Decentraland is a virtual 3D world platform where users can buy virtual land parcels (using the platform’s own cryptocurrency called MANA) and create and sell clothing and accessories for avatars.…
Simulators of phase states, such as lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences, have existed for several years now thanks to virtual reality technology. Since the sensations these states provide are often…
More and more people are becoming aware of phase states (lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, false awakenings, out-of-body and near-death experiences) and their influence on everyday life. Recently, several representatives of…
The Sydney Festival has been held annually since 1977; it is one of the most anticipated events in the art world. Hundreds musicians, dancers, actors, artists, and theater troupes make…
Barkley Valley, British Columbia, a province in Western Canada. You meet Thomas, who suffers from sleep paralysis (SP), and it’s up to you to find a cure for this “awful…
Amy’s brother is dead. She hasn’t seen him in years. Thomas has always been a bit of an eccentric, obsessed with lucid dreaming and the concept of other worlds. For…
The human race creates countless imaginary worlds through stories, songs, drawings, films, etc. Tihoni Brčić, a researcher at the University of Zagreb (Croatia), calls all this virtual reality, adding that,…
Afterdream is a 2D adventure game in the genre of psychological horror. The player plunges into a haunting lucid dream (LD); but, no matter how terrible the events, the main…
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…
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…
Lucid dreams (LD) are a great platform for creativity. For lucid dreamers, of course, this is nothing new. Writers have been known to source plots for novels from LD, poets…
JINJER is a Ukrainian metal band founded in 2009. The musicians write songs in English, actively tour abroad, and in 2016 signed a contract with the Austrian company Napalm Records.…
Mimi Choi from Vancouver is not just a famous makeup artist, but a painter who uses the human face as the canvas for her imagination, with a particular penchant for…
The metal band Reaping Asmodeia from Minneapolis (USA) was founded in 2013 by former members of With Dead Hands Rising, and released their debut album a year later. In July…
The use of lucid dreams (LD) for enhancing or studying creativity is, of course, not new. But the reports on this topic among scientists, at the 37th Annual Conference of…
The realizing that the surrounding space is a dream makes the dreamer enter a state in which almost everything is possible: solving difficult tasks, training in athletic skills, engaging in…
For centuries, both in literature and in painting, there have been many depictions of sleep paralysis, starting with the stories of Ernest Hemingway and ending with the painting The Nightmare…
The topic of phase states (lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, and sleep paralysis) is becoming increasingly popular in popular culture. Just recently, the Juice WRLD’s remix of “Lucid Dreams” that we…
Juice WRLD, rapper, singer, and songwriter from Chicago (real name Jarad Anthony Higgins), died in 2019 of an overdose, but his work continues to attract fans. In celebration of the…
The artist Hanna Newman uses her personal experience of sleep paralysis to express feelings through art. Her latest exhibition of sculptures, entitled Dawn, merges the physical with the psychological. She…
