Lucid Dreams Train Vestibular Apparatus
Flying is one of the frequent hobbies of lucid dreamers. Engagement in this activity seems to be motivated by pure pleasure—the opportunity to experience something that is not available in…
Are Lucid Dreamers Sensitive and Selfish Extroverts?
Every second person has had a lucid dream at least once, but the regularity of this experience varies from never to several nights a week. A group of German scientists…
Earlier Sleep Interruption Reduces the Chances of Lucidity
Lucid dreaming (LD) is a platform that presents a huge number of opportunities: from personal growth and healing to entertainment and traveling. Dialogue with dreamers in real time opens up…
Is Lucid Dreaming a Source of Pleasure or Problems?
Lucid dreams (LD) are most often a pleasant experience, saturated with vivid emotions. Surveys show that practitioners usually strive for mindfulness in dream for pleasure (flight, sex, etc.). Scientists from…
Lucid Dreamers Have Fun Alone
A lucid dream (LD) is one in which the person in question realizes they are dreaming. If a dreamer can control their actions in a dream, they usually choose to…
Regular Sleeping Schedule as Prevention of Sleep Paralysis
Although people of all ages may experience sleep paralysis (SP), adolescents and young people are more likely to suffer from this disorder. Episodes can be triggered by daytime stress, fatigue,…
Through Mindfulness and Meditation to Lucid Dreams
Nightmares are closely related to stress and poor health. Buddhist mindfulness practices can reduce stress, improve sleep, and promote mental health. One of the techniques to improve mindfulness is meditation.…
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Lucid Dreaming Scale
In 2013, a group of scientists led by Ursula Voss created the Lucidity and Consciousness in Dreams Scale (LuCID). As various researchers have repeatedly noted, mindfulness in a dream is…
Do Synesthetes Have Lucid Dreams More Often?
Synesthesia is a phenomenon of perception in which one sensory input provokes a response linked to another sense. A synesthete can see sounds, hear colors, or, for example, taste words.…
Transitioning from a Nightmare to a Lucid Dream with the Help of Emotions
There is a hypothesis that the frequency of one’s nightmares affects the number of lucid dreams (LD) they experience. Awareness caused by anxiety allows one to resist the threat in…
Experiment with Smartwatches to Stimulate Lucid Dreams
Scientists from Northwestern University (USA) who last year participated in a new sensational international study on communicating with dreamers in real time, launched a new experiment on March 31 on…
“Cheating the Ferryman”—a Provocative Viewpoint on Death
Anthony Peake is a British writer and radio presenter, researcher of near-death experiences (NDE) and other ambiguously interpreted mental phenomena. His latest theory, which he calls “Cheating the Ferryman,” offers…
Near-Death Experience: an Evolutionary Approach vs. the Esoteric
In June 2021, a group of scientists from Denmark and Belgium published an article in the journal Brain Communications with a hypothesis about the biological origin of near-death experiences (NDE).…
Stephen LaBerge: 40 Hz Power Has Nothing to Do with Lucid Dreams
In 2009, a group of German researchers led by Ursula Voss recorded increased activity in the frontal zones at 40 Hz power during lucid dreams (LD). Based on these data,…
March 25 2022 – Tadas Stumbrys’s birthday
Tadas Stumbrys is a psychologist, lecturer and active researcher of lucid dreams (LD) from Lithuania. He has been working on this topic since 2008, when he first experienced a lucid…
Phase Research Center’s Publications under Sanctions
“Two of our studies were expected to be published in a few days in International Journal of Dream Research. But it won’t because we’re based in Russia. I hope the…
March 3 2022 – Brian Sharpless’s Birthday
Brian Sharpless is a clinical psychologist and author from the US. His particular subject of interest is sleep disorders and sleep paralysis (SP). As the researcher says, SP is a…
Are Nightmares Harbingers of Lucid Dreams?
The category of lucid dreams (LD) also includes lucid nightmares – dreams in which the person realizes that they are dreaming but cannot escape the frightening scenario. According to researchers…
Artist and Anthropologist Creates Map of Lucid Dreams
Lydia Nakashima Degarrod is an American artist and anthropologist. For twenty-three years she has been creating works at the intersection of ethnography and art and presented a number of her…
Analytical Mindset as a Weapon Against Sleep Paralysis
Researchers from different countries have been studying the effects of stress and psychological disorders on sleep paralysis (SP) for some time. Recently, scientists from Ireland – Costello, Dennigan, and Egan…
