Do Antidepressants Cause Lucid Dreams?
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of drugs that include some of the most popular antidepressants on the market. They help to increase the levels of serotonin and…
Coping with Sleep Paralysis with the Help of Photography
American photographer Nicolas Bruno has been suffering from sleep paralysis (SP) since the age of six. In his waking life, he attempts to recreate his nightmares as a way to…
The Best Ways to Get into a Lucid Dream
Achieving lucidity in a dream is a skill that can be learned, although possibly not every method will be suitable to everyone. Scientists from the US – Liu, Ding, and…
The Epidemic of Sleep Paralysis in the Reality Show “The Bachelor” Continues
The Bachelor is one of the veterans of reality TV: ABC is currently filming season 26. A similar program from the same franchise is The Bachelorette. In the summer of…
Healings, UFOs, and Communication with the Dead Discussed at Scientific Conference
At the end of 2021, the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) held a two-week online conference on lucid dreams (LD), combining the scientific and esoteric. On the…
Lucid Dreams of Philosophers: Dreamed Ego or Dreaming Ego?
Sometime in the early 1930s, the Franco-German philosopher Jean Héring was walking along with friends when he suddenly realized that “they” were all dreaming. He tried to convince his friends…
How to Create the Illusion of Leaving the Body
At the moment of out-of-body experience (OBE), the person feels like they are positioned above the physical body. This is usually accompanied by a feeling of floating or flying. Researchers…
Emotional Stress from Sleep Paralysis
Sleep paralysis (SP) is one of the phase states, which also include lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, etc. Sleep paralysis can be quite frightening: the sufferer finds themselves conscious but suddenly…
Are Near-Death Experiences the Result of Computations in Your Brain?
The human brain is a set of neurons. Our emotions, sense of self, free will – all these are nothing more than the collective behavior of billions of nerve cells.…
Studies of Lucid Dreams in 2021
Last year, more than two dozen studies on lucid dreaming (LD) were published in international scientific journals. The leaders in this respect were the USA and Russia, with five papers…
Billie Eilish Believes Porn is the Cause of Sleep Paralysis
Billie Eilish is an American singer, songwriter, and multiple Grammy winner. At the beginning of 2021, the documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry was released, in which the…
Do Lucid Dreamers Suffer from More Nightmares?
The treatment of nightmares with the help of lucid dreams (one of the phase states, which also includes out-of-body experiences, sleep paralysis, etc.) has long been studied by researchers. Barngrover,…
Is Sleep Paralysis a New Symptom of Coronavirus?
Among other things, COVID-19 has caused an increase in cases of sleep paralysis (SP). This (preliminary) conclusion was reached by medical experts Kat Lederle, Greg Potter, and Hussain Abdeh. According…
Alien Abduction: Deception, Psychosis, Hypnosis, Anesthesia, Natural Phenomena or Sleep Paralysis?
Thousands of people around the world are convinced they were abducted by aliens. Researchers from Spain – José Latorre and María Vellisca – decided to analyze these stories. As the…
The Last Rite: the Demon of Sleep Paralysis in Reality
A young woman suffers from sleep paralysis (SP) and becomes the victim of a demon. She is forced to seek help from a local priest. This is how the new…
Half a Million Dollars for Best Proof of the Afterlife
Billionaire Robert Bigelow founded the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) in June 2020, and announced a competition for the most convincing proof of the existence of life after death.…
How to Communicate with Lucid Dreamers Correctly?
In February 2021, even people far-removed from the subject of lucid dreams (LD) heard about it when an international group of scientists led by Karen Konkoly (USA) presented the results…
Is Lucid Motors’ Dream Edition Electric Car the Embodiment of Lucid Dreaming or a Coincidence?
The media has already called the new model of the luxury electric car of the company Lucid Motors a lucid dream of CEO Peter Rawlinson. The car is named Dream…
The Saudi Arabian Genie of Sleep Paralysis
Each country has its own legends about the “demons” of sleep paralysis (SP). Researchers from Saudi Arabia (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Aleliwi, Bomouzah, Alghasham, Alhajri, and Alabdali) conducted a survey among…
Signs of Narcolepsy in Dante’s Divine Comedy
It has been 700 years since the death of the greatest Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). He entered the canon of world literature as the author of the Divine Comedy.…
