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💁🏻♀️ TIL: Two aphantasic researchers asked whether aphantasics #dream like they imagine.
Most showed consistency between waking and dream sensations, though some reported no link at all. Even non-aphantasics showed wide variation in dream #smells and touch.
#aphantasia #dreams #imagination #neuroscience #science #psychology #luciddreaming
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: Two aphantasic researchers asked whether aphantasics #dream like they imagine.
Most showed consistency between waking and dream sensations, though some reported no link at all. Even non-aphantasics showed wide variation in dream #smells and touch.
#aphantasia #dreams #imagination #neuroscience #science #psychology #luciddreaming
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LUCID DREAMING (Alemanya) presenta nou àlbum: "Upon the Barricades" #LucidDreaming #PowerMetal #Juliol2026 #Alemanya #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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LUCID DREAMING (Alemanya) presenta nou àlbum: "Upon the Barricades" #LucidDreaming #PowerMetal #Juliol2026 #Alemanya #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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DATE: June 21, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Scientists uncover the physical signs of lucid dreaming in people with trauma symptoms
A recent study published in the journal Dreaming suggests that specific sleep patterns, such as the time it takes to fall asleep and the amount of interrupted sleep, can predict the likelihood of experiencing a lucid dream among individuals with trauma symptoms. These findings provide evidence that the physical characteristics of a person’s sleep cycle are intimately connected to their conscious awareness during dreaming. The research offers a deeper understanding of how tracking physical rest metrics might aid in treating trauma-related nightmares.
Lucid dreaming is a unique state of consciousness where a sleeping person becomes aware that they are dreaming and can sometimes control the events unfolding in the dream. This phenomenon tends to occur mostly during rapid eye movement sleep, the stage of the night associated with vivid dreaming and elevated brain activity. The experience represents a hybrid state that blends the imaginative visuals of a dream with the self-awareness usually reserved for waking life.
Psychological professionals are increasingly interested in the therapeutic potential of this state of awareness. For people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic nightmares are a common and highly distressing symptom. Achieving lucidity during a nightmare provides a safe environment for an individual to recognize that the threat is not real.
By gaining control over the dream narrative, people experiencing trauma symptoms can confront and reprocess their fears without becoming emotionally overwhelmed. Previous research provides evidence that specialized training can reduce trauma symptoms, even if full dream control is not achieved. Recognizing that one is dreaming can shift a terrifying ordeal into an opportunity for emotional regulation.
“This study was motivated by two related questions,” said Arnaud Delorme, a researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Novato, California, and the University of California San Diego. “First, although lucid dreaming has been proposed as a potential therapeutic tool for people with PTSD, relatively little is known about the specific sleep characteristics associated with lucid dream occurrence in this population.”
Delorme noted that recent advances in wearable technology have made it possible to record brain activity over many nights at home. “We wanted to identify which objective sleep metrics were most strongly associated with nights in which participants reported lucid dreams,” he explained.
To explore these connections, the authors recruited adults experiencing chronic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The study accepted participants with varying sources of trauma, such as combat veterans and accident survivors. Following an online workshop designed to teach lucid dreaming techniques, the participants monitored their rest at home.
The sample consisted of 27 participants, including 22 females and 5 males, with an average age of about 46 years. These individuals wore a flexible, four-channel brainwave-recording headband while they slept. This device, known as an electroencephalogram, uses sensors placed on the forehead and behind the ears to record electrical activity in the brain.
Participants were instructed to wear the headband throughout the night and remove it upon waking. Each morning, they used their personal devices to complete a survey detailing their dream experiences from the previous night. This survey assessed different types of awareness, such as recognizing that dream elements were not real or knowing their physical body was asleep in bed.
In total, the researchers gathered 168 nights of sleep data. After removing incomplete records and files with poor signal quality, they analyzed 120 complete nights of sleep. Out of these usable recordings, participants reported experiencing lucid dreams on 23 nights.
The authors used advanced statistical models to evaluate 51 distinct sleep factors and identify the strongest predictors of conscious dreaming. They employed a mathematical technique that selects the most important variables while ignoring less relevant data. This approach ensures that the model identifies patterns that are genuinely associated with the outcomes rather than random noise.
