Lucid Dream Research at the Sleep and Dream Laboratory, University of Virginia, Medical Center

Abstract

A combined study of lucid dream induction techniques and efforts to give ocular (eye movement) signals from the lucid dream state is now under way at the Sleep and Dream Laboratory of the University of Virginia Medical Center. Joe Dane, a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Georgia State University, is comparing the effects of LaBerge’s MILD technique (LaBerge, 1980) with those of posthypnotic suggestion (PHS) for willfully inducing lucid dreams in 10 “fre­quent” lucid dreamers (i.e., who spontaneously experience one of more lucid dreams per month).