Lucid Dreaming App Reviews
Here's a collection of the most popular, unusual and intriguing lucid dreaming app for iOS, Android and Windows. To get a detailed insight into the features and goals of these apps, I've invited the app developers themselves to give us a complete rundown.
The following app reviews aim to reveal how the latest smartphone technologies can potentially enhance your lucid dream life, with a range of dynamic features including reality check reminders, cloud dream journals, peronalized audio cues, expert lucidity tutorials, meditation sounds and programmable dream alarms. Technology is in no way essential to learning to lucid dreaming but for the tech-lovers among you - go wild.
10 Steps to Lucid Dreams - Android
My very own 10 Steps to Lucid Dreams app review for Android. Featuring dream signs, visualizations and dream herb guides.
Awoken - Android
Andreas Rudolph's Awoken app review for Android. Featuring reality checks, totem sounds and a cloud-based dream journal.
Lucid Dreamer - iOS and Android
Matthew Silber's Lucid Dreamer app review for iOS and Android. Featuring binaural beats, reality checker, paralyzer, focalizer and dreamscapes.
Lucidity App - Android
Lucidity is a new free Android app by Christopher Benz. It supports several innovative features to help you record and analyze your dreams.
Lucid Dreaming App - iOS and Android
Alexander Stone's Lucid Dreaming App review for iOS and Android. Featuring REM tracking and a self-disabling alarm for DEILD or dream chaining.
DreamZ - iOS
Adam Siton's DreamZ app review for iOS. Featuring sleep cycle tracking, personalized audio cues and reality checks.
SHADOW - iOS
SHADOW is an iOS app that will help you record and remember your dreams. It will also create the world's biggest dream database for wide-scale analysis...
DreamCatcher Project - iOS
Jesse Frye's DreamerCatcher Project app review for iOS. Featuring a speech-to-text dream journal to quickly record your dreams.
Lucid Dream Ultimate - Android
Evan Michaux's Lucid Dream Ultimate App review for Android. Featuring reality check reminders, dream journal, brainwave entrainment and dream alarms.
CanLucidDream - Windows
Simon Canning's CanLucidDream app review for Windows. Featuring pre-scripted lucid dreams plus text-to-speech and sound effects to program dream content.
Lucidity - iOS, by Curtis Development
Shane Curtis' free iOS app, featuring a fully functional dream journal and detailed Q&A section for your education and edification.
About the author
Rebecca Turner is a science writer, illustrator, explorer of consciousness - and founder of World of Lucid Dreaming. She is currently studying for a biology degree in Auckland and blogging at her site Science Me.
The Anatomy of a Dreaming Supplement
A lot has happened in the last 5 months. But how did we go from business as usual to changing the face of the entire lucid dreaming supplements industry? It’s a story that I think will interest you – and you might even learn a thing or two in the process. When I was first taken on-board as Chief Lucidity Officer in 2016, one of the first things I was tasked with was taking a good look at our operations and giving things a bit of an overhaul.
How a Lucid Dreaming Community Was Born
Gather round. I’ve a story to tell. It’s a story of tragedy, re-birth and fresh beginnings... But fear not, it has a happy ending! Our forum had some pretty impressive stats at its peak: 60,171 posts, 134 people online at once and over 10,000 registered users.
How to remember your dreams
To lucid dream, I recommend being able to remember at least one vivid dream per night. That will boost your self awareness in dreams (making lucidity more likely) and also means you can actually remember your lucid dreams. Which is nice. Here are four detailed tips on how to remember your dreams more frequently. And if you don't think you dream at all - trust me, you almost certainly do. It takes an extraordinarily rare sleep disorder to deprive someone of dream sleep.
What Do Lucid Dreams Feel Like?
Years ago, before I had my first lucid dream, I had a very specific idea about what a lucid dream would feel like. I thought it would be intense and magical and a little bit spooky. This turned out to be a pretty accurate representation. Becoming aware in the dreamstate is like entering another world. One where physical laws can be manipulated (there is no spoon, Neo) and your fantasies can come true in an instant. There's definitely something magical about that - and it's as if the lucid dream world is a living, breathing organism that can react to your very thoughts.
How to have amazing lucid dreams
Experts agree that everyone is capable of having lucid dreams. Dreaming itself is a normal function of the mind. We all dream every night, even if we don't remember. And we all achieve conscious awareness while awake every single day. So what does it mean to combine these states? Why, the amazing ability to have conscious - or lucid - dreams. Sounds simple, doesn't it? So why do I keep hearing from people who say they can't achieve their first lucid dream?
Mugwort: Dream Sage of the Chumash Indians
It is estimated that these wise and wily Indians have been using mugwort in their healing and ritual practices for 13,000 years, where it is known as the ‘dream sage’. They use the herb to promote good dreams, which they consider an essential aspect of normal human functioning! But that’s not all...
