title: Applications of lucid dreams: An online study
creator: Schädlich, Melanie
creator: Erlacher, Daniel
subject: ddc-300
subject: 300 Social sciences
description: In a lucid dream the dreamer is aware of the dream state and can influence the dream content and events. The goal of this study was to investigate some applications of lucid dreaming. Our survey included 301 lucid dreamers who filled out an online questionnaire. The most frequent  application (81.4%) was having fun, followed by changing a bad dream or nightmare into a pleasant one (63.8%), solving problems (29.9%), getting creative ideas or insights (27.6%) and practicing skills (21.3%). Women used lucid dreams significantly more often than men for both work on nightmares and problem solving. Our results show that lucid dreams have a great potential for improving one’s life in different ways. More research is needed to illuminate the possibilities of lucid dreaming, especially in the fields of nightmare treatment and practicing motor skills.
date: 2012
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
identifier: ojs:
identifier: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/9505
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-141321
identifier:   Schädlich, Melanie ; Erlacher, Daniel  (2012) Applications of lucid dreams: An online study.   International Journal of Dream Research, 5 (2).  pp. 134-138.      
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14132/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng