OBE & Lucid Dreaming Text Resources Thread

Please post links to text files (journal papers, Web articles, etc.) here.

Not about lucid dreaming, but dreams in general. Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a short article by Alice Gregory, a colleague of Chris French, about sleep paralysis and "exploding head syndrome" (not as alarming as it sounds). The tone is in line with French's quoted opinion that sleep paralysis can explain "a huge number of [spontaneous] paranormal accounts":
https://theconversation.com/what-lies-be...hers-93534

Obviously this is a plug for Gregory's new book about the science of sleep, published a week ago, entitled "Nodding Off":
https://bloomsbury.com/uk/nodding-off-9781472946188/

Courtesy of the Daily Grail, Science Alert reports a study finding that the anti-Alzheimer's drug galantamine increases the frequency of lucid dreams by as much as a factor of three (from 14% to 42%), when used by those with high dream recall and an interest in lucid dreaming, in conjunction with the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams technique:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-...mer-s-drug

Here is the full paper at PLOS ONE:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article...ne.0201246

Courtesy of the Daily Grail, Science Alert reports a study finding that the anti-Alzheimer's drug galantamine increases the frequency of lucid dreams by as much as a factor of three (from 14% to 42%), when used by those with high dream recall and an interest in lucid dreaming, in conjunction with the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams technique:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-...mer-s-drug

Here is the full paper at PLOS ONE:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article...ne.0201246

I use Galantamine, its highly effective. Have had hours long lucid and out of body experiences with it. I wake up quite tired afterwards though.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's a new paper in Frontiers in Psychology:

Lucid Dreaming, Nightmares, and Sleep Paralysis: Associations With Reality Testing Deficits and Paranormal Experience/Belief
Kenneth G. Drinkwater, Andrew Denovan and Neil Dagnall
Abstract: Focusing on lucid dreaming, this paper examined relationships between dissociated experiences related to rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (lucid dreaming, nightmares, and sleep paralysis), reality testing, and paranormal experiences/beliefs. The study comprised a UK-based online sample of 455 respondents (110 males, 345 females, Mean age = 34.46 years, SD = 15.70), who had all previously experienced lucid dreaming. Respondents completed established self-report measures assessing control within lucid dreaming, experience and frequency of nightmares, incidence of sleep paralysis, proneness to reality testing deficits (Inventory of Personality Organization subscale, IPO-RT), subjective experience of receptive psi and life after death (paranormal experience), and paranormal belief. Analysis comprised tests of correlational and predictive relationships between sleep-related outcomes, IPO-RT scores, and paranormal measures. Significant positive correlations between sleep and paranormal measures were weak. Paranormal measures related differentially to sleep indices. Paranormal experience correlated with lucid dreaming, nightmares, and sleep paralysis, whereas paranormal belief related only to nightmares and sleep paralysis. IPO-RT correlated positively with all paranormal and sleep-related measures. Within the IPO-RT, the Auditory and Visual Hallucinations sub-factor demonstrated the strongest positive associations with sleep measures. Structural equation modeling indicated that Auditory and Visual Hallucinations significantly positively predicted dissociated experiences related to REM sleep, while paranormal experience did not. However, paranormal experience was a significant predictor when analysis controlled for Auditory and Visual Hallucinations. The moderate positive association between these variables explained this effect. Findings indicated that self-generated, productive cognitive-processes (as encompassed by Auditory and Visual Hallucinations) played a significant role in conscious control and awareness of lucid dreaming, and related dissociative sleep states (sleep paralysis and nightmares).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....00471/full

There is also an "Opinion Article" in the same journal by the same authors, entitled "Dark Triad Traits and Sleep-Related Constructs: An Opinion Piece" - though I didn't find it easy to understand from it what their opinion was:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....00505/full

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Here's a nice article today on lucid dreaming from Australia's public broadcaster, the ABC, by Len Gordon:

What are lucid dreams, and how does your brain become aware that it's dreaming?

Because experiences in the dream can feel real to the brain and body, lucid dreaming is used by some people as a source of creativity and growth.

People have used lucid dreaming for artistic inspiration, and athletes have harnessed them to practise their skills during the night.

Laura is a dancer, and she uses her lucid dreams to come up with choreography or learn a new step.

"I practised it and see myself doing it in the lucid dream, and it makes it easier to tackle in real life," she says.

She also has musician friends who have used lucid dreaming to write songs and music.

Additionally, some research suggests there are mental health benefits, with the dream world providing a safe space to self-reflect, try new things, face fears and solve problems.

People can even use the ability to control the dream to stop a nightmare in its tracks.

For anyone wanting to start lucid dreaming, Dr Aspy primarily recommends improving your ability to remember your dreams.

"We found that general dream recall abilities are usually the strongest predictor of how successful you will be in learning lucid dreaming," he says.

"If you're able to remember your dreams most nights of the week or even every night of the week, you're probably going to have more success than someone who can only remember one or two dreams per week."