Flying dreams stimulated by an immersive virtual reality task |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments, University of Barcelona, Spain;2. ICE-NET Lab, Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;3. Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy;4. Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Igualada General Hospital, Barcelona, Spain;5. Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy;6. CIBER Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), and Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain;7. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain;8. Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Germans Tries i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain;1. University of Valencia, Spain;2. CIBER Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Spain;3. University of Zaragoza, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Despite a high prevalence and broad interest in flying dreams, these exceptional experiences remain infrequent. Our study aimed to (1) induce flying dreams using a custom-built virtual reality (VR) flying task, (2) examine their phenomenological correlates and (3) investigate their relations to participant state and trait factors. 137 participants underwent VR-flying followed by a morning nap. They also completed home dream journals for 5 days before and 10 days after the VR exposure. VR-flying successfully increased the reporting of flying dreams during the laboratory nap and on the following morning compared to both baseline frequencies and a control cohort. Flying dreams were also changed qualitatively, exhibiting higher levels of Lucid-control and emotional intensity, after VR exposure. Factors such as prior dream-flying experiences and level of VR sensory immersion modulated flying dream induction. Findings are consistent with a new vection-based explanation of dream-flying and may facilitate development of dream flight-induction technologies. |
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| Keywords: | Dreaming Flight simulation Virtual reality Gravity imagery Sense of presence Immersion Lucid dreaming Vection |
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