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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
Dec 16, 20182 min read
What to do when you miss a dreamsign
Rehearsing lucidity using your personal imagery is necessary for building a strong intention to lucid dream, and your ability to execute on
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Dec 10, 20182 min read
The Mindfulness Meditation and Lucid Dreaming Connection
RESEARCH UPDATE: Meditation and lucid dreaming have long been empirically and historically linked, leading to theories that meditation...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Jul 23, 20183 min read
The best way to reality test for lucid dreaming
Reality testing to induce lucid dreaming is often taught incorrectly. Dr. LaBerge teaches the way to do it RIGHT and WHY re-reading text is
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Jul 17, 20188 min read
To Sleep, Perchance to Read
The original studies testing the reliability of re-reading reality check by Lucidity Institute.
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Apr 14, 20181 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
Mar 2, 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
Feb 5, 20185 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
Dec 16, 20136 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
Mar 1, 20124 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
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