Can Healing in Lucid Dreams Be Evaluated Through Saliva?
In 2022, American researcher Garret Yount conducted an ambitious six-day course on healing in lucid dreams for post-traumatic stress disorder. Later, as part of a group of scientists from the…
Chinese Scientists Break the Taboo on the Topic of Death
An international group of researchers from China, Belgium, and Canada, led by Yan Li, translated the famous Greyson near-death experience scale into Chinese. They noted that interest in this phenomenon…
Sexual Hallucinations During Sleep Paralysis
Sexual hallucinations can include images, sensations of touch, erotic dialogue, and even orgasms. However, these experiences are not as pleasant as one might think. Most of them are frightening and…
Are Lucid Dreamers Escaping from Reality?
Researchers from the Philippines and the USA, led by John Balch, decided to investigate the link between dissociative experiences and sleep disturbances. Dissociation involves emotional detachment as well as a…
Lucid Dreaming: Less Words, More Sex, and Flying
A permanent researcher of lucid dreaming from Germany, Michael Schredl, studied the dream diary of a practitioner who had been documenting his dreams for 32 years. The scientist admits that…
Lucid Dreaming as a Way to Distinguish Hallucinations from the Norm
Before and after sleep, a person may experience hypnagogic (upon falling asleep) or hypnopompic (upon awakening) hallucinations. However, as claimed by medical professional and researcher from Spain, Guglielmo Foffani, labeling…
Lucid Dreamers: Conscientious Neurotics Suffering from Nightmares?
Researchers from Pakistan, Ayesha Zahid Khana and Ayesha Umar, conducted a survey to understand what factors (e.g., personality traits or sleep habits) contribute to the practice of lucid dreaming. The…
“Hello! This is a Test Message from a Lucid Dream.”
German scientists Victoria Amo, Nikolai Godt, Johannes Leugering, and the perpetual researcher on this topic, Kristoffer Appel, conducted another experiment on communicating with lucid dreamers in real-time. However, the participants…
Studies of Lucid Dreams in 2023
In 2022, interest in the topic of lucid dreaming increased sharply: the number of scientific articles for that year doubled compared to 2021. In 2023, this trend continued, providing us…
January 16 – Mark Blagrove’s Birthday
Mark Blagrove is a professor of psychology and director of the Swansea University Sleep Laboratory in the UK. He is a consulting editor for the journal Dreaming and a former…
Out-of-Body Experiences and Their Connection to Other Phase States
Out-of-body experiences can be a sign of illness and may occur as a result of taking various substances or the electrical stimulation of specific brain areas. However, they are also…
Do Antidepressants Cause Sleep Paralysis?
A group of psychiatrists from the United States published a report on the treatment of a young man with depression, which led to a surge in episodes of sleep paralysis.…
What Can You Read About Near-Death Experiences?
American sociologist Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero has studied the literature on near-death experiences published over the past half-century. Raymond Moody’s bestseller Life After Life, published in the 1980s, created a surge of…
How to Enter a Lucid Dream with Galantamine
Galantamine is known among lucid dreaming enthusiasts as a “magic pill” that helps with the practice. But how exactly does it work? Scientists from the Netherlands, including the permanent researcher…
