How often do we lucid dream?

How often do we lucid dream - In this article I am answering the question 'How often do we lucid dream".

Lucid dreaming is a state in which a person is at the same time dreaming and aware of being in a dream.

If you are curious about lucid dreaming, make sure you also read the following articles:

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Let's now answer the question 'how often do people lucid dream."

How often do we lucid dream?

According to a study from 2016, 55% of adults experience lucid dreaming at least once in their life, while 23% have lucid dreams at least once a month (1):

Although many people may have been briefly lucid during dreaming, for most people lucidity happens only very rarely, if ever. In dream samples, lucidity occurs on average only in one or a few dream reports out of a hundred. Only about 20% of people report having lucid dreams at least once per month.

Only 1% of people experience lucid dreaming several times a week (2).

For most individuals lucid dreams spontaneously occur infrequently, however there is substantial variation in lucid dream frequency, ranging, by current estimates, from never (approximately 40–50%) to monthly (approximately 20%) to a small percentage of people that experience lucid dreams several times per week or in some cases every night.

These numbers are consistent with another study, focused on people from Germany, where 51% of participants said they experienced a lucid dream at least once in their lifetime (3).

Frequency of lucid dreaming has also been associated with some personality traits that make frequent lucid dreamers more intelligent than non- or less-frequent lucid dreamers.

It's important to notice that lucid dreaming is not an innate talent belonging exclusively to certain individuals (

For people who would like to learn how to lucid dream more often, I recommend 5 ways to induce a lucid dreaming state.

If you are looking for a relatively quick way to enter a lucid dreaming state, it's also worth considering a lucid dreaming mask such as the Remee one.

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