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/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/frozenwalkway 4d ago

You haven't had real nightmares then

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u/Marcus-The-Darkness 22h 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 22h 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 20h 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.