Two Worlds, Two Selves
Imagine that you return to the same city every night in your dreams. Familiar characters await you, as do continuations of yesterday’s tasks and adventures. American scientists Jonathan Gore, Carole…
Sherlock’s False Awakenings
“The Abominable Bride”—an Emmy-winning episode of Sherlock—sees Benedict Cumberbatch’s Victorian detective delving into the depths of his mind like a seasoned lucid dreamer, blurring the lines between reality and hallucination.…
A Lucid Dreaming Animated Film from Netflix
Netflix promises to take lucid dreaming to a new level in its animated film, In Your Dreams. Adults have iconic films like Inception or A Nightmare on Elm Street, and…
Lifestyle as a Remedy for Sleep Paralysis
Forty percent of people have experienced sleep paralysis at least once in their lives—a terrifying state where the mind awakens, but the body refuses to move. This figure was presented…
Imitation of Control
Researchers from China, led by CAO Zhihui, have devised an installation that consists of three screens to simulate the control experienced in lucid dreams. The left screen displays “rational vision,”…
Do Lucid Dreams Fade Without Practice?
If someone regularly achieves lucidity in their dreams and expertly controls the space and narrative within, will they always be able to? German scientists Michael Schredl (a dedicated researcher in…
The First Time—The Hardest?
Simple techniques for lucid dreaming don’t work for most people, and it’s almost impossible to experience your first lucid dream using them. This conclusion was drawn by Michael Schredl, a…
Heroes: Sylar’s Lucid Nightmare
Heroes is a series about people who suddenly discover they have superpowers. One can fly, another can control time, a third can read minds, and so on. Most of the…
What Happens in the Brain During a Near-Death Experience?
One in twenty people may experience a near-death experience. One in five people report having spiritual “adventures” after emerging from a coma. These statistics were presented by Belgian neuroscientist Charlotte…
Finals, Exams, and Sleep Paralysis
Scientists often study sleep paralysis in students. It’s believed that their lives concentrate on all the provoking factors—stress, lack of sleep, alcohol, and an overall unhealthy schedule. Another survey was…
Out-of-Body Experiences in Sleep and Wakefulness
American researchers conducted an out-of-body experiment in which 35 participants who had experience with lucid dreaming or meditation spent a night in a lab. The method involved meditation and light…
Out-of-Body Experiences: Quantum Leap or Brain Glitch?
Scientists have been studying out-of-body experiences since at least the mid-1980s. Spanish researchers led by Jenny Moix conducted a large-scale literature review in which they selected 87 scientific papers and…
Near-Death Experiences—A Solution to the Ecological Crisis?
Near-death experiences may be the key to solving global challenges, including the ecological crisis. This unexpected perspective is proposed by Danish researcher Tobias Anker Stripp, who analyzed thousands of testimonies…
Stuck in a Semi-Lucid Dream
The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe was originally conceived as a comic novel. Its characters are caricatured, and each has their own sleep-related struggles. Later, the author himself was…
Prophetic Lucid Dreams
Is it possible to see the future in a lucid dream? Researchers from the US and the UK, led by Julia Mossbridge, conducted an experiment to find out. The test…
Jeremy Renner Didn’t Want to Return to His Body
Jeremy Renner—two-time Oscar nominee and Marvel star known worldwide as Hawkeye—went through a true ordeal in 2023, as reported by Philstar. The actor was crushed by a 14-ton machine and…
Interview with a Practitioner: Daniil Dobro
Daniil Dobro (Russia, Vladimir) is a lucid dreamer with eight years of experience. He becomes lucid about three times a month. – What is the best technique? – I believe…
June 3 – Allan Hobson’s Birthday
Allan Hobson was an American psychiatrist who challenged Freud’s psychoanalysis. As Hobson said in an interview, “Psychoanalysis has become the bible, and I think that’s crazy.” He argued that dreams…
Near-Death Experiences and the Bible: Five Parallels
People who have near-death experiences often report encounters with spiritual beings. But are these beings similar to the Holy Spirit described in the Bible? German researcher Thomas Fuhrmann compared Christian…
