Below are descriptions of some lucid dream related experiments conducted by laBerge and his team at the Lucidity Institute.
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When do Lucid Dreams occur?
Lucid dreams have been frequently reported to occur most commonly late in the sleep cycle. LaBerge tested this hypothesis by first determining for each of their 12 subjects the time of night which divided their total REM time into two equal parts. All but one of the subjects had more lucid dreams in the second half of their REM time than in the first half.
How long do dreams take?
Subjects were asked to estimate ten second intervals (by counting, one thousand and one, one thousand and two, etc.) during their lucid dreams. Signals marking the beginning and end of the subjective intervals allowed comparison with objective time. In all cases, time estimates during the lucid dreams were very close to the actual time between signals!
Fingertracking
Two subjects tracked the tip of their fingers moving slowly left to right during four conditions:
- awake, eyes open
- awake, eyes closed (mental imagery)
- lucid dreaming
- imagination (dream eyes closed) during lucid dreaming.
The subjects showed saccadic eye movements in the two imagination conditions and smooth tracking eye movements during dreamed or actual tracking.
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Breathtaking experiments
Three lucid dreamers were asked to either breathe rapidly or to hold their breath in their lucid dreams. The subjects reported successfully carrying out the agreed-upon tasks a total of nine times, and in every case, a judge was able to correctly predict on the basis of the polygraph recordings which of the two patterns had been executed.