Does the study of clinical death fulfill the scientific criteria? Is there such a phenomenon as near-death experiences at all, and how can it be scientifically proven? Such questions are…
Albeit with a slight delay, we continue to celebrate the birthdays of significant personalities in the history of phase studies. Sylvan Muldoon was born on February 18, 1903, in the…
The hypothesis of dream continuity states that our dreams are an extension of our waking life. Dreams can reflect our real-life experiences and problems and contain representations of events that…
Sometimes we think we know everything about a phenomenon, and then a discovery comes around that turns everything upside down. A person having an out-of-body experience can feel like they…
Even in the 21st century, despite all the scientific advances, many continue to use the term “astral projection” to refer to the phase state (or lucid dreams). This is mainly…
Autism is considered a personality disorder that entails difficulties with social interaction as well as self-perception. British scientists from the Anglia Ruskin University, led by Cari-lène Mul, conducted an experiment…
Sleep paralysis has long attracted the creators of horror films because in real life it scares us no less than on the screen. In this state, which occurs when we…
Baland Jalal is currently one of the most active researchers of the sleep paralysis phenomenon. A Research Fellow at Harvard University, he received his Ph.D. from Cambridge and is the…
REM means “rapid eye movement.” This physical feature is considered decisive in determining the onset of the REM sleep phase; however, the term describes several phenomena at once: the state…
While science and religion argue about what near-death experiences (NDEs) are, even the term itself and the identification of those who survived it are yet to be fully defined. Descriptions…
Can video games affect lucid dreaming frequency? This correlation was first discovered by researcher Jayne Gackenbach in 2006. When she interviewed university students who were more likely to have lucid…
Various aspects of sleep paralysis are regularly discussed in studies conducted in different countries, as well as on different age groups. Another such study, published in 2020 with a sample…
Mindfulness is directly related to the function of attention. This property has been studied in several scientific experiments, including a study conducted in 2010 to assess the frequency of lucid…
It is generally accepted that emotions strongly affect our memory. On the other hand, emotions represent a sense of oneself in time and space within one’s own body. What effect…
The British site, The Independent, in a recently published article, notes the increase in public interest in lucid dreaming over the past year. For example, the query on Google “how…
The indirect phase method, that is, entering a lucid dream or out-of-body experience immediately upon awakening and without losing consciousness, is one of the most effective phase induction techniques. At…
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are of great interest to science, however, the difficulty in studying them lies in the fact that they are based on subjective memories. To overcome this issue,…
It is believed that sleep paralysis is extremely rare in old age. Most studies attribute this phenomenon to a younger age group, especially college students and teens. However, there is…
