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Lucid Dream Nightmare Therapy: Insights from Peak Experiences, Psychedelics, & Transcendent States
What if a natural, REM-based process could offer the same therapeutic benefits as psychedelics—without substances?
Lucid dreaming isn’t just about controlling your dreams. It’s a powerful shift in perspective that can reconnect you to inner wisdom, catalyze emotional healing, and create conditions for peak experiences. In this video, I explore how lucid dreaming therapy compares to psychedelic-assisted therapy, why it goes beyond traditional nightmare treatments, and how it
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...
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Lucid Dream Nightmare Therapy: Insights from Peak Experiences, Psychedelics, & Transcendent States
What if a natural, REM-based process could offer the same therapeutic benefits as psychedelics—without substances?
Lucid dreaming isn’t just about controlling your dreams. It’s a powerful shift in perspective that can reconnect you to inner wisdom, catalyze emotional healing, and create conditions for peak experiences. In this video, I explore how lucid dreaming therapy compares to psychedelic-assisted therapy, why it goes beyond traditional nightmare treatments, and how it
Kristen LaMarca PhD
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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
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Nov 21, 20243 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
Dec 17, 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 25, 20221 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
Nov 24, 20216 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
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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
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Aug 28, 20192 min read
Lucid Dream Nightmare Therapy, Sleep State Misperception, Imagery Rehearsal Therapy, and More!
I was honored to be a guest on the Night Club podcast, which is led by a Western teacher of Tibetan Buddhist dream yoga, Andrew Holecek ....
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Jul 13, 20191 min read
How your thoughts change in different sleep stages
By taking samples of subjects' thought content at different time points over the night, they found the presence of self-reflective thought..
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Apr 14, 20181 min read
A Conversation on Lucid Dreaming East and West
Lucid dreaming has long been part of the Tibetan practices of dream yoga. In this video, lucid dreaming scientist Stephen LaBerge enjoys...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Mar 2, 20181 min read
Reframing insomnia as an opportunity for lucid dreaming
Lucid dreaming theoretically may be able to assist the insomnia-prone in a by reframing wakefulness at night to be a more positive or useful
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Sep 7, 20157 min read
Lucid Dreaming Therapy for Nightmares
A main idea behind lucid dreaming therapy is that, once you realize you are dreaming, you can face your fears with a new, more helpful frame
Kristen LaMarca PhD
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