“We found that lucid dreaming was associated with a specific pattern of sleep characteristics,” Delorme told PsyPost. “Participants were more likely to report lucid dreams on nights with shorter sleep onset latency, greater wakefulness after sleep onset, and lower low-delta activity during REM sleep. These findings suggest that lucid dreaming is linked to measurable differences in sleep physiology rather than being a purely subjective experience.”
The strongest predictor was sleep onset latency, which is the time it takes a person to transition from being awake to falling asleep. A shorter transition period was associated with lucid dreaming, which suggests that falling asleep quickly tends to increase the likelihood of becoming aware during a dream.
“One notable finding was the consistency with which sleep onset latency emerged as the strongest predictor across all cross-validation folds,” Delorme said. Cross-validation is a mathematical method where scientists test their model on different portions of the data to ensure the results are reliable. This consistent result indicates a strong mathematical relationship between falling asleep rapidly and achieving dream awareness.
Another significant factor was the amount of time participants spent awake after initially falling asleep. The data provides evidence that more interrupted sleep is positively associated with lucid dreams. Waking up frequently during the night might facilitate a heightened state of consciousness when the individual transitions back into sleep, bringing a trace of waking awareness into the dream state.
“We were also struck by the association between increased wakefulness after sleep onset and lucid dreaming, which supports the idea that certain forms of sleep fragmentation may facilitate lucidity rather than simply reflecting poorer sleep,” Delorme added.
The researchers also looked at specific types of brainwaves, particularly slow electrical pulses known as delta waves. These waves, which cycle at one to two times per second, are typically associated with very deep, restorative rest. The study found that lower delta wave activity during rapid eye movement sleep was associated with a higher likelihood of experiencing a lucid dream.
This finding suggests that a lighter or less consolidated state of sleep creates the cognitive conditions necessary for lucidity. When the brain exhibits fewer slow waves during this dreaming phase, it may maintain a higher level of electrical excitability. This heightened brain activity could support the complex self-reflection required to realize one is dreaming.
As with all research, there are some caveats. The total number of nights where participants reported lucid dreaming was relatively small. This low occurrence rate reduces the statistical power of the analysis, which means some subtle connections between sleep metrics and dreaming might have gone unnoticed.
“The study was exploratory and involved a relatively small number of lucid dream nights,” Delorme said. “Therefore, the results should be viewed primarily as identifying promising predictors rather than establishing precise effect sizes. The practical significance lies in highlighting sleep characteristics that may help guide future research and interventions aimed at promoting lucid dreaming.”
A potential misinterpretation of the findings is that intentionally disrupting rest is a healthy way to induce lucid dreams. While fragmented sleep was associated with more lucidity, chronic sleep interruption can worsen overall well-being and exacerbate trauma symptoms.
Delorme warned against intentionally waking up multiple times to chase a lucid dream. “Our findings do not imply that fragmented sleep is necessarily beneficial or that people should intentionally disrupt their sleep to increase lucid dreaming,” he said. “The observed associations are correlational and do not establish causation. Moreover, maintaining overall sleep health remains important, especially for individuals with PTSD.”
Another limitation involves the technology used to monitor the participants. Because the researchers prioritized a single reliable sensor channel to ensure clean data, they could not map out exactly where in the brain the activity was happening. Using only one channel restricts the ability to localize neural activity with high spatial precision.
The methodology also presented a potential issue with how sleep stages were classified. The algorithm that determined whether a participant was in light sleep, deep sleep, or dreaming used the same brainwave frequencies that the researchers later analyzed. This overlap creates a slight circularity in the data interpretation, meaning the observed differences might partly reflect the software’s sorting rules rather than pure brain behavior.
“Future studies should include larger samples, more lucid dream events, and more detailed assessments of dream recall and lucidity strength,” Delorme said regarding the next steps for this research. “We are also interested in using methods that can better characterize transient neural events during REM sleep and in determining whether sleep-based interventions can safely enhance therapeutic lucid dreaming for nightmare sufferers.”
While the participants all suffered from trauma symptoms, the findings might apply to others who want to explore conscious dreaming. The physical patterns observed in this study align with broader research on how the brain achieves awareness during rest.
“One encouraging aspect of the results is that many of the identified predictors are consistent with findings from the broader lucid dreaming literature, suggesting that the mechanisms observed in individuals with PTSD may have relevance beyond this specific population,” Delorme said. “At the same time, PTSD presents unique sleep challenges, making it important to study these relationships directly in affected individuals.”
