Lucidity (festival)

Lucidity is an annual, three-day transformational festival in Santa Barbara, California.

The festival's name alludes to lucid dreams; the events producers encourage attendees to "awake in [their] dreams".

The event has been compared to Burning Man, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Lightning in a Bottle, Electric Daisy Carnival, and the San Francisco New Year’s Eve event Sea of Dreams.

It features performance arts and music stages featuring bands, spoken word artists, dancers and DJs. There is a large vendor area, including a focus on local foods, jewelry, clothing and sustainable goods.

Live Oak Campground has been the site of many other music festivals, such as Lightning in a Bottle, from 2006–2008, until that event outgrew the venue.

Lucidity went on hiatus for 2020 and 2021, although virtual festivals were held. It returned in person in 2020.

In September 2024, the 12th year of the event, the Lucidity Festival organizers, citing “unforeseen last-minute changes in requirements” imposed by Santa Barbara County, announced that the festival had to be canceled. Subsequently, shortly before the event was to take place, the organizers stated that they could not financially recover from the “postponement” and announced there would be no refunds for the already-purchased passes. Ominously, Lucidity warned that if a location to host the event cannot be secured by April 2025, they will declare bankruptcy and end the festival for good.