Dreaming While Awake or Awake While Dreaming
Baland Jalal, a scientist at Harvard and Cambridge Universities, studies the topic of sleep paralysis. In a new article published in the journal Big Think, the researcher addressed many questions…
Dream Control: From Attention to Awareness
Traditionally, it was believed that humans had no control over the dream world. Psychoanalysis has expanded these ideas to an extent by suggesting that our subconscious mind actively constructs the…
Dawn after Sleep Paralysis
The artist Hanna Newman uses her personal experience of sleep paralysis to express feelings through art. Her latest exhibition of sculptures, entitled Dawn, merges the physical with the psychological. She…
Near-Death Experience as a Philosophical Category
Evidence of near-death experiences often includes stories about a tunnel with a light at the end, or meetings with deceased relatives. Sometimes (and this is a subject that has attracted…
Sleep Waker Band: Fighting Sleep Paralysis Through Music
Sleep Waker is the pseudonym used by drummer Frankie Mish, who writes music based on personal experiences of dreams and nightmares. “When I had the idea to start the band,…
The Influence of Near-Death Experiences on Dreams
The term “phase states” combines states such as lucid dreams, out-of-body and near-death experiences, sleep paralysis, and false awakenings. The connection of these phenomena have interested a psychotherapist from the…
How to Take a Photo of a Dream
Photographing a dream is a task that may seem strange at first. A drawing, a 3D visualization, or a feature film might be understandable. But a photo? Yet, this is…
Dream Pictures – The Result of Ordered Chaos
The Anima Mundi gallery of contemporary art in Cornwall, UK, is currently presenting the debut solo exhibition The Compass & The Rosary by artist and musician Luke Hannam. The show…
Future Development of the Dialogue between the Two Worlds
In February 2021, the journal Current Biology published an article by a group of scientists led by Karen Konkoly, in which the reasearchers demonstrated the ability to communicate with lucid…
