This is a network for lucid dreamers and scientists to share research information and lucid dream experiences, connect for future studies, and expand the knowledge of the lucid dream phenomenon.
An interesting study on the relation between “Type 2″ thinking and lucid dreaming… Hopefully, more studies relating to this field will follow… LDF – Lucid Dream Frequency CRT – Cognitive Reflections Test DLPFC – Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Locus Of Control – “…the degree to which people believe that they have[…]
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MIXING PSYCHOLOGY AND REALITY CHECKS – Using Awareness Of Emotions To Induce Reality Checks and Rational Thinking “Metacognition refers to one’s awareness of and ability to regulate one’s own thinking” – https://sites.google.com/a/uwlax.edu/exploring-how-students-learn/what-s-all-the-fuss-about-metacognition “…The differences in volumes in the anterior prefrontal cortex between lucid dreamers and non-lucid dreamers suggest that lucid[…]
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO NEURAL CORRELATES OF LUCID DREAMING “…During lucid dreaming the bilateral precuneus, cuneus, parietal lobules, and prefrontal and occipito-temporal cortices activated strongly as compared with non-lucid REM sleep… …We further observed increased activation in bilateral frontopolar areas, which have been related to the processing of internal states, e.g.,[…]
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Guest Post By Konstantinos Fakinos Here is a small paper with some terms I collected to a list about conscious dreaming from the work of Claude Rifat, “Conscious Dreaming And Controlled Hallucinations”. Links to his work are at the bottom of the attached article. Excerpt: “This article is written mostly[…]
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DISSOCIATION: “In psychology, dissociation is any of a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experiences. The major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involves a detachment from reality, rather than a loss of reality as in psychosis.” – Wikipedia “Terror and bliss? COMMONALITIES AND DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN[…]
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About Applying Hypnosis, Biofeedback, And Transcendental Meditation For Consciousness Altering Methodology… About Applying The Monroe Institute’s Hemi-Sinc Technique… About Synchronization of Brain Hemispheres, Consciousness, And Holograms… “A Brief Synopsis Of The History And Characters Of The Gateway Project” – reddit – by u/SuperFestigio https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6d0nys/a_brief_synopsis_of_the_history_and_characters_of/ “Analysis And Assessment Of The Gateway Experience”[…]
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The Monroe Institute and its SPATIAL ANGLE MODULATION (SAM) technology “The Monroe Institute (TMI) provides experiential education programs facilitating the personal exploration of human consciousness…” “In 2008, The Monroe Institute began to investigate a complementary method of producing the consciousness altering effects… …Rather than binaural beating to achieve its effect, Spatial Angle Modulation™[…]
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What happens in the brain during a lucid dream: “The difference in cognition between the two types of dreaming suggests that lucid dreaming occurs when the frontal parts of the sleeper’s brain — which are normally “off-line” during REM sleep — click back in, bringing back self-consciousness. However, the back[…]
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Differences in brain consistency between lucid dreamers and non-lucid dreamers “The Neuroscience of Lucid Dreams” – Scientific American – By Susana Martinez-Conde “…The research showed that the brains of people with high and low dream lucidity were different. Subjects with high lucidity had greater gray matter volume in the frontopolar[…]
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“Metacognition is “cognition about cognition”, “thinking about thinking“, “knowing about knowing”, becoming “aware of one’s awareness” and higher-order thinking skills.” – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition “Could we one day heal the mind by taking control of our dreams?… …Brain regions involved in meta-cognition are among the most activated in lucid dreaming… …In principle, lucid[…]
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“…But by training higher-level brain processes like the pre-frontal cortex, pro-socials can learn to control these emotions and fight depression..” – Scientific American – MENTAL HEALTH – “Nice Brains Finish Last” – By Jack Turban on November 27, 20 – https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nice-brains-finish-last/ Interesting…since the pre-frontal cortex is highly activated during lucid dreaming, maybe the results of this study will[…]
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Below is a link to a a nice article about sleep paralysis. It includes the following section on how to stop it. “As we’ve said before, sleep paralysis is limited to your voluntary muscle system, such as your arms and legs. Your breathing is semi-voluntary, so even in deep states[…]
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“The Scientific Reason You Can’t Read While You Dream” “Nevertheless, the many parts of the brain that have to do with interpreting language are toward the back and middle of your brain and, in general, are much less active while we are asleep….They include, crucially, two regions known as Broca’s[…]
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“Chaos In The Transition From Sleep To Awake” “The article explores how ions can control the neuronal firing patterns and how the dynamics change in a transition to chaos… This transition represents what happens when organisms go from a sleeping to waking state and could potentially provide a new angle[…]
