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Study: VR-plus-meditation training can teach people lucid dreaming in a month

University of Trento researchers report training-naive participants developed lucid dreaming after twice-weekly VR sessions for one month.

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What to know

  • Participants with no lucid dream recollection in three years learned the skill after one month of twice-weekly VR training combined with meditation.
  • The University of Trento team designed the method to address weaknesses in older techniques, such as waking 'reality checks', which don't reliably induce lucid dreaming.
  • An outside expert says the approach could help people with nightmares gain more control over and transform distressing dreams.
  • The study was published Sept. 28 in Frontiers in Psychology; coverage of it is only now spreading via aggregators and social shares.

“for most people, our day-to-day lives may not feel 'dream-like,'”

Daniel Morris, Cognitive neuroscientist, Northwestern University · Live Science ↗ · Oct 29

Daniel Morris Cognitive neuroscientist, Northwestern University

Study: VR-plus-meditation training can teach people lucid dreaming in a month
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    Story surfaces on Hacker News

    A Hacker News user posts the Live Science article, though it draws minimal engagement.

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    Live Science reports on the VR lucid-dreaming method

    Live Science's Kamal Nahas covers the study, quoting an outside neuroscientist on its potential benefits for people with nightmares, and the article is picked up by Google News and shared on Mastodon.

    “Lucid dreaming can benefit people with nightmares by allowing them to transform their nightmares into positive dreams and feel greater agency in their dreams.”
    — Daniel Morris
  3. background

    University of Trento team publishes lucid-dreaming training study — Researchers describe a regimen combining meditation with VR simulations of bizarre, physics-violating scenarios, designed to complement traditional waking 'reality check' exercises, published in Frontiers in Psychology.