Researchers from Pakistan—Aarzu Zahid, Yumna Ali, and Syeda Farhana Kazmi—studied how sleep quality and demographic characteristics (gender, age, and income) affect anxiety and the practice of lucid dreaming. The authors surveyed sixty-one healthy adult university students.
They found that sleep quality has an insignificant relationship with the practice of lucid dreaming, as do age, income, and gender. Interestingly, sleep quality does not affect anxiety or overall concern about dreams. It turns out that sleep quality, anxiety, and the ability to gain lucidity are three different indicators that may be related, albeit not substantially.
However, the researchers do not abandon the idea of exploring gender differences in more depth and trying to understand whether men or women are more prone to remembering dreams and becoming lucid in them. Other important factors may also include caffeine consumption, frequency of sports training, and hours spent scrolling through social media or playing video games.
Have you noticed how habits, sleep patterns, or age affect lucid dreams?
The article was published in January 2025 in the International Journal of Dream Research.
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