, Rohit Rajesh, Nathaniel Yung Xiang Lee et al.
Lucid dreaming, characterized by an awareness of being in a dream, offers individuals the ability to control dream content, which leads to various benefits such as entertainment, improved mental well-being, reduced concurrent nightmares, skills enhancement, creative inspiration, and problem-solving. However, manipulating dream content can be challenging and even experienced lucid dreamers may...
CHI Extended Abstracts
May 2, 2024
P. Wang, Nathaniel Yung Xiang Lee, Rohit Rajesh et al.
Lucid dreaming is a state in which individuals become aware that they are dreaming, allowing dreamers to actively engage in controlling their dream content and transcending the limitations of the physical world. Lucid dreaming offers various mental and physical health benefits. However, current research combining multiple lucid dreaming induction techniques is often conducted with the...
Neuron
April 3, 2024
Paul Zerr, Nico Adelhöfer, Martin Dresler
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.