August 31 2021 – Patricia Garfield’s birthday
Patricia Garfield, PhD in clinical psychology, is a world authority in the field of dreams. She has written more than ten books on the topic, the most famous among them…
Empty Lucid Dreams as Clear Mind
Vedic traditions and Tibetan Buddhism describe a special state of consciousness that occurs during deep sleep called sushupti. This is a kind of lucid dream (LD) without the dream as…
Out-of-Body Experience as a Result of a Traumatic Experience
An out-of-body experience (OBE) occurs when a person looks at the world from a point outside of his physical body. There is a lot of unproven information about this phenomenon.…
Is Gogol’s “The Portrait” the Earliest Non-Medical Description of Sleep Paralysis?
Many world-famous writers (Dickens, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Maupassant, etc.) had impressive powers of observation. Their works contained accurate descriptions of medical conditions long before they appeared in scientific treatises. A group…
August 16 2021 – Sergio Arthuro Mota-Rolim’s birthday
Sergio Arthuro Mota-Rolim is a research collaborator at the Brain Institute and the Sleep Laboratory of the Onofre Lopes Hospital at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil).…
August 14 2021 – Victor Spoormaker’s birthday
Victor Spoormaker is a Dutch researcher and author of books on the topic of sleep and dreams. He works at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (Germany) and…
Drummer of Hi Rhythm Section Says He Talked to God
Howard Grimes is an American drummer, best known as a member of the Hi Rhythm Section, one of the greatest house bands of all time, according to the portal Commercial…
Lucid Dreaming as a Way to Cope with the Pandemic
The coronavirus outbreak we have seen since the end of 2019 has affected people around the world. Italy was one of the first affected countries, where measures in the form…
Is it Possible to See the Future in a Near-Death Experience?
Many people who have experienced clinical death claim that their whole life flashed before their eyes. But is it possible at this stressful moment to look into the future as…
The Lead Singer of Led Zeppelin Mastered Lucid Dreaming to Meet Dead People
British singer and songwriter Robert Plant is known primarily as the lead singer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. After its breakup in 1980, Plant embarked on a solo career,…
Near-Death Experiences in Science and Religion
In ancient Greek philosophy, there was a concept of “revenants” – people who returned after death to become a kind of bridge between the living and the dead. Plato, Heraclitus,…
The Influence of Sleep Paralysis on Mimi Choi’s Optical Illusions
Mimi Choi from Vancouver is not just a famous makeup artist, but a painter who uses the human face as the canvas for her imagination, with a particular penchant for…
Stuck in Lucid Nightmares
Post-traumatic stress disorder contributes to nightmares and increased awareness during sleep in the absence of control over the situation. This conclusion was reached by researchers Katherine Miller, Richard Ross, and…
False Awakenings in the Creative Work of the Group Reaping Asmodeia
The metal band Reaping Asmodeia from Minneapolis (USA) was founded in 2013 by former members of With Dead Hands Rising, and released their debut album a year later. In July…