The study, “Lucid Dreaming and Sleep Characteristics in PTSD,” was authored by Arnaud Delorme, Garret Yount, Maurice Abou Jaoude, Chris Aimone, Sitara Taddeo, Tadas Stumbrys, Cédric Cannard, and Helané Wahbeh.
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DATE: June 21, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Scientists uncover the physical signs of lucid dreaming in people with trauma symptoms
A recent study published in the journal Dreaming suggests that specific sleep patterns, such as the time it takes to fall asleep and the amount of interrupted sleep, can predict the likelihood of experiencing a lucid dream among individuals with trauma symptoms. These findings provide evidence that the physical characteristics of a person’s sleep cycle are intimately connected to their conscious awareness during dreaming. The research offers a deeper understanding of how tracking physical rest metrics might aid in treating trauma-related nightmares.
Lucid dreaming is a unique state of consciousness where a sleeping person becomes aware that they are dreaming and can sometimes control the events unfolding in the dream. This phenomenon tends to occur mostly during rapid eye movement sleep, the stage of the night associated with vivid dreaming and elevated brain activity. The experience represents a hybrid state that blends the imaginative visuals of a dream with the self-awareness usually reserved for waking life.
Psychological professionals are increasingly interested in the therapeutic potential of this state of awareness. For people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic nightmares are a common and highly distressing symptom. Achieving lucidity during a nightmare provides a safe environment for an individual to recognize that the threat is not real.
By gaining control over the dream narrative, people experiencing trauma symptoms can confront and reprocess their fears without becoming emotionally overwhelmed. Previous research provides evidence that specialized training can reduce trauma symptoms, even if full dream control is not achieved. Recognizing that one is dreaming can shift a terrifying ordeal into an opportunity for emotional regulation.
“This study was motivated by two related questions,” said Arnaud Delorme, a researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Novato, California, and the University of California San Diego. “First, although lucid dreaming has been proposed as a potential therapeutic tool for people with PTSD, relatively little is known about the specific sleep characteristics associated with lucid dream occurrence in this population.”
Delorme noted that recent advances in wearable technology have made it possible to record brain activity over many nights at home. “We wanted to identify which objective sleep metrics were most strongly associated with nights in which participants reported lucid dreams,” he explained.
To explore these connections, the authors recruited adults experiencing chronic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The study accepted participants with varying sources of trauma, such as combat veterans and accident survivors. Following an online workshop designed to teach lucid dreaming techniques, the participants monitored their rest at home.
The sample consisted of 27 participants, including 22 females and 5 males, with an average age of about 46 years. These individuals wore a flexible, four-channel brainwave-recording headband while they slept. This device, known as an electroencephalogram, uses sensors placed on the forehead and behind the ears to record electrical activity in the brain.
Participants were instructed to wear the headband throughout the night and remove it upon waking. Each morning, they used their personal devices to complete a survey detailing their dream experiences from the previous night. This survey assessed different types of awareness, such as recognizing that dream elements were not real or knowing their physical body was asleep in bed.
In total, the researchers gathered 168 nights of sleep data. After removing incomplete records and files with poor signal quality, they analyzed 120 complete nights of sleep. Out of these usable recordings, participants reported experiencing lucid dreams on 23 nights.
The authors used advanced statistical models to evaluate 51 distinct sleep factors and identify the strongest predictors of conscious dreaming. They employed a mathematical technique that selects the most important variables while ignoring less relevant data. This approach ensures that the model identifies patterns that are genuinely associated with the outcomes rather than random noise.
“We found that lucid dreaming was associated with a specific pattern of sleep characteristics,” Delorme told PsyPost. “Participants were more likely to report lucid dreams on nights with shorter sleep onset latency, greater wakefulness after sleep onset, and lower low-delta activity during REM sleep. These findings suggest that lucid dreaming is linked to measurable differences in sleep physiology rather than being a purely subjective experience.”
The strongest predictor was sleep onset latency, which is the time it takes a person to transition from being awake to falling asleep. A shorter transition period was associated with lucid dreaming, which suggests that falling asleep quickly tends to increase the likelihood of becoming aware during a dream.
“One notable finding was the consistency with which sleep onset latency emerged as the strongest predictor across all cross-validation folds,” Delorme said. Cross-validation is a mathematical method where scientists test their model on different portions of the data to ensure the results are reliable. This consistent result indicates a strong mathematical relationship between falling asleep rapidly and achieving dream awareness.
