Reliability and stability of lucid dream and nightmare frequency scales

International Journal of Dream Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 53-56

  Stumbrys, Tadas ^a   Erlacher, Daniel ^b   Schredl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Frequency; Lucid dreams; Nightmares; Reliability; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886425158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18667953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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