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A little over half the population has experienced a lucid dream at least once in their lives, according to a 2017 study, and about 20 percent of individuals experience lucid dreams at least once a ...
With other lucid-dream-inducing technologies, sleepers have been able to enter the lucid dream state, but they can quickly forget they are dreaming or get overexcited and wake up, he said.
Dream diaries are also used by some people as a way to help induce lucid dreams, and are regarded as a useful tool in improving dream recall. The use of a dream diary was recommended by Ann Faraday in The Dream Game as an aid to memory and a way to preserve details, many of which are otherwise rapidly forgotten no matter how memorable the dream ...
In the psychology subfield of oneirology, a lucid dream is a type of dream wherein the dreamer realizes that they are dreaming during their dream. The capacity to have lucid dreams is a trainable cognitive skill . [ 1 ]
The experiments found that 46 per cent of participants had lucid dreams when trying the third technique, proving that there are techniques that can improve the chance of lucid dreaming.
A dream character, sometimes abbreviated as DC, is an interactable human-like entity in the person's dream, especially while the person is REM-sleeping. The topic has been profoundly addressed in the lucid dreaming community, since while experiencing a lucid dream, the person can consciously interact with dream characters.
The Lucidity Institute is an incorporated research institute founded in 1987 by Stephen LaBerge that supports lucid dreaming research and development of techniques that help people achieve lucid dreams (conscious dreams).
Jayne Gackenbach (born May 24, 1946) is a dream researcher whose focus is lucid dreaming and other altered states of consciousness. She holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology . She attended Virginia Commonwealth University , graduating in 1978, and went on to research at the University of Northern Iowa for 11 years and then moved to Canada.