Academic survey about lucid dreaming

**luz2019** · 04-03-2019 09:43 AM

Hi,

I am a student from the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. I am writing my master thesis about lucid dreaming. Therefor I created an online survey to investigate what factors may contribute to lucid experiences.

I would be delighted if you would like to participate and help me (and science) for a better understanding of lucid dreaming.

Due to methodological issues, I am only looking for participants who

-never received a diagnose of a sleeping disorder, psychiatric disorder or neurological disorder
-can recall three dreams per week or more (no matter if lucid or not)

At the beginning of the survey, I will ask you about these criteria. Please do not feel bad, if you cannot participate because of these reasons.

The survey will take about 10-20 minutes, and you will have the chance to win one out of three 20$ Amazon vouchers (or equivalent to your currency) if you completed it.

The link: https://www.soscisurvey.de/luz2019/

Thank you very much for your interest and participation!

Kind regards,
Stephan

**Sivason** · 04-04-2019 01:02 AM

Interesting. can you explain why you are excluding these groups? For instance, I suffer from seasonal depression and take meds for it about 4 out of 12 months. How would this invalidate any results? I am truly not offended, but being a scientist myself am honestly interested in why this exclusion criteria is there.

**luz2019** · 04-15-2019 10:53 AM

Hey sivason, sorry for my late answer. This is indeed a very strict criterium and maybe a bit too overgeneralizing. I just hope to reduce outliers by this.

**Sivason** · 04-16-2019 04:58 AM

Is the outlier reduction because maybe mental illness would have a higher rate of liars who make stuff up?

**luz2019** · 04-23-2019 05:42 PM

Mostly because psychic illness often comes with sleeping issues. Idk if there are more liars, I would say only in specific groups of mental illnesses not in general.
And trouble with sleeping would of course bring a lot of variance. But again, to exclude all people with some diagnose of cause is a very broad category...