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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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Lucid Dreaming-Meditation Links: Research Update

Kristen LaMarca PhD

May 171 min read

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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

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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

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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

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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

New Improvements to Lucid Dreaming Textbooks

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Sep 9, 20192 min read

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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.

Interview on Lucid Dreaming Therapy, Induction Science, and more

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Aug 28, 20192 min read

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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

How often to take galantamine for lucid dreaming

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Aug 23, 20193 min read

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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

Lucid Dream Nightmare Therapy, Sleep State Misperception, Imagery Rehearsal Therapy, and More!

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Jul 13, 20191 min read

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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 ....

The Mindfulness Meditation and Lucid Dreaming Connection

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Dec 10, 20182 min read

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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...

The best way to reality test for lucid dreaming

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Jul 23, 20183 min read

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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

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To Sleep, Perchance to Read

The original studies testing the reliability of re-reading reality check by Lucidity Institute.

How your thoughts change in different sleep stages

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Apr 14, 20181 min read

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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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