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Lucid Dreams on KPBS Midday Edition
I recently discussed lucid dreaming LIVE on KPBS Midday Edition, focusing on how lucid dreaming can stop recurring nightmares–someitmes with
Lucid Dreaming Therapy: Pathways to Safety, Connection, and Creativity
Lucid dreaming is a tool for recalibrating automatic responses to nightmares, trauma, and challenging emotions.
Does Lucid Dreaming Cause Derealization or Depersonalization?
Q. I sometimes spontaneously lucid dream. They are usually short-lived, but fun so I want to have more of them. The problem is I've...
Break on Through to Wake-Initiated Lucid Dreams
Q. I've been trying so hard to WILD but I get stuck in sleep paralysis and I don’t fall asleep all the way. My body feels like a weight, ...
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Kristen LaMarca PhD
Nov 21, 20243 min read
Lucid Dreams on KPBS Midday Edition
I recently discussed lucid dreaming LIVE on KPBS Midday Edition, focusing on how lucid dreaming can stop recurring nightmares–someitmes with
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Oct 13, 20242 min read
Lucid in Wake-to-REM Transitions: WILDs, OBEs, & Astral Projection
One of the most unique aspects of WILDs is the potential to experience what’s called metachoric phenomena during REM sleep. This occurs when
Kristen LaMarca PhD
May 17, 20241 min read
Lucid Dreaming-Meditation Links: Research Update
New research on 🧘♂️meditation-lucid dreaming 🛌 links found that: 1) Open monitoring styles of meditation are most associated with more...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Nov 2, 20231 min read
Paul's Mindful Lucid Dreaming Journey
Meet Paul, an advanced meditator, who embarked on the Mindful Lucid Dreaming course in 2021 with remarkable success. He described it as,...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Sep 13, 20231 min read
Balancing Opposing Realities in Lucid Dreaming: Navigating the dialectical nature of consciousness
🛌💭Lucid Dreaming opens a gateway to a realm where paradoxes thrive. 🌌 In this workshop clip, I dove into the profound dialectical...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Jan 4, 20231 min read
MILD: A 24-hour lucid dreaming practice
Lucid dream techniques tend not to be described cohesively whether online or in books or science journals. Rather, they tend to come...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Dec 17, 20221 min read
Lucid Dreaming Therapy: Pathways to Safety, Connection, and Creativity
Lucid dreaming is a tool for recalibrating automatic responses to nightmares, trauma, and challenging emotions.
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Nov 25, 20221 min read
Seeking Answers in Lucid Dreams
Who are you? Why are you in my dream? What's my life's purpose? What should I do about...? You've been taught to ask questions in your...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Nov 24, 20216 min read
Does Lucid Dreaming Cause Derealization or Depersonalization?
Q. I sometimes spontaneously lucid dream. They are usually short-lived, but fun so I want to have more of them. The problem is I've...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Apr 1, 20215 min read
Break on Through to Wake-Initiated Lucid Dreams
Q. I've been trying so hard to WILD but I get stuck in sleep paralysis and I don’t fall asleep all the way. My body feels like a weight, ...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Sep 23, 20201 min read
Cure Nightmares with Lucid Dreaming
Transforming your Nightmares Unresolved psychological conflicts tend to be symbolically represented in dreams. When dream content...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Nov 14, 20196 min read
Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming (MILD)
The Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams technique, or MILD, is a prospective memory technique designed to help you set and carry out the inte
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Oct 27, 20194 min read
Improving Dreamsign Awareness
Dreams are full of features that distinguish them from waking reality. These features, known as dreamsigns, can serve as signals that you ar
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Sep 9, 20192 min read
New Improvements to Lucid Dreaming Textbooks
The authors now provide a perspective on these studies that is much more reality-based, showing hopeful growth in light of these topics.
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Aug 28, 20192 min read
Interview on Lucid Dreaming Therapy, Induction Science, and more
Lucid dreams can open up new and extraordinary pathways for healing, creativity, and self-development. Learn more in this free 30 minute ta
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