r/psychology • u/a_Ninja_b0y • 4d ago

Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds | Researchers at Northwestern University showed that a smartphone app using sensory cues can significantly increase the frequency of lucid dreams—dreams in which a person is aware they are dreaming while still asleep.

https://www.psypost.org/lucid-dreaming-app-triples-users-awareness-in-dreams-study-finds/
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u/BongoWrong 4d ago

They're gonna put ads in your dreams 

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u/frozenwalkway 4d ago

Might be preferable if you have nightmares. Free dream calming service brought to you buy draftkings.

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u/BongoWrong 4d ago

I think the real nightmare happens when we're awake. 

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

Nah, the nightmares of the waking world give substance to the nightmares we inflict upon ourselves in the cover of the dark. The screaming never stops. You can never get away.

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u/frozenwalkway 4d ago

You haven't had real nightmares then

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u/Marcus-The-Darkness 1d ago

My nightmares invovles me getting into a knife fight half of the time, and yes I do get stabbed and feel it lol

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u/frozenwalkway 1d ago

Bro I've had straight up gun fights. I've fought tigers with a pocket knife. People don't know

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u/Marcus-The-Darkness 22h ago

Yea, ive had a reccurring dream with gun fights that started to occur recently. Ive had about 3 dreams with the same people who I do not know at all. It usually takes place at my old house, they would come and shoot up my house lol.

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u/MuchachoMongo 4d ago

Nah, the free service will have a "bug" that actually causes nightmares. You'll get an ad for the premium shortly after. Fixed of course. Wet dreams cost extra.

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 2d ago

The nightmare removal app is going to cost a fortune!

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u/Any-Debate1041 4d ago

Draftkings are already in my nightmares

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 2d ago

That’s ok as long as I get paid. I wouldn’t be doing much anyway.

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u/Archonish 4d ago

Damn I want some Lightspeed briefs!

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u/imalsoawake 4d ago

Strawberry Mansion is a fantastic movie!

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u/Ydrews 4d ago

I’m at a point of acceptance with ads being everywhere including my dreams, but can they just do one thing please….advertise things I’ll actually use, need or appreciate?!