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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...
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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
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Aug 28, 20192 min read
Tone Your Vagus Nerve For Better Sleep and Dreams
Is insomnia getting in the way of your lucid dreaming and dream recall practices? Targeting your vagus nerve through paced diaphragmatic bre
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Aug 24, 20198 min read
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
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Aug 23, 20193 min read
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 ....
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Jul 13, 20191 min read
Galantamine: The Memory-Enhancing Pill That Helps You Lucid Dream
Our research at Lucidity Institute shows that galantamine increases lucid dreaming when combined with an integrated induction protocol...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Jun 30, 20193 min read
What to do when you miss a dreamsign
Rehearsing lucidity using your personal imagery is necessary for building a strong intention to lucid dream, and your ability to execute on
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Dec 16, 20182 min read
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...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Dec 10, 20182 min read
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 23, 20183 min read
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
A Conversation on Lucid Dreaming East and West
Lucid dreaming has long been part of the Tibetan practices of dream yoga. In this video, lucid dreaming scientist Stephen LaBerge enjoys...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Mar 2, 20181 min read
To lucid dream test your state by re-reading
Developing the ability to recognize signs that you are dreaming—"dreamsigns"—is critical to having lucid dreams. This skill takes time...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Feb 5, 20185 min read
Problem Solving in Lucid Dreams
From solving problems like biting your nails to solving the hard problem of consciousness, some believe that lucid dreaming can light the...
Kristen LaMarca PhD
Feb 27, 20171 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
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