Lucid dreaming frequency and personality

Meta-Awareness During Day and Night

“…This might be related to personality factors such as thin boundaries (Galvin, 1990;Hicks, Bautista, & Hicks, 1999;Schredl & Erlacher, 2004), transliminality (Lange, Thalbourne, Houran, & Storm, 2000) and openness to experience (Giluk, 2009;Schredl & Erlacher, 2004;Yu, 2012). It is conceivable that individuals who are more open to experience, have "thinner" boundaries between their mental states and higher sensitivity to inner psychological material are more likely to try meditation and report more lucid dreams and higher mindfulness in wakefulness.…”

“…Estimates of lucid dreaming incidence suggest that about half of the general population experience a lucid dream at least once in their lifetime and about 20% have lucid dreams regularly -once a month or more often (Schredl & Erlacher, 2011;Snyder & Gackenbach, 1988). Lucid dream frequency has been linked to various personality dimensions, such as internal locus of control, field independence, openness to experience, higher creativity and need for cognition (Blagrove & Hartnell, 2000;Blagrove & Tucker, 1994;Gruber, Steffen, & Vonderhaar, 1995;Patrick & Durndell, 2004;Schredl & Erlacher, 2004;Snyder & Gackenbach, 1988;Yu, 2012).…”

Lucid dreaming incidence: A quality effects meta-analysis of 50 years of research

“…Here it is recommended a standardised measurement protocol is utilised so direct comparisons across samples can be made. Due to providing the respondent with eight options the scale presented by Erlacher & Schredl (2004) was the most sensitive measure of frequent lucid dreaming we reviewed. By measuring the frequency of lucidity from less than once a year up to once a week or more it clearly determines the frequency of lucid dream experiences, unlike some other scales which have been used (e.g.…”

“…It has been found that children and adolescents report dreaming lucidly more often than other age groups (Blackmore, 1984;Gackenbach, 1980;Palmer, 1979: Schredl and Erlacher, 2004Voss et al, 2012, Watson, 2001. In an effort to explain this Voss et al (2012) proposed the brain maturation hypothesis, postulating that lucid dreaming is a disassociated, hybrid neurobiological state which occurs as an epiphenomenon of the brain's natural maturation processes, such that higher frequency of lucid dreams would be reported from adolescence until the early years of adulthood at which point frequency would decline for the majority of people.…”

Testing the involvement of the prefrontal cortex in lucid dreaming: A tDCS study

“…The frequency of lucid dreams was measured on a 8-point scale (0 -never, 1 -less than once a year, 2 -about once a year, 3 -about 2 to 4 times a year, 4 -about once a month, 5 -about 2 to 3 times a month, 6 -about once a week, 7 -several times a week; Schredl & Erlacher, 2004).…”