Another significant factor was the amount of time participants spent awake after initially falling asleep. The data provides evidence that more interrupted sleep is positively associated with lucid dreams. Waking up frequently during the night might facilitate a heightened state of consciousness when the individual transitions back into sleep, bringing a trace of waking awareness into the dream state.
“We were also struck by the association between increased wakefulness after sleep onset and lucid dreaming, which supports the idea that certain forms of sleep fragmentation may facilitate lucidity rather than simply reflecting poorer sleep,” Delorme added.
The researchers also looked at specific types of brainwaves, particularly slow electrical pulses known as delta waves. These waves, which cycle at one to two times per second, are typically associated with very deep, restorative rest. The study found that lower delta wave activity during rapid eye movement sleep was associated with a higher likelihood of experiencing a lucid dream.
This finding suggests that a lighter or less consolidated state of sleep creates the cognitive conditions necessary for lucidity. When the brain exhibits fewer slow waves during this dreaming phase, it may maintain a higher level of electrical excitability. This heightened brain activity could support the complex self-reflection required to realize one is dreaming.
As with all research, there are some caveats. The total number of nights where participants reported lucid dreaming was relatively small. This low occurrence rate reduces the statistical power of the analysis, which means some subtle connections between sleep metrics and dreaming might have gone unnoticed.
“The study was exploratory and involved a relatively small number of lucid dream nights,” Delorme said. “Therefore, the results should be viewed primarily as identifying promising predictors rather than establishing precise effect sizes. The practical significance lies in highlighting sleep characteristics that may help guide future research and interventions aimed at promoting lucid dreaming.”
A potential misinterpretation of the findings is that intentionally disrupting rest is a healthy way to induce lucid dreams. While fragmented sleep was associated with more lucidity, chronic sleep interruption can worsen overall well-being and exacerbate trauma symptoms.
Delorme warned against intentionally waking up multiple times to chase a lucid dream. “Our findings do not imply that fragmented sleep is necessarily beneficial or that people should intentionally disrupt their sleep to increase lucid dreaming,” he said. “The observed associations are correlational and do not establish causation. Moreover, maintaining overall sleep health remains important, especially for individuals with PTSD.”
Another limitation involves the technology used to monitor the participants. Because the researchers prioritized a single reliable sensor channel to ensure clean data, they could not map out exactly where in the brain the activity was happening. Using only one channel restricts the ability to localize neural activity with high spatial precision.
The methodology also presented a potential issue with how sleep stages were classified. The algorithm that determined whether a participant was in light sleep, deep sleep, or dreaming used the same brainwave frequencies that the researchers later analyzed. This overlap creates a slight circularity in the data interpretation, meaning the observed differences might partly reflect the software’s sorting rules rather than pure brain behavior.
“Future studies should include larger samples, more lucid dream events, and more detailed assessments of dream recall and lucidity strength,” Delorme said regarding the next steps for this research. “We are also interested in using methods that can better characterize transient neural events during REM sleep and in determining whether sleep-based interventions can safely enhance therapeutic lucid dreaming for nightmare sufferers.”
While the participants all suffered from trauma symptoms, the findings might apply to others who want to explore conscious dreaming. The physical patterns observed in this study align with broader research on how the brain achieves awareness during rest.
“One encouraging aspect of the results is that many of the identified predictors are consistent with findings from the broader lucid dreaming literature, suggesting that the mechanisms observed in individuals with PTSD may have relevance beyond this specific population,” Delorme said. “At the same time, PTSD presents unique sleep challenges, making it important to study these relationships directly in affected individuals.”
The study, “Lucid Dreaming and Sleep Characteristics in PTSD,” was authored by Arnaud Delorme, Garret Yount, Maurice Abou Jaoude, Chris Aimone, Sitara Taddeo, Tadas Stumbrys, Cédric Cannard, and Helané Wahbeh.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #LucidDreaming #PTSD # trauma sleep #dreamtherapy #sleepresearch #REMsleep #sleeponsetlatency #deltawaves #nightmares #wearabletech
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I told myself in my dream to remember the story (in my dream) so I could write it down when I woke up, but then I totally forgot... dang, it was a good story too.
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I told myself in my dream to remember the story (in my dream) so I could write it down when I woke up, but then I totally forgot... dang, it was a good story too.
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Want to try lucid dreaming? The easiest reality check is the nose pinch test.
