Frequent Lucid Dreaming Is Associated with Meditation Practice Styles, Meta-Awareness, and Trait Mindfulness.
Brain Sci May 14, 2024 Elena Gerhardt, Benjamin Baird 3 citations
Lucid dreaming—becoming aware that one is dreaming—shares features with mindfulness, the moment-to-moment awareness of experience, and with meta-awareness, the ability to notice the current content of one's own mental state. An online survey of 635 people found that daily frequent meditators report more lucid dreams than non-frequent meditators, but weekly frequent meditators do not. Open monitoring styles of meditation are positively associated with lucid dreaming. Meta-awareness is higher among meditators and weekly lucid dreamers. Frequent lucid dreaming is also linked to a non-reactive stance and experiences of transcendence. The findings indicate a positive relationship between specific meditation practices and lucid dreaming, and highlight meta-awareness as a cognitive process connecting meditation, mindfulness, and lucid dreaming.