Inducing signal-verified lucid dreams in 40% of untrained novice lucid dreamers within two nights in a sleep laboratory setting.
Consciousness and cognition August 1, 2020 K Appel, S Füllhase, S Kern et al. 12 citations
Lucid dreams, where the dreamer is aware they are dreaming, are hard to induce in people without prior experience in a sleep laboratory. By simplifying a previous induction protocol, twenty naïve subjects spent one or two nights in a sleep lab. After about six hours of sleep, they were woken during REM sleep, performed cognitive tasks, and returned to bed. Ten subjects reported a lucid dream in the subsequent sleep period, and eight of these gave a predefined eye signal visible in the electrooculogram during REM sleep. The simplified protocol successfully replicated earlier results.