Cognitions in Sleep: Lucid Dreaming as an Intervention for Nightmares in Patients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 About 80% of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients suffer from nightmares or dysphoric dreams that cause major distress and impact nighttime or daytime functioning. Lucid dreaming (LD) is a learnable and effective strategy to cope with nightmares
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Insight and Dissociation in Lucid Dreaming and Psychosis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Dreams and psychosis share several important features regarding symptoms and underlying neurobiology, which is helpful in constructing a testable model of, for example, schizophrenia and delirium.
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Virtual reality as a metacognitive training tool for lucid dreaming [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionLucid dreaming (LD) involves awareness of being in a dream during REM sleep and depends on the reactivation of metacognitive and reality-monitoring processes.
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Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming: A double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Lucid dreaming is a remarkable state of consciousness in which one is aware of the fact that one is dreaming while continuing to dream. Based on the strong relationship between physiological activation during rapid eye-movement sleep and lucid dreaming ...
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My Dream, My Rules: Can Lucid Dreaming Treat Nightmares? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Nightmares are defined as repeated occurrences of extremely dysphoric and well-remembered dreams that usually involve subjective threats to survival, security, or physical integrity.
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Lucid Dreaming: Intensity, But Not Frequency, Is Inversely Related to Psychopathology [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Lucid dreaming (LD) is awareness that one is dreaming, during the dream state. However, some define and assess LD relying also on controlling dream events, although control is present only in a subset of lucid dreams.
Liat Aviram, Nirit Soffer-Dudek
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Distinguishing out-of-body experiences from lucid dreaming: a phenomenological analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyDespite extensive discussions, a consensus is lacking on whether out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and lucid dreams (LDs) should be considered as distinct categories of experience, and if so, what differentiates them.
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The Dream of God: How Do Religion and Science See Lucid Dreaming and Other Conscious States During Sleep? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Lucid dreaming (LD) began to be scientifically studied in the last century, but various religions have highlighted the importance of LD in their doctrines for a much longer period. Hindus’ manuscripts dating back over 2,000 years ago, for example, divide
Sergio A. Mota-Rolim +8 more
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Virtual Reality Training of Lucid Dreaming [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Martin Dresler +2 more
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Juggling the Limits of Lucidity: Searching for Cognitive Constraints in Lucid Dream Motor Practice: 4 Case Reports [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Lucid dreaming (LD), during which the dreamer becomes aware of the dream state, offers a unique opportunity for a variety of applications, including motor practice, personal well-being, and nightmare therapy.
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