A curated list of everything awesome related to lucid dreaming.
In the psychology subfield of oneirology, a lucid dream is a type of dream wherein a person that is dreaming realizes that they are dreaming during their dream. The capacity to have lucid dreams is a trainable cognitive skill.
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Open-Source Projects
- Dreamento - DReam ENgenieering TOolbox is Python-based program for dream engineering while monitoring/analyzing real-time EEG data.
- INSPEC - A night-vision smart camera that detects eye movements during REM sleep and triggers audio and visual alerts to promote lucidity.
- Fitbit Lucid Trainer - A Fitbit SDK 5.0 App to capture sleep related data and send to an external REST service.
- Dream Journal App - A Dream Journal that uses Google Drive.
- lucidsourcekit - An all-you-need toolkit for lucid dreaming including a binaural beats player and much more.
- Lightened Dream - A dream journal designed for lucid dreamers.
- Dormio - Dormio influences the semi-lucid state of mind known as hypnagogia, which occurs just before falling asleep, by playing audio cues.
Lucid Dreaming Devices
- INSPEC - A night-vision smart camera that detects eye movements during REM sleep and triggers audio cues and visual alerts to promote lucidity.
Forums
- r/LucidDreaming - Learn and share how to induction methods & techniques, post questions, challenges, articles, resources, and scientific news.
- DreamViews - All about lucid dreaming, controlling dreams, lucid aids, sleep stages and dream signs.
- Attrape-Songes - French forum with interesting experiments worth translating.
- Klartraumforum - German forum with interesting experiments worth translating.
Discord Servers
- OmniLucid - A knowledgeable space with active events that consistently provide new videos, guides, and stories pertaining to lucid dreaming.
- Dream Café - A place to share your dream stories, get help and hang out with experienced lucid dreamers from around the world.
- Tech for Dreaming - A community focused on the application of technology to make lucid dreaming more accessible.
- Klarträumen - The German server for lucid dreaming, with a scientific background, dream reports and discussions, livestreams, and gaming.
YouTube Channels
- Lucid Dream Portal - Easy to follow tutorials and expert advice from one of the world's leading lucid dreaming teachers.
- TIGER123 - Dives into techniques for inducing lucid dreams, exploring dream symbolism, and enhancing dream control, with a mix of tutorials, personal experiences, and insights from the latest dream research.
- Tipharot - All about lucid dreaming and similar subjects.
- Skyfall Blind Dreamer - Interacts with creators in the field of lucid dreaming and provides quality information to get people on the right path to a solid and sustainable lucidity practice.
Podcasts
Meetups
- Tech for Dreaming - A community focused on the application of technology to make lucid dreaming more accessible.
Magazines
- Lucid Dreaming Experience - A free, reader supported, quarterly magazine which is totally devoted to lucid dreaming and the lucid dreamer's experience.
Games
- DARQ - An adventure game that tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who becomes aware of the fact that he is dreaming.
Apps
Android
- Lucid Scribe - Lucid dream induction tools: targeted lucidity reactivation (TLR), targeted dream incubation (TDI), prospective memory trainer for MILD, mnemonic inductions, reality checks, auto-off alarm, guided mindfulness exercises, electronic FILD with NREM1 (sleep onset) detection, REM detection with the INSPEC device.
- Awoken - Dream journal, reality checking, dream cues, dream patterns and achievements.
- Sleep as Android - Smart alarm clock with sleep cycle tracking.
- Lucidity - App with innovative features to help you lucid dream, keep a dream journal, and analyze your dreams.
iOS
- Lucid-Dash - Dream journal, AI image generation, lucid dreaming courses, reality checks.
- DreamWell - Dream journal, notifications, and lucid dreaming and mindfulness courses.
- Mind Awake - The guided course in this app offers a dynamic, mindful approach to lucid dreaming.
- Shape - Learn to lucid dream in 30 days with the ultimate lucid dreaming coach.
- Lucidity - Learn to Lucid Dream + Journal.
Books
Movies
- The Matrix - When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
- Waking Life - A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.
- Your Name - Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way.
- Paprika - Reality and the dream world are on a collision course after a device that can record dreams and allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen from a psychiatric research facility.
- Inception - A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
Mindfulness Exercises
Audio Programs
- Lucid Dreaming Series - This four-exercise series is designed to teach you how to program and consciously participate in your own personal dreamscape.
- Discover Your Worlds Of Dreams - Meditative sessions specifically designed to help you to have lucid dreams which are helpful and relevant to your life situations.
Reality Checks
Reality checks are tests that are performed to check if you are dreaming.
- Finger Through Hand - Push your index finger through the palm of the other hand.
- How Did I Get Here - Recall the steps that got you to your current location.
- Nose Pinch - Squeeze your nose closed with your index finger and thumb and try to take a breath.
- Finger Counting - Look closely at your hands for any unusual patterns and count your fingers.
- Levitation - Imagine what it would feel like to fly around in your surroundings and visualize yourself doing so; after enough daydreaming you will at least have a dream in which you can fly.
