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May 4, 2018
- " Lucid Dreams " (formerly " Lucid Dreams (Forget Me) ") [ 2 ] is a song by American rapper Juice WRLD. It was officially released by Grade A Productions and Interscope Records on May 4, 2018, after previously being released on SoundCloud in June 2017.
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The term lucid dream was coined by Dutch author and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in his 1913 article A Study of Dreams, [5] though descriptions of dreamers being aware that they are dreaming predate the article. [5] Psychologist Stephen LaBerge is widely considered the progenitor and leading pioneer of modern lucid dreaming research. [9]
Although numerous references to lucid dreaming can be found throughout world literature (see LaBerge, 1988a for an overview), the modem nomenclature of lucid dream was not introduced until 1913 by the Dutch psychiatrist Frederik Van Eeden.
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22 hours ago · A California startup called REMspace announced that they achieved communication between two people during lucid dreaming, which might have big implications for how we dream in the future. Lucid ...
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- The role of diet and meditation
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In lucid dreams, the dreamer realizes they are dreaming even as they remain asleep. What is the science behind this intriguing consciousness phenomenon? This special feature looks at the current research.
Can scientists explain lucid dreams? Read this special feature to find out what researchers have learned so far.
Typically, when we dream, we are not aware that we are dreaming, and the most unlikely events, characters, and environments seem real to us.
But now and again, some of us realize that we are in a dream as we are dreaming. This phenomenon is called “lucid dreaming,” and it has stirred the interest of researchers and the public alike.
Learning to control aspects of your dreams can be a great way of exploring activities you could never do in real life, facing and overcoming fears, and learning more about your subconscious.
In a previous special feature on Medical News Today, we have explained what lucid dreams are, talked about some techniques you can apply to achieve them, and looked at whether there are any risks associated with this practice.
It remains unclear how many people experience lucid dreams, but researchers have provided rough estimates based on personal reports they accessed through their studies.
A 2017 study published in the journal Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice referred to estimates suggesting that in a representative population, 51% of the individuals had experienced a lucid dream at least once in their lives, and about 20% experienced lucid dreams at least once a month.
The same study notes that people are more likely to experience spontaneous lucid dreams in their childhood, starting at about 3 and 4 years old. However, the likelihood of lucid dreaming begins to decline in early adolescence.
“After the age of 25, spontaneous onset of lucid dreaming appears to be very infrequent,” the study authors write.
The researchers — who hail from the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg, both in Germany — investigated whether or not personality traits could help predict a person’s likelihood of experiencing lucid dreams.
The study found that openness to an experience correlates positively with lucid dreaming frequency. However, agreeableness —a personality trait that often indicates a person’s level of friendliness and tact in interpersonal relationships — does not.
Denholm Aspy, Ph.D., who researches lucid dreaming, spoke to MNT and suggested that certain neurophysiological or neurochemical factors may also render a person more likely to experience spontaneous lucid dreams.
More often than not, lucid dreaming occurs during the REM (rapid eye movement) phase of sleep, which is also when many regular dreams occur. It is possible that neurochemical peculiarities may play a role in “switching on” parts of our consciousness when they would generally be “switched off.”
“I’m speculating a little bit here, but some people might just tend to produce more of the neurotransmitters that pause REM sleep, typically acetylcholine,” Aspy told us.
“You might have some random variation in neurology or neurochemistry […] I know that people with narcolepsy tend to have a lot more lucid dreams than the average person, and they’re having a lot of sleep disturbances,” he went on to say.
Some anecdotal experiences, as well as some studies, suggest that lucid dreaming may have more in common with the experience of sleep paralysis than that of regular dreaming.
In sleep paralysis, the mind awakens to a certain degree, while the body remains asleep and unable to move. When that happens, individuals usually experience very realistic hallucinations, as though the content of a dream had “leaked” into the real world.
Besides neurochemical and neurophysiological factors, Aspy told us, there may also be other unexpected contributors to whether or not a person is likely to experience lucid dreams. One factor, he explained, could simply be nutrition.
“People that are low in certain vitamins […] they tend to have poor dream recall and not have lucid dreams at all,” Aspy said, “whereas, for example, in my study that I published [in 2017], I found that giving people vitamin B-6 supplements caused them to remember more of their dreams, and that could be useful for having lucid dreams as well.”
In that study — which he previously covered on MNT — Aspy and colleagues found that individuals who took 240 milligrams (mg) of vitamin B-6 for four nights before going to bed found it much easier to remember their dreams when they woke up.
“[G]eneral dream recall is the most important predictor of lucid dreams,” Aspy told MNT. This means that certain changes to the diet might make it more likely that people not only recall their regular dreams when they wake up but also that they can turn regular dreams into lucid dreams more easily.
Another factor that may play a role in a person’s likelihood to experience lucid dreams is meditation. A 2015 study found that people who had practiced meditation for a long time tended to have more lucid dreams.
This, the researchers explain, makes sense because “[a]ttention to the present state of consciousness in wakefulness and contemplating whether the current experience might be a dream is one of the core techniques […] in modern lucid dream practice.”
But what happens in the brain when a person experiences a lucid dream? “Lucid dreaming is a hybrid state of consciousness with features of both waking and dreaming,” write Julian Mutz and Amir-Homayoun Javadi in a review they published in Neuroscience of Consciousness in 2017.
That makes this sleep experience particularly intriguing, all the more so considering that scientists are still unclear about all the brain mechanisms related to regular dreaming.
In their review, Mutz and Javadi looked at previous studies concerning brain activity during sleep and, more specifically, during periods of regular dreaming versus lucid dreaming.
The two researchers found that during lucid dreaming, there is increased activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the bilateral frontopolar prefrontal cortex, the precuneus, the inferior parietal lobules, and the supramarginal gyrus.
These are all brain areas related to higher cognitive functions, including attention, working memory, planning, and self-consciousness.
By looking at the research on lucid dreaming and states of consciousness, the researchers also found that during a lucid dream, “levels of self-determination (i.e., the subjective experience of acting freely according to one’s will)” were similar to those that people experienced during states of wakefulness. During regular dreams, however, self-determination was significantly reduced.
Apr 18, 2022 · It wasn’t until 1913 that Frederik van Eeden coined the term “lucid dream” in an article titled “A Study of Dreams.” In 1968, Celia Green began scientifically studying lucid dreaming, declaring it a unique sleep state associated with rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep.
Jun 19, 2019 · In the Mnemonic Induction Lucid Dream (MILD) technique, one rehearses a dream and visualises becoming lucid while repeating a mantra expressing the same intention, such as: “Next time I’m...
Apr 3, 2024 · In modern scientific literature, lucid dreaming was first described by the French sinologist Marquis d’Hervey de Saint-Denys in 1867 and, more prominently, by the Dutch psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in 1913.
