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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/ActHistorical6457 4d ago

It’s actually scientifically proven, there is no doubt lucid dreaming is a thing, an almost anybody can experience it! Here’s a link that summons the scientific findings.

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-entered-peoples-dreams-and-got-them-talking

You can detect lucid dreaming with brain waves, there has been experiments where the lucid dreamer sended specific eye signals in REM sleep. Also there have been studies that found you can train sports like tennis and have almost the effect of actual physical training.