Bizarreness of Lucid and Non-lucid Dream: Effects of Metacognition.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2019 Chunyun Yu, Heyong Shen 17 citations
Lucid dreaming (LD) is a state where the dreamer knows they are dreaming while still asleep, involving metacognitive abilities like self-reflection. This study first investigated the prevalence of LD in China, finding that 81.3% of subjects had experienced LD at least once, similar to Western countries. Comparing bizarreness density (BD) between LD and non-LD dreams, BD was significantly lower in LD. Self-reflection and insight traits were inversely associated with dream bizarreness, suggesting that self-consciousness traits extend from waking to both LD and non-LD states.