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Lucid dreaming: not just awareness, but agency

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dc.contributor.authorAbleidinger, Severin
dc.contributor.authorDeGennaro, Luigi
dc.contributor.authorMota-Rolim, Sergio
dc.contributor.authorScarpelli, Serena
dc.contributor.authorBolstad, Courtney J.
dc.contributor.authorBjorvatn, Bjørn
dc.contributor.authorEspie, Colin A.
dc.contributor.authorDauvilliers, Yves
dc.contributor.authorKorman, Maria
dc.contributor.authorLandtblom, Anne Marie
dc.contributor.authorPlazzi, Giuseppe
dc.contributor.authorMatsui, Kentaro
dc.contributor.authorYordanova, Juliana
dc.contributor.authorBjelajac, Adrijana Koscec
dc.contributor.authorReis, Cátia
dc.contributor.authorChung, Frances
dc.contributor.authorMerikanto, Ilona
dc.contributor.authorWing, Yun K.
dc.contributor.authorPartinen, Markku
dc.contributor.authorMacêdo, Tainá
dc.contributor.authorNadorff, Michael R.
dc.contributor.authorHolzinger, Brigitte
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-05T08:52:39Z
dc.date.available2025-09-05T08:52:39Z
dc.date.issued2025-08-12
dc.description.abstractDuring lucid dreaming (LD), dreamers are aware that they are dreaming and may be able to influence the oneiric content. There has been recent debate about the relative importance of the ability to influence the dream and having agency over the pure awareness of dreaming. To underline this, we examined the associations of lucid dreams without agency (LD?Ag) and lucid dreams with agency (LD + Ag) to sleep and mental health problems and long COVID during the pandemic. We collected data in 16 countries on four continents from May to December 2021 on 10,715 subjects. Logistic regression was performed to predict LD?Ag and LD + Ag, with a sample of 8133 participants. We found that 30% of the participants frequently knew they were dreaming during the pandemic. About half of those (17%) reported that they could influence their dreams. Female gender and anxiety symptoms were negatively associated with LD + Ag. Dream recall, nightmares, insomnia, dream enactment behaviour (DEB), sleep vocalisation, short and long COVID and PTSD were positively associated with LD + Ag. Old age, dream recall, nightmares and anxiety symptoms were positively associated with LD?Ag, while short sleep length, being an evening type, and short COVID were negatively associated with LD?Ag. The different associations for LD?Ag and LD + Ag suggest that they may be distinct sleep states. This is also the first study to show that both COVID-19 and long COVID are associated with LD.eng
dc.identifier.citationAbleidinger, S., DeGennaro, L., Mota-Rolim, S., & Scarpelli, S. et al. (in press). Lucid dreaming: not just awareness, but agency. Journal of Sleep Research, Article e70181. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.70181
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jsr.70181
dc.identifier.eid105013749819
dc.identifier.issn0962-1105
dc.identifier.other3cca4b42-2e45-47d1-8e43-1cf658c91176
dc.identifier.pmid40832812
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/54684
dc.identifier.wos001553713200001
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectAgency
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectDreams
dc.subjectLong COVID
dc.subjectLucid dreaming
dc.subjectNightmares
dc.titleLucid dreaming: not just awareness, but agencyeng
dc.typeresearch article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Sleep Research
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85

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