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Dreaming has the potential to help people de-escalate emotional reactivity,
probably because the emotional content of dreams is paired with a decrease in
brain noradrenaline. Support for this idea came from a  study
 done by
Murray Raskind on vets with PTSD, who often suffer debilitating nightmares.
When given the drug Prazosin—a medication that lowers blood pressure and also
acts as a blocker of the brain stress chemical noradrenaline—the vets in his
study had fewer nightmares and fewer PTSD symptoms than those given a placebo.
 Newer studies  suggest this
effect can be shown in children and adolescents with nightmares, as well,
though the research on this is still in its infancy.
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Creativity  

In her book _ The Committee of Sleep  _ ,  Deirdre Barrett  describes how some experienced lucid dreamers have learned to
remember specific practical goals such as artists looking for inspiration
seeking a show of their own work once they become lucid or computer
programmers looking for a screen with their desired code. However, most of
these dreamers had many experiences of failing to recall waking objectives
before gaining this level of control.  [65]

_Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming_ by  Stephen LaBerge
 and  Howard Rheingold
 (1990) discusses creativity
within dreams and lucid dreams, including testimonials from a number of people
who claim they have used the practice of lucid dreaming to help them solve a
number of creative issues, from an aspiring parent thinking of potential baby
names to a surgeon practicing surgical techniques. The authors discuss how
creativity in dreams could stem from "conscious access to the contents of our
unconscious minds"; access to "tacit knowledge"—the things we know but can't
explain, or things we know but are unaware that we know.  [66]

_The Dreams Behind the Music_ book by Craig Webb (2016) details lucid dreams
of a number of musical artists, including how they are able not just to hear,
but also compose, mix, arrange, practice, and perform music while conscious
within their dreams.  [67]
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_of C. G. Jung_  |

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* _Experimental Researches_ (1973)
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17th century  

Philosopher and physician  Sir Thomas Browne  (1605–1682) was fascinated by dreams and described his own ability to
lucid dream in his _ Religio Medici 
_ , stating: "...yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the
action, apprehend the jests and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof."
[18]

 Samuel Pepys  , in his diary entry for
15 August 1665, records a dream, stating: "I had my Lady Castlemayne in my
arms and was admitted to use all the dalliance I desired with her, and then
dreamt that this could not be awake, but that it was only a dream."  [19]
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* Tholey, Paul (1988). "A model for lucidity training as a means of self-healing and psychological growth". In: J. Gackenbach & S. LaBerge (eds.), Conscious mind, sleeping brain. _Perspectives on lucid dreaming_ , pp. 263–87. London: Plenum Press.
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The practice of lucid dreaming, as in cultivating the dreamer's ability to be
aware that they are dreaming, is central to both the ancient Indian  Hindu
 practice of  Yoga nidra  and the Tibetan Buddhist practice of  dream Yoga  . The cultivation of such awareness was a common practice among
early  Buddhists  .  [13]

Early references to the phenomenon are also found in ancient Greek writing.
For example, the philosopher  Aristotle  wrote:
"often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares
that what then presents itself is but a dream."  [14]  Meanwhile, the
physician  Galen of Pergamon 
used lucid dreams as a form of therapy.  [15]  In addition, a letter written
by  Saint Augustine of Hippo 
in AD 415 tells the story of a dreamer, Doctor Gennadius, and refers to lucid
dreaming.  [16]  [17]
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Prevalence and frequency  

In 2016, a meta-analytic study by David Saunders and colleagues  [55]  on 34
lucid dreaming studies, taken from a period of 50 years, demonstrated that 55%
of a pooled sample of 24,282 people claimed to have experienced lucid dreams
at least once or more in their lifetime. Furthermore, for those that stated
they did experience lucid dreams, approximately 23% reported to experience
them on a regular basis, as often as once a month or more. In a 2004 study on
lucid dream frequency and personality, a moderate correlation between
nightmare frequency and frequency of lucid dreaming was demonstrated. Some
lucid dreamers also reported that nightmares are a trigger for dream lucidity.
[56]  Previous studies have reported that lucid dreaming is more common among
adolescents than adults.  [57]

A 2015 study by Julian Mutz and Amir-Homayoun Javadi showed that people who
had practiced meditation for a long time tended to have more lucid dreams. The
authors claimed that "Lucid dreaming is a hybrid state of consciousness with
features of both waking and dreaming" in a review they published in
Neuroscience of Consciousness  [6]  in 2017.

Mutz and Javadi found that during lucid dreaming, there is an increase in
activity of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the bilateral frontopolar
prefrontal cortex, the  precuneus  , the
inferior parietal lobules, and the  supramarginal gyrus
 . All are brain functions
related to higher cognitive functions including working memory, planning, and
self-consciousness. The researchers also found that during a lucid dream,
"levels of self-determination" were similar to those that people experienced
during states of wakefulness. They also found that lucid dreamers can only
control limited aspects of their dream at once.

