Guides
Lucid dreaming guides
What is lucid dreaming? A lucid dream is a dream in which you know you are dreaming while it is happening. About half of people have had at least one, and around a quarter have one most months (Saunders et al., 2016). In sleep labs, lucid dreamers have answered questions with eye movements from inside REM sleep (Konkoly et al., 2021).
WILD stands for wake-initiated lucid dreaming: staying aware as your body falls asleep, and entering the dream already knowing. These guides cover the method, the states you pass through on the way, and how to do it safely. Each one cites its sources.
- How to do WILD (wake-initiated lucid dreaming)Step by step: staying aware while your body falls asleep, and what you will feel on the way.
- Hypnagogia: the state between waking and sleepThe images, sounds and sensations at the edge of sleep, and how to use them.
- Sleep paralysis and lucid dreamingWhy it happens, what to do in an episode, and how it links to lucid dreams.
- Is lucid dreaming safe?What the research says about risks and benefits, and how to protect your sleep.
Sources
- Saunders, D. T., Roe, C. A., Smith, G., & Clegg, H. (2016). Lucid dreaming incidence: a quality effects meta-analysis of 50 years of research. Consciousness and Cognition, 43, 197–215. doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.06.002
- Konkoly, K. R., Paller, K. A., et al. (2021). Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep. Current Biology. Summary from Northwestern University. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/02/lucid-dreams-ken-paller
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