ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Lucid Dreaming Brain Network Based on Tholey's 7 Klartraum Criteria.
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- Lucid Dreaming: Not Just Awareness, but Agency.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- To be or not to be hallucinating: Implications of hypnagogic/hypnopompic experiences and lucid dreaming for brain disorders.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Structural differences between non-lucid dreams, lucid dreams and out-of-body experience reports assessed by graph analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sleep Paralysis and Lucid Dreaming-Between Waking and Dreaming: A Review about Two Extraordinary States.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The Examination of Conscience: A Preliminary Study on the Effects on Metamemory After a 2-Week Practice.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Lucid dreaming refers to a dream state characterized by the dreamers' awareness of being in a dream and being able to volitionally control its content. The aim of this study was to describe and model neurophysiological evidence for the seven awareness criteria of lucid dreaming based on those proposed by Paul Tholey. Each of the awareness criteria was analyzed separately with regard to its underlying neurocircuits. We hypothesized that not one, but several regions are involved in the state of lucid dreaming. Our results have shown a satisfactory overlap of the awareness criteria and the brain regions activated. During lucid dreaming, a brain network seems to emerge, that is something other than the sum of its parts. Further research is needed to understand the psychoneurological underpinnings of lucid dreams.
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