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Welcome to Lucid Dreams

A web site focused on the initiating Lucid Dreams. The definition of a Lucid Dream is becoming consciously aware that your mind is in the dream state. It's rarity is a testament to the nature of our fleeting subconscious, and often times the Lucid Dream state is indicative of the subject waking up.

I began my personal community research on dreams with the Dreamsnare project and will leverage much of that knowledge to enhance the enjoyment and utility of this lens.

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The connection between programmed senses and lucid dreams

This excerpt is taken from Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, expert on dream interpretation, lucid dreams and analysis.

Our next cuing experiment was conducted as an honors thesis by Robert Rich, an undergraduate psychology student. Because an earlier study had shown that tactile stimuli were incorporated into dreams more frequently than visual or auditory stimuli, we decided to test * related stimulus as a cue to induce lucid dreams. We use vibration applied through the mattress when the subject was in REM sleep.
In this study the subjects extensively practiced mental preparation exercises. During the day preceding the lab recording, they wore vibrators on their ankles that were set with a timer to turn on several times during the day. Whenever the subjects felt the vibration, they practiced an exercise combining state testing with a reminder to themselves that when they felt the vibration in their dreams they would recognize they were dreaming. Eleven of the eighteen subjects had lucid dreams during the one or two nights they spent in the laboratory. They had a total of seventeen lucid dreams, eleven of which occurred in association with the vibration. One of the ways subjects perceived the vibration was as chaos in the dream world:
I started floating in the bed and the electrodes were puling and then the walls started to move back and forth. Then Stephen appeared in the corner. He said, "If weird things start happening, you know you're dreaming...."
This subject realized that weird things were happening became lucid, and flew off to see the stars. We were our way to finding an effective way to stimulate lucidity. Vibration, though a relatively effective cue, posed a number of technical difficulties, so we continued to instigate other types of stimuli, we next tested light, since light rarely alerts humans to danger in their environment while they are asleep. Thus, it might be readily incorporated into dreams without leading to awakening. In one study we monitored the physiology of forty-four subjects as they slept wearing modified swim goggles fitted with arrays of red lights. A few minutes after REM onset, when the subjects were likely to be involved in a dream, we briefly switched on the lights in the goggles. In later experiments we used a computer connected to the goggles to detect REM sleep and switch on the light cue.