Sleep Laboratory, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany.
Percept Mot Skills. 2011 Feb;112(1):104-8. doi: 10.2466/09.PMS.112.1.104-108.
Lucid dreams occur when a person is aware that he is dreaming while he is dreaming. In a representative sample of German adults (N = 919), 51% of the participants reported that they had experienced a lucid dream at least once. Lucid dream recall was significantly higher in women and negatively correlated with age. However, these effects might be explained by the frequency of dream recall, as there was a correlation of .57 between frequency of dream recall and frequency of lucid dreams. Other sociodemographic variables like education, marital status, or monthly income were not related to lucid dream frequency. Given the relatively high prevalence of lucid dreaming reported in the present study, research on lucid dreams might be pursued in the sleep laboratory to expand the knowledge about sleep, dreaming, and consciousness processes in general.
清醒梦是指一个人在做梦时意识到自己正在做梦。在一项对德国成年人的代表性样本（N=919）的研究中，51%的参与者报告说他们至少有过一次清醒梦的经历。女性的清醒梦回忆率明显更高，与年龄呈负相关。然而，这些影响可能可以用梦的回忆频率来解释，因为梦的回忆频率和清醒梦的频率之间存在着.57 的相关性。其他社会人口学变量，如教育程度、婚姻状况或月收入，与清醒梦的频率无关。鉴于本研究中报告的清醒梦的相对高发率，睡眠实验室中可能会开展关于清醒梦的研究，以扩展关于睡眠、做梦和意识过程的知识。
