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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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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
Jan 4, 20231 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
Nov 14, 20196 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
Oct 27, 20194 min read

To lucid dream test your state by re-reading
Developing the ability to recognize signs that you are dreaming—"dreamsigns"—is critical to having lucid dreams. This skill takes time...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Feb 5, 20185 min read

How to Lucid Dream
Having lucid dreams takes learning a few basic techniques and cultivating a specific mindset. Some persons will require more time or...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Dec 16, 20136 min read

Finding the Time to Dream Journal
Though journaling your subconscious escapades can be gratifying in countless ways, such a habit takes time, energy, and motivation to cultiv
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Mar 1, 20124 min read
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