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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-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
May 17, 20241 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
Sep 13, 20231 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
Sep 23, 20201 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
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Aug 28, 20192 min read

Tone Your Vagus Nerve For Better Sleep and Dreams
Is insomnia getting in the way of your lucid dreaming and dream recall practices? Targeting your vagus nerve through paced diaphragmatic bre
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Aug 24, 20198 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


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
Dec 10, 20182 min read
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