Dream reliving and meditation as a way to enhance reflectiveness and constructive engagement in dreams

Sparrow, Gregory Scott; Thurston, Mark; Carlson, Ralph

doi:10.11588/ijodr.2013.2.10151

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“…In general, those who meditate report more lucid dreams than those who do not meditate, and meditation practice length is correlated with lucid dream frequency (Gackenbach et al, 1986;Hunt & Ogilvie, 1988). Lucid dreaming is also more likely to occur on nights where one meditated the day before (Reed, 1978), and lucid dreaming frequency increases when one meditates in the middle of the night (Sparrow et al, 2013). Type of meditation practiced in these studies was not always reported; however, these relationships are significant nonetheless in that attentional training of the mind appears to be connected to lucid dreaming.…”

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Mindfulness, Meditation, and Lucid Dreaming: A Narrow vs. Broad-Spectrum Mindfulness Study

Geise

Smith

2022

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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Both lucid dreaming and mindfulness appear to involve metacognition and awareness, or “awareness of awareness” in which one is aware and consciously attends to present experiences. Despite evidence for the continuity hypothesis of dreaming (which posits dream content is connected and related to the concerns and thoughts in waking life), little research has explored a relationship between lucid dreaming and waking mindfulness. The present study explores the relationship among mindfulness experience, meditation practice history, and lucid dreaming. Undergraduate students and meditators completed questionnaires assessing trait mindfulness, lucid dreaming frequency, and meditation practices. Surprisingly, lucid dreaming was not associated with meditation practice frequency or narrow-spectrum mindfulness experiences like present-centered awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance. Lucid dreaming frequency was predicted only by dream recall and mindfulness-related experiences of Transcendence. Possible personality implications are discussed.

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Mindfulness, Meditation, and Lucid Dreaming: A Narrow vs. Broad-Spectrum Mindfulness Study

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Smith

2022

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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“…The notion of 'pre-lucidity' is often used in the dream literature to describe dreams in which the dreamer shows some signs of knowing that their experience is a dream yet fails to classify it as a dream-we might then say that the dreamer fails to become lucid. These signs include wondering or asking oneself if one's dreaming (Green 1968), observing the bizarreness or incongruities of one's experience (Mallett et al 2021;Sparrow et al 2013Sparrow et al , 2018 or recognising some but not all dream 6 Windt has related the sort of awareness occurring during A-lucid or weakly lucid dreams to the notion of "non propositional" or "procedural" metacognition (Proüst, 2007(Proüst, , 2014. According to a growing number of theorists, metacognition doesn't always require re-representation of our mental states, and thus, it shouldn't be exclusively understood in terms of second-order state (or reflective awareness).…”

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Is Lucid Dreamless Sleep Really Lucid?

Alcaraz-Sánchez

2022

Rev.Phil.Psych.

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Recently, the construct ‘lucid dreamless sleep’ has been proposed to explain the state of ‘clear light’ described by Tibetan Buddhist traditions, a special state of consciousness during deep sleep in which we’re told to be able to recognise the nature or essence of our mind (Padmasambhava & Gyatrul 2008; Ponlop 2006; Wangyal 1998). To explain the sort of awareness experienced during this state, some authors have appealed to the sort of lucidity acquired during lucid dreaming and suggested a link between both phenomena (Thompson 2014, 2015; Windt 2015a; Windt et al. 2016). Whilst these authors appeal to a non-conceptually mediated form of lucidity, which doesn’t consist of reflective awareness and propositional thought, the question as to whether the state of clear light should be considered a lucid state similar to lucid dreaming still arises. I argue that the concept ‘lucidity’ used to describe this sort of state is imprecise and that two theoretical notions of lucidity should be distinguished. The first one, which I call the technical notion, requires the recognition of the hallucinatory character of my current experience. The second, the broader notion, involves the seeming recognition of being directly acquainted with the phenomenal character of my experience. I spell out these two notions of lucidity and argue that only the latter could apply to the state of clear light sleep.

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“…Indeed, apart from the conjectural relation described above, lucid dreaming seems to have an empirical association with aspects of trait mindfulness 11 , 72 . Meditation practice has been suggested to promote lucidity in dreams 72 – 75 . In fact, studies report mindfulness in wakefulness to be positively related to lucidity in dreams, but only in participants who are practicing meditation 11 , 72 .…”

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The role of mindful acceptance and lucid dreaming in nightmare frequency and distress

Tzioridou

Dresler

Sandberg

et al. 2022

Sci Rep

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A theoretical and empirical association between lucid dreaming and mindfulness, as well as lucid dreaming and nightmares has previously been observed; however, the relationship between nightmares and mindfulness has received surprisingly little attention. Here, we present the findings of two studies exploring the relation of nightmare frequency and distress with two components of mindfulness, termed presence and acceptance, as well as lucid dreaming. Study 1 (N = 338) consisted of a low percentage of frequent lucid dreamers whereas Study 2 (N = 187) consisted primarily of frequent lucid dreamers that used lucid dream induction training techniques and meditation. Across studies, nightmare-related variables showed a more robust association with mindful acceptance as opposed to mindful presence. Moreover, individuals with high levels of meditation expertise and practice of lucid dreaming induction techniques reported lower nightmare frequency. Finally, in Study 2, which consisted of frequent lucid dreamers, a positive correlation between lucid dreaming frequency and mindfulness was apparent. The present findings support the notion that wakeful mindfulness is associated with the quality of dreams and extend previous research by suggesting a disentangled role of the two facets of mindfulness in dream variation. This association remains open for experimental manipulation, the result of which could have clinical implications.

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Dream reliving and meditation as a way to enhance reflectiveness and constructive engagement in dreams

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Lucid Dreaming: A Narrow vs. Broad-Spectrum Mindfulness Study

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Lucid Dreaming: A Narrow vs. Broad-Spectrum Mindfulness Study

Is Lucid Dreamless Sleep Really Lucid?

The role of mindful acceptance and lucid dreaming in nightmare frequency and distress

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