In 2013, a group of scientists led by Ursula Voss created the Lucidity and Consciousness in Dreams Scale (LuCID). As various researchers have repeatedly noted, mindfulness in a dream is not always perfect. There exist many intermediate states between an ordinary dream and a lucid one—from slight doubts about the reality of the surrounding space to almost complete control.
Scientists from Argentina—Valiensi, Raffaelli, Rosler and Izbizky—came to the conclusion that they lack Spanish-speaking tools for evaluating lucid dreams, and decided to adapt LuCID to the Spanish language while modifying it to take into account cross-cultural interpretation.
The eight aspects measured by the scale, however, remained pretty much the same:
– control
– introspection
– dissociation
– memory
– thoughts
– realism
– positive emotion
– negative emotion
The only aspect to have been replaced was “insight,” which made way for “introspection”— most likely part of the intercultural adaptation of the scale. More than two hundred volunteers took part in testing the Spanish-language version. Almost a third, as the researchers note, turned out to be lucid dreamers.
On what aspects of the scale are your dreams usually close to lucidity, and on what aspects are they far removed?
The article was published in March 2022 in the journal Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Córdoba.
