Lucid Dreaming is where, while dreaming people become aware that their current experience is in fact a dream. Support was sought to employ a research assistant to initiate the analyses of a pre-existing data-set of thousands of dream reports. Fundamental statistics were extracted e.g. on the time required to acquire lucidity, age, gender. The words used in describing lucid and non-lucid dreams were compared. The possibility was explored of using automatic text recognition software to extract key features of lucid dreams.
University of Lincoln, College of Social Science Research
Dr Patrick Bourke, University of Lincoln, School of Psychology