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THE CONNECTION BETWEEN LSD AND DREAMS “Dreamlike effects of LSD on waking imagery in humans depend on serotonin 2A receptor activation… …LSD produced mental imagery similar to dreaming, primarily via activation of the 5-HT2A receptor and in relation to loss of self-boundaries and cognitive control… ⚡️ …Future psychopharmacological studies should[…]
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“Michio Kaku on the Science of Dreams” – Dr. Michio Kaku summarizing the differences between a regular dream and a lucid dream, and how the pre-frontal cortex plays a role in lucid dreaming – Youtube – Big Think – Michio Kaku on the Science of Dreams | Big Think Michio Kaku[…]
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The various states of lucidity… “The Lucidity Continuum – by E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D. © 1994… ORDINARY WAKING …In waking physical reality (WPR), I usually have my identity focus and “center of gravity” in the thinking levels; e.g. feelings happen to me, and I have little direct conscious control[…]
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SLEEP PARALYSIS – Have you found methods to overcome negative thoughts and experiences? Have you used it for the WILD technique? “…Sleep paralysis is when, during awakening or falling asleep, one is aware but unable to move…During an episode, one may hear, feel, or see things that are not there.[1] It often results[…]
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Interesting new findings in neuroscience… “As above so below: Scientists have found a multidimensional universe inside our brain” …Human brains are estimated to be home to a staggering 86 billion neurons…forming a super-vast cellular network that SOMEHOW makes us capable of thought and consciousness…” The research is published in Frontiers in[…]
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Lucid Dreaming Upside Down – Bringing your night dream world into your day dreaming “Lucid Dreaming, Lucid Waking, Lucid Being…” -A workshop to explore methods for developing enhanced Lucid Beingness in both waking and dreaming states – presented at IASD’s Tenth PsiberDreaming Conference, September 25 – October 9, 2011 “A “lucid waker”[…]
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How do you relate your lucid dreams to spirituality and/or religion? What do you think of Persinger’s arguments? science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/brain-religion2.htm The following are excerpts from Wikipedia relating to Michael Persinger and his experiment with the God Helmet. “…Michael A. Persinger (born June 26, 1945) is a physical neuroscientist and natural philosopher…[…]
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How do you experience time in your lucid dreams? Have you experimented with it? “Do dreams occur in slow motion?” – BBC- Future – By David Robson – 25 November 2014 www.bbc.com/future/story/20141125-do-dreams-occur-in-slow-motion How about this: While lucid dreaming, go back to a point in time when you made a major decision in your[…]
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dreamreserch.net “This Web site contains everything needed to conduct scientific studies of dreams using a system of content analysis. Researchers or college/graduate students interested in doing quantitative research should check out the Resources for Scientists page. If you’d like a multimedia overview of some of our methods and findings, you can watch Bill Domhoff’s lecture entitled[…]
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“A New Measure of Hallucinatory States and a Discussion of REM Sleep Dreaming as a Virtual Laboratory for the Rehearsal of Embodied Cognition” “The current study proposes a new, tighter measure of these hallucinatory states: Sleep onset, REM sleep, and non-REM sleep are shown to differ with regard to (a)[…]
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Prolonged Motor Actions in Lucid Dreams “Time for Actions in Lucid Dreams: Effects of Task Modality, Length, and Complexity” “The relationship between time in dreams and real time has intrigued scientists for centuries.” “In summary, the present study confirms the findings of Erlacher and Schredl (2004) that motor actions lead[…]
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A lucid dream device applying EEG brainwave analogy to induce lucidity with sound effects … “The LdreamM headset induces Lucid Dreams by analyzing the brainwaves (EEG) it receives from 8+2 electrodes and then playing pre-recorded sounds at precisely the right time…” – ldreamm.com/De/index.html
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“Lucid-Dream Machines” “Aside from being able to peer into the digital dreams of machines, other developments in computer technology and neuroscience are allowing us to recreate images directly from patterns of electrical activity in the visual cortex of our brains, thereby opening up the possibility that we can record videos[…]
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“A New Measure of Hallucinatory States and a Discussion of REM Sleep Dreaming as a Virtual Laboratory for the Rehearsal of Embodied Cognition” “This leads us to introduce the hypothesis that REM sleep, which exhibits remarkably high levels of (simulated) sensorimotor processes, may have evolved to serve as a virtual[…]
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“Relationship between lucid dreaming, creativity, and dream characteristics” “The results show that lucid dreamers scored higher on the creative personality scale of the Adjective Checklist and reported a higher DRF than non-lucid dreamers. As to the dream structure, lucid dreamers were more likely to incorporate daytime events into their dreams,[…]
