Is There a Link Between Frequency of Dreams, Lucid Dreams, and Subjective Sleep Quality?
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2020 Nicolas Ribeiro, Yannick Gounden, Véronique Quaglino 17 citations
Lucid dreaming, where one is conscious of dreaming and may control or observe the dream, was studied for its frequency and relation to sleep quality. In a French student group (n=274) and a general population sample (n=681), dream experience frequencies and sleep quality (measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) were compared. Predictive models of sleep quality, controlling for age and gender, were not significant for students and only marginally predictive for the general population. However, the models' significance was driven solely by gender, not by dream experience frequencies, indicating that lucid dreaming frequency does not help predict sleep quality. The findings are discussed in light of prior research, and methodological improvements for future studies are suggested.