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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

Nov 213 min read

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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 in Wake-to-REM Transitions: WILDs, OBEs, & Astral Projection

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Oct 132 min read

Induction

Lucid in Wake-to-REM Transitions: WILDs, OBEs, & Astral Projection

One of the most unique aspects of WILDs is the potential to experience what’s called metachoric phenomena during REM sleep. This occurs when

Lucid Dreaming-Meditation Links: Research Update

Kristen LaMarca PhD

May 171 min read

Research

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

Nov 2, 20231 min read

Paul's Mindful Lucid Dreaming Journey

Meet Paul, an advanced meditator, who embarked on the Mindful Lucid Dreaming course in 2021 with remarkable success. He described it as,...

Balancing Opposing Realities in Lucid Dreaming: Navigating the dialectical nature of consciousness

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Sep 13, 20231 min read

Psychology

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...

MILD: An 24-hour lucid dreaming practice

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Jan 4, 20231 min read

Induction

MILD: An 24-hour lucid dreaming practice

Lucid dream techniques tend not to be described cohesively whether online or in books or science journals. Rather, they tend to come...

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Dec 17, 20221 min read

Induction

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 25, 20221 min read

Psychology

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 24, 20216 min read

Research

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

Mar 31, 20215 min read

Induction

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, ...

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Sep 23, 20201 min read

Psychology

Cure Nightmares with Lucid Dreaming

Transforming your Nightmares Unresolved psychological conflicts tend to be symbolically represented in dreams. When dream content...

Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming (MILD)

Kristen LaMarca PhD

Nov 14, 20196 min read

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Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming (MILD)

The Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams technique, or MILD, is a prospective memory technique designed to help you set and carry out the inte

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

Induction

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

Induction

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

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