top of page
Featured
Lucid Dream Nightmare Therapy: Insights from Peak Experiences, Psychedelics, & Transcendent States
What if a natural, REM-based process could offer the same therapeutic benefits as psychedelics—without substances?
Lucid dreaming isn’t just about controlling your dreams. It’s a powerful shift in perspective that can reconnect you to inner wisdom, catalyze emotional healing, and create conditions for peak experiences. In this video, I explore how lucid dreaming therapy compares to psychedelic-assisted therapy, why it goes beyond traditional nightmare treatments, and how it
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...
Latest
Search
To Sleep, Perchance to Read
The original studies testing the reliability of re-reading reality check by Lucidity Institute.
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Jul 17, 20188 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..
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Apr 14, 20181 min read
Is lucid dreaming addictive?
“Is lucid dreaming addictive or a form of escapism? If I start lucid dreaming, will I get obsessed or prefer the dream world over waking...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Apr 17, 20162 min read
Reframing insomnia as an opportunity for lucid dreaming
Lucid dreaming theoretically may be able to assist the insomnia-prone in a by reframing wakefulness at night to be a more positive or useful
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Sep 7, 20157 min read
Lucid Dreaming Therapy for Nightmares
A main idea behind lucid dreaming therapy is that, once you realize you are dreaming, you can face your fears with a new, more helpful frame
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Jun 15, 20152 min read
bottom of page