Scientists from Switzerland, including regular researchers on the topic Emma Peters and Daniel Erlacher, as well as Kathrin Fischer, taught a group of lucid dreamers how to juggle in a lucid dream. Four of the eight participants became lucid, and two tried to juggle. Although the authors admit that the sample size was too small to draw any firm conclusions about the benefits of such training, they made several other interesting discoveries.
It seems that internal attitudes play a crucial role in lucidity and plot control. People who successfully became lucid were confident in their ability to do so, while those who did not become lucid showed more skepticism and doubted the possibility of influencing reality through lucid dreaming.
To perform complex tasks in a lucid dream, you must first work on mental barriers. Our ideas about what is possible are carried over into our dreams. For example, a lucid dreamer easily tosses a ball into the air because it is a simple task. But they cannot make the ball writhe like a snake because this would violate the physical laws of the real world. So, when teaching lucidity techniques, it is also necessary to work on changing people’s beliefs.
Have you ever been hindered by internal barriers in a lucid dream?
The preprint of the article was published in February 2025 on bioRxiv.
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