Validity established of DreamLight cues for eliciting lucid dreaming.

LaBerge, Stephen; Levitan, Lynne

doi:10.1037/h0094432

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“…For example, boosting SWS, using transcranial stimulation [ 24 ] or acoustic stimulation [ 25 ] has been shown to enhance declarative memory. Similarly, online detection of REM sleep can be used to time the induction of lucid dreams [ 29 ]. In the present work, we demonstrated one such application by automatically delivering precisely timed acoustic stimulation during SWS in real-time.…”

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An end-to-end framework for real-time automatic sleep stage classification

Patanaik

Ong

Gooley

et al. 2018

Sleep

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Sleep staging is a fundamental but time consuming process in any sleep laboratory. To greatly speed up sleep staging without compromising accuracy, we developed a novel framework for performing real-time automatic sleep stage classification. The client–server architecture adopted here provides an end-to-end solution for anonymizing and efficiently transporting polysomnography data from the client to the server and for receiving sleep stages in an interoperable fashion. The framework intelligently partitions the sleep staging task between the client and server in a way that multiple low-end clients can work with one server, and can be deployed both locally as well as over the cloud. The framework was tested on four datasets comprising ≈1700 polysomnography records (≈12000 hr of recordings) collected from adolescents, young, and old adults, involving healthy persons as well as those with medical conditions. We used two independent validation datasets: one comprising patients from a sleep disorders clinic and the other incorporating patients with Parkinson’s disease. Using this system, an entire night’s sleep was staged with an accuracy on par with expert human scorers but much faster (≈5 s compared with 30–60 min). To illustrate the utility of such real-time sleep staging, we used it to facilitate the automatic delivery of acoustic stimuli at targeted phase of slow-sleep oscillations to enhance slow-wave sleep.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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An end-to-end framework for real-time automatic sleep stage classification

Patanaik

Ong

Gooley

et al. 2018

Sleep

129

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“…The second possibility is to teach dreamers mental techniques to recognize that they are dreaming during a dream or to voluntarily induce lucid dreams, since there are characteristics of dreaming on which one can rely as 'dream reminders' or 'dream recognizing features'. Some additional techniques developed by LaBerge are, 'wake-initiation of lucid dreams' or WILD (LaBerge and Levitan, 1995); 'wake back to bed' or WBTB (LaBerge, Phillips and Levitan (1994); and as already mentioned 'mnemonic induction of lucid dreams ' or MILD (LaBerge, 1980a). Holzinger adds relaxation techniques, hypnosis, sleep and dream education, and techniques derived from Gestalt therapy, but allows the dreamer to choose from what is introduced to them and also allows choices for how to overcome the nightmare to the liking and ability of the dreamer.…”

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Lucid dreaming – dreams of clarity

Holzinger¹

2009

Contemporary Hypnosis

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Although the concept of 'lucid dreaming' was fi rst coined by Frederik Willems van Eeden, a Dutch psychiatrist, and introduced at the meeting of The Society for Psychical Research held on 22 April 1913, the phenomenon of lucid dreaming was already known in earlier historical periods and its descriptions can be found in writings of Aristotle. However, modern lucid dreaming research was established only after LaBerge introduced his method for physiological investigation of lucid dreaming through eye signals in 1980. Current attempts in the fi eld are directed at defi ning the neuro-physiological correlates of lucid dreaming, an aim that still has yet to be achieved. One of the possible applications of lucid dreaming is in the fi eld of psychotherapy where it is usually used in treating nightmares. However, other possible therapeutic potentials of lucid dreaming are still in the process of being discovered and therefore constitute a fertile area for future researchers.

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“…The latter situation is encountered in field experiments also, where no polysomnographic sleep recording is being carried out. Some field studies (e.g., LaBerge & Levitan, 1995;Purcell et al, 1986;Zadra et al, 1992) employed external blinded judges to score dream reports for lucidity, but even with this approach the validation of lucid dreams is complicated: It would still rely on the dreamer's recollection of the dream, which might be impaired by sleep inertia -a transitional state between sleep and wakefulness in which cognitive performance is decreased (Tassi & Muzet, 2000), especially if the dream was not recorded immediately after awakening. This also brings a further issue of introspection -subjective dream reports are very difficult to verify and while the presence of predefined eye-movement on the EOG can be considered as an objective verification, their absence leaves the question of verification open (cf.…”

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“…One field experiment (LaBerge & Levitan, 1995) had a fair methodological quality (14), while the remaining three studies were of a rather poor quality (average: 5.0). While light cues can be successfully incorporated in dreams and trigger lucidity (LaBerge & Levitan, 1995;LaBerge, Levitan, Rich, & Dement, 1988), there are some indications that light stimuli might be slightly less effective than cognitive MILD technique but the combination of two seems to be even more promising (LaBerge, 1988;.…”

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“…Light stimuli were administered in four studies: one sleep laboratory experiment (LaBerge, Levitan, Rich, & Dement, 1988) and three field studies which used specially constructed and commercially available devices (DreamLight, DreamLink, NovaDreamer) for producing light stimuli during REM sleep (LaBerge, 1988;LaBerge & Levitan, 1995;. One field experiment (LaBerge & Levitan, 1995) had a fair methodological quality (14), while the remaining three studies were of a rather poor quality (average: 5.0).…”

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Induction of lucid dreams: A systematic review of evidence

Stumbrys

Erlacher

Schädlich

et al. 2012

Consciousness and Cognition

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223

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In lucid dreams the dreamer is aware of dreaming and often able to influence the ongoing dream content. Lucid dreaming is a learnable skill and a variety of techniques is suggested for lucid dreaming induction. This systematic review evaluated the evidence for the effectiveness of induction techniques. A comprehensive literature search was carried out in biomedical databases and specific resources. Thirty-five studies were included in the analysis (11 sleep laboratory and 24 field studies), of which 26 employed cognitive techniques, 11 external stimulation and one drug application. The methodological quality of the included studies was relatively low. None of the induction techniques were verified to induce lucid dreams reliably and consistently, although some of them look promising. On the basis of the reviewed studies, a taxonomy of lucid dream induction methods is presented. Several methodological issues pertaining to both studies reviewed and lucid dream induction research in general are discussed.

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Validity established of DreamLight cues for eliciting lucid dreaming.

Cited by 54 publications

References 7 publications

An end-to-end framework for real-time automatic sleep stage classification

An end-to-end framework for real-time automatic sleep stage classification

Lucid dreaming – dreams of clarity

Induction of lucid dreams: A systematic review of evidence

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