Lucid Dreams Transform Practitioners’ Brains
The German gestalt psychologist Paul Toley first described the criteria distinguishing lucid dreams from ordinary dreams in 1981. These included awareness of spatial orientation, awareness of the capacity of choice,…
Happy Birthday to Project Elijah
On November 29, 2018, the Phase Research Center launched Project Elijah – the world’s first in-line resource for phase state research, including lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences. About two dozen…
Are Lucid Dreams Good for Us?
Nirit Soffer-Dudek from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, asks this question in the article published in the Frontiers in Neuroscience journal. According to the researcher, techniques of deliberate…
Famous Journalist Reveals How to Get Rid of a Demon Based on Personal Experience
Men’s Health journalist, Mark Hay, shared his experience in dealing with sleep paralysis, which may be of interest to many lucid dreaming practitioners. After all, his main “cure” was based…
Does Electrical Stimulation Induce Lucid Dreams?
In 2014, a sensational study was published by German scientists led by Ursula Voss. It claimed to have successfully induced lucid dreaming using transcranial AC stimulation. Electrical stimulation using a…
How Your Culture Affects Perception of Sleep Paralysis
Those who are unfamiliar with the causes of sleep paralysis (muscle atrophy on the verge of sleep) often describe this phenomenon as a “paranormal” experience. Sleep paralysis is experienced by…
VR Technologies Stimulate Flight in Dreams
Flying in a dream is both a pleasure and an unforgettable experience. Such dreams, as a rule, are rare and few people can repeat them consciously. However, a team of…
COVID-19 Quarantine Increased Incidence of Sleep Paralysis in Narcoleptics
In October 2020 the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine published a study in which Brazilian scientists from the Federal University of São Paulo assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Famous Blogger Shared a Story of “Paranormal” Dreams
On Halloween Eve, Singaporean blogger and DJ Jade Rasif posted a series of Instagram stories describing how her family experienced “paranormal” occurrences in their sleep. At the age of 9,…
Out-of-Body Experiences: Fear or Revelation?
How does an out-of-body experience (OBE) affect the people who have had it? Dutch scientist Elpine M. de Boer tried to answer this question in a study published in October…
Does Ketamine Reveal the Nature of Out-of-Body Experience?
Ketamine is a wide spectrum anesthetic, which in recent years has become an illegal substance in many countries due to drug abuse. However, while some scientists and medical professionals debate…
What Can Near-Death Experiences Tell Us About the Brain?
A man named Kevin nearly died in a motorcycle accident that left him unconscious. As he approached the point of collision, his life flashed before his eyes. After the incident,…
Insufficient or Excessive Sleep Leads to Sleep Paralysis and Lucid Dreams
Scientists have found a correlation between sleep duration and lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, and out-of-body experiences (OBE). People who sleep more than 9 hours a day are more at risk…
The Color Green in a Dream Enhances Creativity
Creativity is known to play a prominent role in lucid dreaming. For example, some scientists are inclined to hypothesize that a penchant for fantasy enhances the bizarreness and vividness of…
Lack of Reality Checks Leads to “Paranormal Activity”
Is the frequency of lucid dreams, nightmares, and sleep paralysis related to deficiencies in reality testing and the dreamer’s paranormal experiences or beliefs? Scientists from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, tried…
Eye Movement as a Method of Lucid Dreams Confirmation Under Scrutiny
The scientific method of registration of lucid dreams – based on instructing dreamers to move their eyes in a dream at the moment of awareness – was first applied in…
What is More Bizarre: Lucid Dreams or Non-Lucid Dreams?
Not much research on lucid dreaming has come out of Asia so far. At the same time, the only study conducted in China in 2008 shocked scientists from other countries,…
