'Lucid dreaming apps' actually exist
' Lucid Experiment ' is an app developed for experimental purposes by a lucid dream research team that plays sounds to guide users into lucid dreams. In the experiment, it was reported that subjects were able to have lucid dreams 2.11 times a week.
Lucid Experiment - Apps on Google Play
Provoking lucid dreams at home with sensory cues paired with pre-sleep cognitive training - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810024001260
Study shows pre-sleep training coupled with sensory cues can trigger lucid dreaming : For Journalists - Northwestern University
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/10/study-shows-pre-sleep-training-coupled-with-sensory-cues-can-trigger-lucid-dreaming-2
Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are in a dream. Lucid dreamers can freely control their dreams by moving to their favorite places or making objects appear. The mechanism of lucid dreams is gradually being elucidated, and a lucid dream induction technique called 'Targeted Lucid Dream Reactivation (TLR)' has already been established. A research team at Northwestern University developed an experimental smartphone app called 'Lucid Experiment' that can easily perform the TLR method, and investigated whether the app can induce lucid dreams.
Lucid Experiment has a function to play sounds at a volume that does not wake you up, and the subject can take control of the dream and enter a lucid dream by noticing the sound made by Lucid Experiment while having a normal dream. The appearance of the app is as follows. Note that Lucid Experiment was developed for older versions of Android and cannot be installed on Android 15.
The experiment was divided into two parts: the first part was training before going to bed, and the second part was actually playing the sound while sleeping. As a result of the experiment on 19 subjects, the subjects were able to have lucid dreams an average of 2.11 times a week. One subject explained the process of having a lucid dream: 'I was in the locker room for my job as a lifeguard, and there was some kind of noise the whole time. I was frustrated trying to find the source of the sound, but then I suddenly realized that the sound was coming from the app.'
In addition, to confirm the effectiveness of the app, the research team gathered 120 subjects and conducted an experiment by dividing them into a 'group that plays lucid dream induction sounds every day' and a 'group that plays lucid dream induction sounds once a day'. As a result, the rate of lucid dreams was constant in the 'group that plays lucid dream induction sounds every day', while the rate of lucid dreams on days when the sound was not played was significantly lower in the 'group that plays lucid dream induction sounds once a day'. In other words, it was confirmed that the app has the effect of inducing lucid dreams.
The research team plans to increase the success rate of inducing lucid dreams by developing a function to play inducing sounds during REM sleep, the stage in which lucid dreams are most likely to occur.
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