👉 In real life: pinch your nose & try to breathe → air stops.
👉 In a dream: do the same → you'll still breathe through the pinch.That impossible breath = you're dreaming.
Try it today.
#LucidDreaming #DreamHack #RealityCheck #Mindfulness #ClearDream
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Want to try lucid dreaming? The easiest reality check is the nose pinch test.
👉 In real life: pinch your nose & try to breathe → air stops.
👉 In a dream: do the same → you'll still breathe through the pinch.That impossible breath = you're dreaming.
Try it today.
#LucidDreaming #DreamHack #RealityCheck #Mindfulness #ClearDream
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Most of my life when I heard of #hypnosis, #meditation, #LucidDreaming and basically any altered mind state, it was always in context of some occult/witchcraft practices. It shaped my expectations about these phenomena and for many years I thought I should develop some supernatural powers or else it would be shameful failure.
(Of course it destroyed my already poor self-esteem :/)Some time after I recovered from this "I have to gain psychic powers" mindset I noticed one thing. In that magic context meditation training is often described as something forced, fighting agains own mind, hard effort. In contrast, when meditation (and any relaxation/mental exercises) is mentioned in more health of wellnes-related topics it's something calm, peaceful, pleasant. More like letting things go, not make them by force.
And it's really big difference. When my perception of it shifted, I started noticing any progress in meditation and "keeping my mind quiet and calm".
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Most of my life when I heard of #hypnosis, #meditation, #LucidDreaming and basically any altered mind state, it was always in context of some occult/witchcraft practices. It shaped my expectations about these phenomena and for many years I thought I should develop some supernatural powers or else it would be shameful failure.
(Of course it destroyed my already poor self-esteem :/)Some time after I recovered from this "I have to gain psychic powers" mindset I noticed one thing. In that magic context meditation training is often described as something forced, fighting agains own mind, hard effort. In contrast, when meditation (and any relaxation/mental exercises) is mentioned in more health of wellnes-related topics it's something calm, peaceful, pleasant. More like letting things go, not make them by force.
And it's really big difference. When my perception of it shifted, I started noticing any progress in meditation and "keeping my mind quiet and calm".
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More seriously I realized at least for 10-11 years I just don't have to do anything specific to reach this "I don't feel my limbs" state. When I lie down and don't move it just happens automatically. It's even easier than in the past when I purposely tried to learn relax techniques for #meditation and #LucidDreaming because now, without setting a goal, there is no pressure to "succeed". Sometimes I try to use that already present state to meditation training. Or try to remember this state to somehow use it later for stress/anxiety relief (still not sure how).
It's kind of funny, when I need to do something and have to remind myself how to e.g. use my hand. Similar mental focus like in breaking sleep paralysis, even if not so much effort needed. Muscles are not really turned down, just my brain? mind? thinks they are unusable. Like hypnosis therapy depicted in movies... " Now your legs are very heavy" :blobCat_giggle:
And yes, I am weird freak who really loves #SleepParalysis.
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More seriously I realized at least for 10-11 years I just don't have to do anything specific to reach this "I don't feel my limbs" state. When I lie down and don't move it just happens automatically. It's even easier than in the past when I purposely tried to learn relax techniques for #meditation and #LucidDreaming because now, without setting a goal, there is no pressure to "succeed". Sometimes I try to use that already present state to meditation training. Or try to remember this state to somehow use it later for stress/anxiety relief (still not sure how).
It's kind of funny, when I need to do something and have to remind myself how to e.g. use my hand. Similar mental focus like in breaking sleep paralysis, even if not so much effort needed. Muscles are not really turned down, just my brain? mind? thinks they are unusable. Like hypnosis therapy depicted in movies... " Now your legs are very heavy" :blobCat_giggle:
And yes, I am weird freak who really loves #SleepParalysis.
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This week I had some of the wildest, most vivid dreams.
On three different nights, the dreams were so immersive that I could feel sensations like rain and wind. Emotionally, they were incredibly raw. I woke up one morning crying, and another morning, livid. I often have lucid dreams, but these felt more real.
I kept thinking, what’s changed? After some reflection, I realized the only thing different about those nights was that I took 1000mg of Tylenol (acetaminophen) right before bed. I’d been taking it regularly for a few weeks due to a serious injury, but recently had stopped, except for those three nights.
