Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Oct;125:103759. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103759. Epub 2024 Sep 14.
The ability to realize that you're dreaming - lucid dreaming - has value for personal goals and for consciousness research. One route to lucid dreaming is to first undergo pre-sleep training with sensory cues and then receive those cues during REM sleep. This method, Targeted Lucidity Reactivation (TLR), does not demand extensive personal effort but generally requires concurrent polysomnography to guide cue delivery. Here we translated TLR from a laboratory procedure to a smartphone-based procedure without polysomnography. In a first experiment, participants reported increased lucid dreaming with TLR compared to during the prior week. In a second experiment, we showed increased lucidity with TLR compared to blinded control procedures on alternate nights. Cues during sleep were effective when they were the same sounds from pre-sleep training. Increased lucid dreaming can be ascribed to a strong link formed during training between the sounds and a mindset of carefully analyzing one's current experience.
意识到自己在做梦的能力——清醒梦——对个人目标和意识研究都具有价值。实现清醒梦的一种方法是，首先在睡前接受带有感官提示的训练，然后在 REM 睡眠期间接受这些提示。这种方法，即有针对性的清醒再激活（TLR），不需要大量的个人努力，但通常需要同时进行多导睡眠图监测来指导提示的传递。在这里，我们将 TLR 从实验室程序翻译为无需多导睡眠图监测的智能手机程序。在第一个实验中，与前一周相比，参与者报告说 TLR 后的清醒梦增加了。在第二个实验中，与交替夜间的盲目对照程序相比，我们显示 TLR 后的清醒度增加了。当睡眠中的提示与睡前训练中的相同声音相同时，它们是有效的。清醒梦的增加可以归因于训练过程中声音和仔细分析当前体验的心态之间形成的强大联系。