Mutz and Javadi also have stated that by studying lucid dreaming further,
scientists could learn more about various types of consciousness, which happen
to be less easy to separate and research at other times.  [58]
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In 1968,  Celia Green  analyzed the main
characteristics of such dreams, reviewing previously published literature on
the subject and incorporating new data from participants of her own. She
concluded that lucid dreams were a category of experience quite distinct from
ordinary dreams and said they were associated with  rapid eye movement sleep
 (REM sleep).
Green was also the first to link lucid dreams to the phenomenon of  false
awakenings  .  [25]

In 1975, Dr. Keith Hearne had the idea to exploit the nature of rapid eye
movements (REM) to allow a dreamer to send a message directly from dreams to
the waking world. Working with an experienced lucid dreamer (Alan Worsley), he
eventually succeeded in recording (via the use of an  electrooculogram
 or EOG) a pre-defined set of eye
movements signaled from within Worsley's lucid dream. This occurred at around
8 am on the morning of April 12, 1975. Hearne's EOG experiment was formally
recognized through publication in the journal for The Society for Psychical
Research. Lucid dreaming was subsequently researched by asking dreamers to
perform pre-determined physical responses while experiencing a dream,
including eye movement signals.  [26]  [27]

In 1980,  Stephen LaBerge  at 
Stanford University 
developed such techniques as part of his doctoral dissertation.  [28]  In
1985, LaBerge performed a pilot study that showed that  time perception
 while counting during a lucid dream
is about the same as during waking life. Lucid dreamers counted out ten
seconds while dreaming, signaling the start and the end of the count with a
pre-arranged eye signal measured with  electrooculogram
 recording.  [29]  [30]  [31]
LaBerge's results were confirmed by German researchers D. Erlacher and M.
Schredl in 2004.  [32]

In a further study by Stephen LaBerge, four subjects were compared either
singing while dreaming or counting while dreaming. LaBerge found that the
right hemisphere was more active during singing and the left hemisphere was
more active during counting.  [33]

 Neuroscientist   J. Allan Hobson
 has hypothesized what might be occurring
in the brain while lucid. The first step to lucid dreaming is recognizing one
is dreaming. This recognition might occur in the  dorsolateral prefrontal
cortex  , which is one of the few areas deactivated during REM sleep and
where  working memory  occurs. Once
this area is activated and the recognition of dreaming occurs, the dreamer
must be cautious to let the dream continue but be conscious enough to remember
that it is a dream. While maintaining this balance, the  amygdala
 and  parahippocampal cortex
 might be less
intensely activated.  [34]  To continue the intensity of the dream
hallucinations, it is expected the  pons  and the 
parieto-occipital junction  stay active.
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"Electroencephalography") (EEG) and other polysomnographical measurements,
LaBerge and others have shown that lucid dreams begin in the rapid eye
movement (REM) stage of sleep.  [36]  [37]  [38]  LaBerge also proposes that
there are higher amounts of beta-1 frequency band (13–19 Hz) brain wave
activity experienced by lucid dreamers, hence there is an increased amount of
activity in the  parietal lobes  making
lucid dreaming a conscious process.  [39]

Paul Tholey, a German  Gestalt psychologist  and a professor of psychology and  sports science
 , originally studied dreams in order
to resolve the question of whether one dreams in colour or black and white. In
his phenomenological research, he outlined an epistemological frame using 
critical realism 
"Critical realism \(philosophy of perception\)") .  [40]  Tholey instructed
his subjects to continuously suspect waking life to be a dream, in order that
such a habit would manifest itself during dreams. He called this technique for
inducing lucid dreams the _Reflexions technik_ (reflection technique).  [41]
Subjects learned to have such lucid dreams; they observed their dream content
and reported it soon after awakening. Tholey could examine the cognitive
abilities of dream figures.  [42]  Nine trained lucid dreamers were directed
to set other dream figures arithmetic and verbal tasks during lucid dreaming.
Dream figures who agreed to perform the tasks proved more successful in verbal
than in arithmetic tasks. Tholey discussed his scientific results with Stephen
LaBerge, who has a similar approach.  [43]

A study was conducted by Stephen LaBerge and other scientists to see if it
were possible to attain the ability to lucid dream through a drug. In 2018, 
galantamine  was given to 121 patients in a
double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, the only one of its kind. Some
participants found as much as a 42 percent increase in their ability to lucid
dream, compared to self-reports from the past six months, and ten people
experienced a lucid dream for the first time. It is theorized that galantamine
allows  acetylcholine  to build up,
leading to greater recollection and awareness during dreaming.  [44]
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