Curious, I did some digging and found out that taking Tylenol before bed has actually been linked, for some people, to more vivid or emotionally intense dreams. 😮 I had never heard of this before!
Just wanted to share in case anyone else has noticed something similar. The power of these dreams has really stayed with me and given me a lot to reflect on.
*Note: This IS NOT medical advice or a recommendation. Taking any kind of medication, over the counter or not, has real risks, especially at higher doses. Please use only as directed and talk to a doctor if you have any questions.*
#Dreams #LucidDreaming #VividDreams #Acetaminophen #Tylenol #DreamJournal #SleepScience
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This week I had some of the wildest, most vivid dreams.
On three different nights, the dreams were so immersive that I could feel sensations like rain and wind. Emotionally, they were incredibly raw. I woke up one morning crying, and another morning, livid. I often have lucid dreams, but these felt more real.
I kept thinking, what’s changed? After some reflection, I realized the only thing different about those nights was that I took 1000mg of Tylenol (acetaminophen) right before bed. I’d been taking it regularly for a few weeks due to a serious injury, but recently had stopped, except for those three nights.
Curious, I did some digging and found out that taking Tylenol before bed has actually been linked, for some people, to more vivid or emotionally intense dreams. 😮 I had never heard of this before!
Just wanted to share in case anyone else has noticed something similar. The power of these dreams has really stayed with me and given me a lot to reflect on.
*Note: This IS NOT medical advice or a recommendation. Taking any kind of medication, over the counter or not, has real risks, especially at higher doses. Please use only as directed and talk to a doctor if you have any questions.*
#Dreams #LucidDreaming #VividDreams #Acetaminophen #Tylenol #DreamJournal #SleepScience
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@neve
Which feels closer to my writing process: Daydreaming, where I consciously imagine and guide the scene? Or lucid dreaming, where the story unfolds around me and I try to influence it from inside? Neither?When I'm really in the groove, my process moves toward lucid dreaming. But mostly, it hangs on the outside and I work towards those moments of inspiration.
#Writephant #writingcommunity #Writersofmastodon #luciddreaming
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@neve
Which feels closer to my writing process: Daydreaming, where I consciously imagine and guide the scene? Or lucid dreaming, where the story unfolds around me and I try to influence it from inside? Neither?When I'm really in the groove, my process moves toward lucid dreaming. But mostly, it hangs on the outside and I work towards those moments of inspiration.
#Writephant #writingcommunity #Writersofmastodon #luciddreaming
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When She Dreams "As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head" Sale: $9.79 to $2.99 by Amanda Quick Rating: 4.5/5 (4,153 Reviews) #HistoricalThriller #RomanticSuspense #LucidDreaming #1930s #Mystery #Books #BurningCove #AmandaQuick #BookSky
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When She Dreams "As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head" Sale: $9.79 to $2.99 by Amanda Quick Rating: 4.5/5 (4,153 Reviews) #HistoricalThriller #RomanticSuspense #LucidDreaming #1930s #Mystery #Books #BurningCove #AmandaQuick #BookSky
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CW: Artificial text - On few occasion it's also funny. Meow
Introducing 'Eye Dreams Co.' - We sell custom phosphene visualizations! Project abstract shapes & colors onto your eyelids while you sleep to 'enhance' your subconscious creativity. Limited edition glow-in-the-dark eye masks included! #phosphenes #luciddreaming #innovation
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Recently finished a new "My experience with" minizine on lucid dreaming! It was fun trying to come up with an illustration to represent this topic without eyes (open or closed), brains/heads, or thought bubbles.
Available from my mail order catalogue! 🇨🇦 https://humangray.com/mail-order-catalogue
#dreams #LucidDreams #zines #dreaming #LucidDreaming #BuyCanadian
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Gareth Branwyn in Slumberland
The Plutopia News Network podcast welcomes writer, editor, and media critic Gareth Branwyn to discuss his workshop “Dreaming for Creatives,” which focuses less on dream symbolism or interpretation and more on mining the “dream-time mind” for usable creative material. Gareth and the Plutopians reminisce about early-1990s zine and cyberculture scenes (The WELL, FactSheet 5, bOING bOING, Mondo 2000, “Jargon Watch,” and “Street Tech”), then shift into Branwyn’s lifelong dream practice, including lucid dreaming as a teen and techniques to improve dream recall, especially using a “dream recall tally sheet” and the habit of staying still upon waking to retrieve dream fragments. He describes three liminal sources of creativity: “night thoughts” (hypnagogic scribbles), “night bulbs” (clear middle-of-the-night insights), and dreams themselves. He gives examples of how these have shaped his work and even his name. The conversation also touches on “second sleep,” sleep tracking, recurring flying dreams, sleep paralysis and its eerie “presence” hallucinations, and the idea that paying attention to dreaming, like meditation, can deepen one’s relationship with consciousness — while still warning against turning dream work into an unhealthy obsession.
