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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
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
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 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
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
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Aug 23, 20193 min read
How often to take galantamine for lucid dreaming
Since proper galantamine usage gives you good odds of lucid dreaming, you may be curious how often you can take it. Can you take galantamin
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Jul 13, 20191 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
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..
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