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“Research shows how lucid dreamers produce the fastest brainwave frequencies ever recorded — gamma brainwaves — that operate at 40Hz +.” – Collective Evolution – Arjun Walia – February 13, 2017 – 2017 – http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/02/13/lucid-dreamers-found-to-produce-the-fastest-brainwave-frequencies-ever-recorded/g Gamma Brain Waves “Role in attentive focus The suggested mechanism is that gamma waves relate to neural consciousness[…]
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How to prevent False Awakenings – By Ryan Hurd – Dream Studies Portal – http://dreamstudies.org/2010/05/04/how-to-stop-false-awakening-dreams/ “False Awakening A false awakening may occur following a dream or following a lucid dream (one in which the dreamer has been aware of dreaming). Particularly, if the false awakening follows a lucid dream, the false awakening may[…]
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TheRaRaRabbit – by Maxwell Hunter – A great YouTube channel for lucid dreamers. I find it special because you firsthand experience Max’s personal account of a life with lucid dreaming. A lot to learn from him and an excellent source for understanding lucid dreaming and all aspects related to it. His[…]
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Psychology and Lucid Dreaming A video by Maxwell Hunter, a UK based artist and oneironaut, about lucid dreaming and mental health – Youtube – TheRaRaRabbit – Published on May 24, 2017 Related Post(s): TheRaRaRabbit – A Youtube Channel – Maxwell Hunter Psychology and Lucid Dreaming Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Nightmares[…]
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“All we see & seem is but a dream within a dream” “The illusory nature of physical reality, creative consciousness & the universal mind. Featuring Fred Alan Wolf, Nassim Haramein, Amit Goswami, Jim Al Khalili, Greg Braden, Bill Hicks & David Icke. (music: Rachid Taha “Barra Barra”)” – Youtube – Published[…]
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What is consciousness? – Youtube – theNewHuman2008 – Published on Feb 2, 2009 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=TvmOjGMnap8
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“Exploring the Impact of the Effects of the Supplement Galantamine Paired with Dream Reliving and Meditation on Recalled Dreams” – https://utrgv.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3gte3YKgvhTV9gF University of Texas Rio Grande Valley IRB# 907-90991 This survey is being conducted by: Principal Investigator Gregory Scott Sparrow, EdD, Professor at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley Co-PI Ralph Carlson, PhD, Professor[…]
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What research is being done on how lucid dreaming, or too much lucid dreaming, impacts the benefits of a normal night’s sleep?
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About conscious decision making (volition) and ability to plan (or lack thereof) while having a lucid dream… “Volition or will is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action.” – “…Another study looking at people’s ability to make conscious decisions in waking life as[…]
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“SEARCH ACTIVITY CONCEPT (SAC) is a psychophysiological concept that integrates subject’s behavior, resistance to stress and deteriorating factors, pathogenetic mechanisms of different mental and psychomatic disorders, REM sleep functions and psychosomatic disorders, REM sleep, brain monoamines activity and brain laterality” – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_activity_concept “Dream’s lucidity (the subject’s realization that he/she is dreaming) protects[…]
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“Rehearsing motor skills in a lucid dream enhances subsequent performance in wakefulness.” “Even though the experimental design is not able to explain if specific effects (motor learning) or unspecific effects (motivation) caused the improvement, the results of this study showed that rehearsing in a lucid dream enhances subsequent performance in[…]
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Mental actions (such as counting) happen at the same speed in dreams, but physical actions take longer than in real life. “They found that the “mental action” of counting happened at the same speed regardless of whether volunteers were dreaming or awake, but the “physical actions” took longer in dreams[…]
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Have you ever tried to move your eyes up and down during lucid dreaming (and with it, moving the only muscles you can probably move during a lucid dream)?
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Has lucid dreaming ever helped you to stop nightmares? Related Posts: Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Nightmares with Lucid Dreaming Lucid Dream Therapy in Psychiatry Dream Therapy in Psychiatry Psychology and Lucid Dreaming
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Interesting project/experiment currently conducted in Germany with the goal to understand lucid dreaming from a scientific standpoint. If successful, this would contribute to lucid dreaming being more accessible to people who have thus far not been able to achieve and experiment lucid dreaming. “Development of a reliable lucid dream induction[…]
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ABOUT BRAIN WAVES …”- DELTA waves (below 4 hz) occur during sleep – THETA waves (4-7 hz) are associated with sleep, deep relaxation (like hypnotic relaxation), and visualization – ALPHA waves (8-13 hz) occur when we are relaxed and calm – BETA waves (13-38 hz) occur when we are actively[…]
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