https://media.blubrry.com/plutopia_news_network/plutopia.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Gareth-Branwyn.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Gareth Branwyn:
I’ve only done the workshop once so far, and one thing I wanted to make, clear because when I started talking it up before I did it — people immediately think you’re going to talk about dream interpretation, dream symbolism, which I have basically no interest in, besides the obvious things of that was clearly an anxiety dream, like I lost my wallet, or I lost my phone (I have those a lot) or I got lost at a conference. But I’m not interested in that at all, and so I really needed to make it clear that’s not what this is about. This is really mining your dream time mind for creative material. That’s really what my interest is.
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Going through my old lucid dream journal. Here's a good one from about 5-6 years ago:
"I was in a large field. I yelled, 'I'm lucid!!!' and then went on a relative rampage of doing things because I was lucid, including:
- making a mushroom grow into a giant tree
- envisioning a pheasant-like bird and then riding it
- tried to eat some of the wood chips from the ground to explore sensory aspects (it tasted bad)."There was other stuff, but the above cracked me up.
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I found a lucid dream interpreter that guides you through understanding dreams where awareness and control come into play. It provides a simple way to reflect on dream imagery and connect it with personal growth or spiritual insight — a fascinating tool for anyone curious about the deeper layers of their dream life.
Check it out here: https://www.authorkennethgray.com/lucid-dream-interpreter/
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Lucid dreaming could be used for mental health therapy, new study says
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-lucid-mental-health-therapy.html
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Lucid dreaming could be used for mental health therapy, new study says
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-lucid-mental-health-therapy.html
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
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#Dreams Last night I #LucidDreaming and was successfully plotting my next novel. I actually woke up to some useful material. Looks like we are going to Edo era. #AmWriting
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#Dreams Last night I #LucidDreaming and was successfully plotting my next novel. I actually woke up to some useful material. Looks like we are going to Edo era. #AmWriting
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A group of researchers and technologists are building high-tech sleep masks and “other trippy brain-interference technology” to make lucid dreaming a reality. Read more from @sciencefocus:
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A group of researchers and technologists are building high-tech sleep masks and “other trippy brain-interference technology” to make lucid dreaming a reality. Read more from @sciencefocus:
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On a very few occasions I’ve had #dreams while my eyes are open. I’m asleep—a couple times when napping on an afternoon, a few more at night, in the dark. My dream self is involved in the dream action but my eyes are seeing the room in front of my face. Or darkness. The dream scenario is happening, but I can’t see it. What my eyes see is superimposed over the dream. At some point I recognize this. But can’t control it. So not #luciddreaming exactly, but sort of almost.
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On a very few occasions I’ve had #dreams while my eyes are open. I’m asleep—a couple times when napping on an afternoon, a few more at night, in the dark. My dream self is involved in the dream action but my eyes are seeing the room in front of my face. Or darkness. The dream scenario is happening, but I can’t see it. What my eyes see is superimposed over the dream. At some point I recognize this. But can’t control it. So not #luciddreaming exactly, but sort of almost.
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Consciousness isn’t confined to your skull. 🧠✨
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Consciousness isn’t confined to your skull. 🧠✨
Starting within an hour at 8pm CET (7pm UTC) to explore non-local consciousness—evidence that your awareness extends beyond your body.
🔴 LIVE session: https://www.icloud.com/invites/0c1FYfTjcdx6zh4HCTz10wKJA
#NonLocalConsciousness #MeditationScience #ConsciousnessStudies #HeartCoherence #QuantumField #RemoteViewing #LucidDreaming #SelfRegulation #MindfulnessResearch #MeditationPractice #ExpandedAwareness #TransformationalMeditation #LiveMeditation #ConsciousLiving
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Consciousness isn’t confined to your skull. 🧠✨
Starting within an hour at 8pm CET (7pm UTC) to explore non-local consciousness—evidence that your awareness extends beyond your body.
