Excerpts from a study initially published in the International Journal Of Dream Research – modified by addition of picture(s) – Neuhäusler, A., Schredl, M., & Göritz, A. S. (2018). General knowledge about lucid dreaming and lucid dream induction techniques: An online study, 11(2), 179–185 – https://doi.org/10.11588/ijodr.2018.2.50491
“General knowledge about lucid dreaming and lucid dream induction techniques: An online study
…The findings indicate that one quarter of all participants had heard of lucid dreaming once or several times via literature, the Internet or friends. An increase in age was negatively correlated to previous knowledge of lucid dreaming whereas female gender and higher education showed a positive correlation to knowledge about lucid dreaming via literature and friends. The lucid dream induction techniques of reality checks, critical questions, hypnosis and supplements are most commonly known to the subsample of the survey participants. Except for hypnosis these techniques are also the most often applied. The total number of techniques that are known correlated negatively with age, but not with gender or education. No significant differences, however, were found for the total number of techniques that were applied. It would be very interesting to study whether the reported application of these induction techniques – carried out in the home setting by the individual alone – had beneficial effects on lucid dream frequency as the efficacy of most induction techniques were only studied within formal research projects…
…The current sample was German speaking; it would be very interesting to carry out similar studies within other cultures…
…it would be interesting to study the differences between persons having lucid dreams but never heard about the phenomenon (literature, internet, friends, etc.) with persons who had external input on that topic.”
“…An online survey (Schädlich & Erlacher, 2012) found 5 main topics what people are doing within their lucid dreams: The majority of respondents (about 80%) make use of their lucid dream abilities for simply having fun: flying, playing games, dancing, etc. Over half (about 60%) benefit from lucid dreams by decreasing their nightmare frequency and intensity. Other applications that were stated are problem solving (about 30%), development of creativity (about 27%) and practice of specific movements (about 21%)…
…only about 20% experience lucid dreams frequently (Schredl & Erlacher, 2011), i.e., having lucid dreams more than once a month (Snyder & Gackenbach, 1988)…
…Interestingly, children seem to become lucid during dreams more frequently than adults (Schredl, Henley-Einion, & Blagrove…
…Japanese student sample revealed a significantly lower lucid dream frequency when compared to Dutch, German and American students (Erlacher, Schredl, Watanabe, Yamana, & Gantzert, 2008)…
… According to Stumbrys et al. (2012), five techniques seem to have a good effectiveness: MILD, reflection, intention, light stimuli, and WBTB…”