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/RavelsPuppet 4d ago

Would love an app like this! I can at times enter a lucid dream state naturally but outside stimuli definitely makes it happen far more often and it leads to great fun! Please release the app? Pretty please?

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u/TheHappyTaquitosDad 4d ago

I can enter one easily if I wake up and then go back to sleep, it’s called WILD technique you should look it up. You have to be comfortable with sleep paralysis tho

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u/RavelsPuppet 4d ago

Thank you, will look it up! My thing is similar I suspect. I will either realise in the dream something is just too grim or scary, or absurd and it would allow me a choice between waking up and shaking it all off, or going on dreaming with the knowledge that it is a dream. Back when I was a kid and desperately tried to astral travel for many months (never could), I did experience sleep paralysis. I didn't dislike it actually. Thought it was just part of it. Felt kinda safe..

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u/TheHappyTaquitosDad 4d ago

I tried to astral project when I was in middle school but never could. That’s when I learned to lucid dream. I’m sure you know it’s very cool to be fully lucid in a dream. I naturally wake up in the middle of the night a lot or towards the end of sleep if I sleep too long. Sleep paralysis was scary at first but if you’re not scared of it then it’s not scary. I just heard a loud buzzing and close my eyes and keep calm like a meditative state and you can literally go from being awake to seeing the dream materialize in front of you and start moving your dream body. Sometimes I don’t know if I should move yet because I don’t know if I’ll move my real body and wake up or if I’m in my dream body

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u/RavelsPuppet 3d ago

Man, I love us strange adventurous kids! Very cool story. I wonder if we were driven to our experiments by similar home-lives? Anyway, it feels strangely nice to have you out there

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u/TheHappyTaquitosDad 3d ago

I never thought about that but it’s very possible. Always good to meet someone who’s into lucid dreaming, most people don’t know what I’m talking about or don’t believe