🔴 LIVE session: https://www.icloud.com/invites/0c1FYfTjcdx6zh4HCTz10wKJA
#NonLocalConsciousness #MeditationScience #ConsciousnessStudies #HeartCoherence #QuantumField #RemoteViewing #LucidDreaming #SelfRegulation #MindfulnessResearch #MeditationPractice #ExpandedAwareness #TransformationalMeditation #LiveMeditation #ConsciousLiving
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Consciousness isn’t confined to your skull. 🧠✨
Starting within an hour at 8pm CET (7pm UTC) to explore non-local consciousness—evidence that your awareness extends beyond your body.
🔴 LIVE session: https://www.icloud.com/invites/0c1FYfTjcdx6zh4HCTz10wKJA
#NonLocalConsciousness #MeditationScience #ConsciousnessStudies #HeartCoherence #QuantumField #RemoteViewing #LucidDreaming #SelfRegulation #MindfulnessResearch #MeditationPractice #ExpandedAwareness #TransformationalMeditation #LiveMeditation #ConsciousLiving
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Consciousness isn’t confined to your skull. 🧠✨
Join me LIVE on November 27 at 8pm CET (7pm UTC) to explore non-local consciousness—evidence that your awareness extends beyond your body.
🔴 LIVE session: https://www.icloud.com/invites/0c1FYfTjcdx6zh4HCTz10wKJA
#NonLocalConsciousness #MeditationScience #ConsciousnessStudies #HeartCoherence #QuantumField #RemoteViewing #LucidDreaming #SelfRegulation #MindfulnessResearch #MeditationPractice #ExpandedAwareness #TransformationalMeditation #LiveMeditation #ConsciousLiving
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Consciousness isn’t confined to your skull. 🧠✨
Join me LIVE on November 27 at 8pm CET (7pm UTC) to explore non-local consciousness—evidence that your awareness extends beyond your body.
🔴 LIVE session: https://www.icloud.com/invites/0c1FYfTjcdx6zh4HCTz10wKJA
#NonLocalConsciousness #MeditationScience #ConsciousnessStudies #HeartCoherence #QuantumField #RemoteViewing #LucidDreaming #SelfRegulation #MindfulnessResearch #MeditationPractice #ExpandedAwareness #TransformationalMeditation #LiveMeditation #ConsciousLiving
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Consciousness isn’t confined to your skull. 🧠✨
Join me LIVE on November 27 at 8pm CET (7pm UTC) to explore non-local consciousness—evidence that your awareness extends beyond your body.
🔴 LIVE session: https://www.icloud.com/invites/0c1FYfTjcdx6zh4HCTz10wKJA
#NonLocalConsciousness #MeditationScience #ConsciousnessStudies #HeartCoherence #QuantumField #RemoteViewing #LucidDreaming #SelfRegulation #MindfulnessResearch #MeditationPractice #ExpandedAwareness #TransformationalMeditation #LiveMeditation #ConsciousLiving
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Consciousness isn’t confined to your skull. 🧠✨
Join me LIVE on November 27 at 8pm CET (7pm UTC) to explore non-local consciousness—evidence that your awareness extends beyond your body.
🔴 LIVE session: https://www.icloud.com/invites/0c1FYfTjcdx6zh4HCTz10wKJA
#NonLocalConsciousness #MeditationScience #ConsciousnessStudies #HeartCoherence #QuantumField #RemoteViewing #LucidDreaming #SelfRegulation #MindfulnessResearch #MeditationPractice #ExpandedAwareness #TransformationalMeditation #LiveMeditation #ConsciousLiving
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Moin ihr Tröten.
Die Nacht war begleitet von merkwürdigen Träumen. Ein Alptraum war dabei. Ich habe ihn erkannt, konnte mich aber selber nicht daraus aufwecken. Es gelang nicht. Das ist selten. Ich habe es dann geschafft ihn so zu beeinflussen, dass er schöner wurde und erträglich. #luciddreaming
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Moin ihr Tröten.
Die Nacht war begleitet von merkwürdigen Träumen. Ein Alptraum war dabei. Ich habe ihn erkannt, konnte mich aber selber nicht daraus aufwecken. Es gelang nicht. Das ist selten. Ich habe es dann geschafft ihn so zu beeinflussen, dass er schöner wurde und erträglich. #luciddreaming
Jetzt erst mal Kaffee im Bett. ☕️🛏️
