LuciTouch: Influencing Lucid Dreams Through Incorporation of Somatosensory Stimuli. | Rakesh Patibanda
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LuciTouch: Influencing Lucid Dreams Through Incorporation of Somatosensory Stimuli.

Embodied Interaction Short Paper
Year2025
VenueUIST Adjunct '25
Pages4 pages
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Lucid dreaming can offer many benefits, such as reducing nightmares and enhancing creativity; however, insufficient dream control may limit these benefits.

Lucid dreaming can offer many benefits, such as reducing nightmares and enhancing creativity; however, insufficient dream control may limit these benefits. To remedy this, we designed three modular somatosensory cues for use during lucid dreams that aim to enhance lucid dream body control. Through this process, we discovered several insights into designing systems to support lucid dreaming.

Ashlyn Doyle, Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Yuchen Zheng, Rakesh Patibanda, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller

EMS altered states of consciousness dream control haptic lucid dreaming sleep wearable
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Ashlyn Doyle
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Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang
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Yuchen Zheng
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Rakesh Patibanda
Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller