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- Lucid dreaming is when you know you're dreaming, and it can help with personal goals and studying how our minds work.
- A method called Targeted Lucidity Reactivation (TLR) helps people become lucid dreamers by using sounds they learned before sleep, and it doesn't need fancy machines.
- In experiments, people who used TLR had more lucid dreams and did better when they heard the same sounds they practiced with before going to sleep.
Article Abstract
The ability to realize that you're dreaming - lucid dreaming - has value for personal goals and for consciousness research. One route to lucid dreaming is to first undergo pre-sleep training with sensory cues and then receive those cues during REM sleep. This method, Targeted Lucidity Reactivation (TLR), does not demand extensive personal effort but generally requires concurrent polysomnography to guide cue delivery. Here we translated TLR from a laboratory procedure to a smartphone-based procedure without polysomnography. In a first experiment, participants reported increased lucid dreaming with TLR compared to during the prior week. In a second experiment, we showed increased lucidity with TLR compared to blinded control procedures on alternate nights. Cues during sleep were effective when they were the same sounds from pre-sleep training. Increased lucid dreaming can be ascribed to a strong link formed during training between the sounds and a mindset of carefully analyzing one's current experience.
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