The Dream Masters
A group of villains has seized power and are controlling people’s dreams using psychotropic substances and hypnosis. Anyone who opposes them begins to have nightmares, and the wounds inflicted on…
Do Smartphones Cause Sleep Paralysis?
Excessive gadget use disrupts sleep, leading to insomnia, nightmares, and sleep paralysis. Researchers in China, led by Qian-Wen Lin, provide a warning about this phenomenon. The authors studied 19,229 adolescents…
REM Psychology: Solving Problems Through Lucid Dreaming
Have you ever dealt with fears, excess weight, complexes, or depression? These problems can be solved with the help of a psychologist, by way of a long and expensive process.…
Does Sleep Paralysis Affect Quality of Life?
The prevalence of sleep paralysis among the general population is estimated to range from 7.6% to 28%. However, there are high-risk groups—for example, students. In a survey conducted by scientists…
“In the space of a dream” Exhibition
From October 18, 2024, to August 24, 2025, Lyon, France, is hosting what may be the largest exhibition dedicated to dreams in history. Its contributors and scientific consultants—Perrine Ruby, Julia…
March 3, 2025 – 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…
How can you regain lucid dreams?
After an accident, Stephen Monk spent three weeks in a coma. Upon awakening, he lost the ability to remember his dreams, even though he had previously experienced regular and lucid…
Three Lucid Dreaming Techniques from Tibetan Dream Yoga
Tibetan Dream Yoga is one of the predecessors of modern lucid dreaming practices. Based on his studies of dream yoga manuals from the 14th to the 17th centuries in the…
Lucid Dreamers Learn to Juggle
Scientists from Switzerland, including regular researchers on the topic Emma Peters and Daniel Erlacher, as well as Kathrin Fischer, taught a group of lucid dreamers how to juggle in a…
Can DMT Cause a Near-Death Experience?
DMT is a psychedelic that induces hallucinations, and scientists and journalists often link its consumption to near-death experiences. Recently, researchers from the UK—Pascal Michael, David Luke, and Oliver Robinson—compared the…
Brain States in Regular and Lucid Dreaming
Which brain regions are active in lucid and regular dreams? This question was raised by a team of scientists from four countries under the direction of Xinlin Wang and including…
February 18 – Sylvan Muldoon’s Birthday
Sylvan Muldoon was an American esotericist in the first half of the twentieth century. He promoted the idea of astral projection and out-of-body experiences, linking them with dreams (though he…
February 16 – Charles Webster Leadbeater’s Birthday
Charles Webster Leadbeater was a mystic and one of the leaders of the Theosophical Society of the late nineteenth–early twentieth century. He was born in the UK and ordained as…
Does Imagination Create an Otherworldly Realm?
Iranian researchers Hamid Reza and Hamid Emami Far have presented a concept of near-death experience based on the perspective of Islamic philosophy. According to this concept, life-threatening situations cause people…
Do Neural Networks and Dreams Work the Same Way?
Chilean researcher Eduardo Traviezo-Triolo suggests that our dreams operate using a similar process to artificial intelligence. A neural network creates an image by taking a vast number of images, corrupts…
Ringing in the Ears in Lucid Dreams
Tinnitus is the perception of a ringing or buzzing in the ears without an objective external cause for the sound. It can also manifest as hissing or whistling, as the…
Do Children’s Fairy Tales Create Demons?
Why does one person see a demon upon experiencing sleep paralysis, while a second person sees a djinn and a third sees a witch? Researchers from Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia,…
Bridging the World of Dreams and Reality
Karen Konkoly, a dedicated researcher of lucid dreaming from the USA, recently defended her doctoral dissertation, in which she presents the results of four experiments relating to the possibility of…
Did Near-Death Experiences Influence Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?
African philosophers and religious scholars Stephen Hosea Vongdip (Nigeria) and Jock Matthew Agai (South Africa) have suggested that accounts from near-death experience survivors may have influenced Einstein’s thoughts on the…
Does Sleep Quality Affect Lucidity?
Researchers from Pakistan—Aarzu Zahid, Yumna Ali, and Syeda Farhana Kazmi—studied how sleep quality and demographic characteristics (gender, age, and income) affect anxiety and the practice of lucid dreaming. The authors…
