Dream Yoga Inspired Intervention for Anxiety
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
This trial explores a program inspired by Tibetan Dream Yoga to determine if it can be delivered in a modern way to help with anxiety. The study aims to assess whether this program can improve sleep, thinking patterns, and creativity through techniques like meditation and lucid dreaming (being aware of dreaming while still in the dream). Participants will either engage in this Dream Yoga Inspired Intervention or a general sleep and health education program. The trial seeks healthy adults who remember their dreams at least once a month and do not have a regular meditation practice or certain health issues. As an Early Phase 1 trial, this research focuses on understanding how the treatment works in people, offering participants a chance to be among the first to explore its potential benefits.
Will I have to stop taking my current medications?
The trial information does not specify whether you need to stop taking your current medications. However, it does exclude people with psychological or psychiatric disorders (other than mild anxiety), which might imply that certain medications could be a factor. It's best to discuss your specific situation with the trial organizers.
Is there any evidence suggesting that this trial's treatments are likely to be safe?
Research on the safety of the Dream Yoga Inspired Intervention remains in its early stages. This study primarily aims to assess the program's effective delivery and participant acceptance. As an early phase study, the main focus is not yet on safety results. However, early phases typically involve careful monitoring to ensure no major safety issues arise.
The program includes techniques such as guided imagination, meditation, lucid dreaming, and virtual reality. These methods are generally low-risk and non-invasive, not involving surgery or medication. While detailed safety data is not yet available, similar mindfulness and meditation practices have been well-tolerated in other studies. Participants will be closely monitored for any problems or side effects.
For those considering participation, it is important to know that the study will closely examine participants' feelings about the program and any early changes in sleep and thinking. Participants will have the opportunity to provide feedback throughout the process.12345Why are researchers excited about this trial?
Researchers are excited about the Dream Yoga Inspired Intervention for anxiety because it combines ancient Tibetan Dream Yoga practices with modern technology, offering a unique approach to managing anxiety. Unlike typical treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy or medication, this intervention uses wearable devices and virtual reality to promote lucid dreaming and reduce self-grasping. This innovative method aims to enhance participants' ability to influence their dreams, which could lead to new ways of alleviating anxiety symptoms. Through engaging with these immersive experiences, researchers hope to discover if blurring the lines between self and others during these sessions can significantly impact anxiety levels.
What evidence suggests that this trial's treatments could be effective for anxiety?
Research has shown that people who meditate regularly tend to experience lucid dreaming more often than those who don't. Lucid dreaming involves being aware that you are dreaming while still in the dream. This awareness can help manage anxiety and other mental health issues. Studies have found that lucid dreaming can lower anxiety, boost mood, and help people break free from rigid ways of thinking. In this trial, the Dream Yoga Inspired Intervention uses meditation, guided imagination, and virtual reality to enhance these benefits. Early findings suggest that these practices could support mental well-being and improve sleep. Another arm of this trial, the Sleep Health Enhancement program, focuses on sleep hygiene and health-enhancing practices as an active comparator.35678
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
This trial is for individuals with anxiety disorders who are interested in exploring alternative mental health interventions. Participants should be willing to engage in contemplative sleep practices, including guided imagination and meditation, supported by virtual reality and sleep-monitoring tech. Details on specific inclusion or exclusion criteria are not provided.Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
Timeline for a Trial Participant
Screening
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial
Intervention
Participants engage in a Dream-Yoga-inspired program or a comparison program focused on general health and sleep education, including virtual-reality experiences and home-based sleep-monitoring technology.
Follow-up
Participants are monitored for changes in sleep, dreaming, and cognitive flexibility after the intervention.
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- Dream Yoga Inspired Intervention
Trial Overview
The study tests a Dream Yoga inspired program against a general health and sleep education program. It involves lucid dreaming techniques, meditation, virtual reality experiences, and home-based sleep monitoring to see if it's feasible to deliver these practices for psychological well-being.
How Is the Trial Designed?
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Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
This customized contemplative training will guide participants in exploring techniques used in Tibetan Dream Yoga. Strategies in Tibetan Dream-Yoga manuals are thus transferred to a modern context and adapted as a group intervention. Goals will be set for dreaming that include gaining a degree of volitional influence over the dream. Wearable devices will be used to present cues during sleep both to provoke lucidity and to remind individuals of Dream-Yoga exercises to be engaged during sleep. Virtual-reality (VR) sessions provide a novel adjunct to Dream Yoga, in keeping with prior research integrating lucid dreaming and VR (Gott et al., 2021). The protocol progresses though several group activities; individuals feel themselves dispersing into a void within the VR world, and then blending with others, leading the reduced self-grasping. If this unique VR component can blur conventional self-other boundaries, it may reinforce the progressive instructions in Dream Yoga.
A modified version of the Health Enhancement Program (HEP), which was developed as an active control condition for mindfulness-based interventions, with a particular focus on sleep hygiene. It controls for several non-specific factors such as expectations of positive change, group support, behavioural activation, facilitator attention, at-home practice, treatment duration, and format (MacCoon et al., 2012; Rosenkranz et al., 2013). Our modified HEP will be structurally equivalent to the Dream-Yoga condition, with high similarity on non-program-specific factors, including timing and number of sessions. The two VR sessions will focus on health enhancement. Participants will be taught positive health-enhancing practices, such as healthy diet and gentle exercise, with activity-based sessions covering exercise, sleep, dreaming, stress, anxiety, nutrition, journaling, music enjoyment, and drawing. Home practice and implementation of health-enhancing habits will be encouraged.
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
Northwestern University
Lead Sponsor
Tiny Blue Dot Foundation
Collaborator
University of Virginia
Collaborator
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