Portable devices to induce lucid dreams — are they reliable?

Mota-Rolim, Sérgio A.; Pavlou, Achilleas; Nascimento, George Carlos do; Fontenele-Araujo, John; Ribeiro, Sidarta Tollendal Gomes

Portable devices to induce lucid dreams — are they reliable?

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dc.contributor.author	Mota-Rolim, Sérgio A.
dc.contributor.author	Pavlou, Achilleas
dc.contributor.author	Nascimento, George Carlos do
dc.contributor.author	Fontenele-Araujo, John
dc.contributor.author	Ribeiro, Sidarta Tollendal Gomes
dc.date.accessioned	2019-06-17T13:48:45Z
dc.date.available	2019-06-17T13:48:45Z
dc.date.issued	2019-05
dc.description.resumo	One of the main current challenges in lucid dreaming (LD) research is to develop a simple and reliable way to induce it (Stumbrys et al., 2012). This is because, for most people, LD is very pleasurable but also very rare (LaBerge and Rheingold, 1990; Mota-Rolim et al., 2013). Along with its recreational nature, LD also has potential clinical applications, such as the treatment of recurrent nightmares in post-traumatic stress disorder (Aurora et al., 2010; Mota-Rolim and Araujo, 2013; Morgenthaler et al., 2018). This has attracted the attention of high-tech companies, which have been launching portable LD induction devices commercially available to the general public. This equipment captures electroencephalographic (EEG) activity for the online detection of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the sleep stage associated with typical dreaming (Aserinsky and Kleitman, 1953; Dement and Kleitman, 1957; for review, see Hobson et al., 2000). To induce lucidity, most devices provide visual, auditory, and/or tactile stimuli as sensory cues, which can become incubated into the dream content to alert dreamers that they are dreaming but without waking them up (LaBerge et al., 1981a; LaBerge and Levitan, 1995). Other devices provide transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) of the frontal cortex (Voss et al., 2014). Here we review 10 such devices: DreamLight, NovaDreamer, Aurora, Remee, REM-Dreamer, ZMax, Neuroon, iBand, LucidCatcher, and Aladdin.	pt_BR
dc.identifier.doi	10.3389/fnins.2019.00428
dc.identifier.uri	https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/27207
dc.language	en	pt_BR
dc.subject	lucid dreams	pt_BR
dc.subject	lucid dreams induction devices	pt_BR
dc.title	Portable devices to induce lucid dreams — are they reliable?	pt_BR
dc.type	article	pt_BR