Woman Starts Writing Music and Memoirs after Being Abducted by Aliens
The life of American woman, Maria Cuccia, was quite ordinary until one night in 1992, when something extraordinary happened to her. She suddenly woke up around 3 a.m. and felt…
Do Thoughts Acquire a Clear Trajectory in Lucid Dreams?
Our ability to control our thoughts is limited. For most people, it is quite difficult to focus on a specific topic, erase a certain scene from their mind at will,…
What Properties of the Psyche Affect the Intensity of Dreams and Lucidity?
In a lucid dream (LD), the dreamer realizes that they are dreaming and can sometimes control the scenario and the space of the dream. Previously, researchers studying the biological and…
Do Lucid Dreamers Suffer from Nightmares More Often in Childhood?
The world of dreams is an object of fascination for scientists the world over. Recently, Indian researchers (Naik, Singh Rathore, and Sushmita) interviewed 60 students, assessing various aspects of dreams:…
Do Lucid Dreamers Have Better Control Over Reality?
Theoretically, a very attentive person with excellent mental abilities should have a higher chance of lucid dreaming (LD). After all, he/she will easily notice all the absurdities of an ordinary…
Does Belief in the Significance of Dreams Affect Lucidity?
There are a huge number of scientific papers on the topic of lucid dreams (LD). However, as noted by Palestinian authors, Firas H. Bazzari and Amjad H. Bazzari, the subject…
Doctor Strange Opens Portal to Parallel Worlds Through Dreams
Doctor Strange—a superhero in the Marvel universe—has returned to delight fans in the sequel titled Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Played by Benedict Cumberbatch, the protagonist, as usual,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
“Nancy Drew” Characters Master Lucid Dreaming to Kill a Demon
Nancy Drew is a young girl and an amateur detective, although she solves cases no worse than professionals. The character was created almost a century ago and has been subject…
Lucid Dreaming as a Way to Cope with the Pandemic
The coronavirus outbreak we have seen since the end of 2019 has affected people around the world. Italy was one of the first affected countries, where measures in the form…
The Lead Singer of Led Zeppelin Mastered Lucid Dreaming to Meet Dead People
British singer and songwriter Robert Plant is known primarily as the lead singer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. After its breakup in 1980, Plant embarked on a solo career,…
Stuck in Lucid Nightmares
Post-traumatic stress disorder contributes to nightmares and increased awareness during sleep in the absence of control over the situation. This conclusion was reached by researchers Katherine Miller, Richard Ross, and…
Onset of REM Sleep Phase as a Reaction to Danger
A group of scientists from Denmark and Belgium, in a recent study, proposed the hypothesis of thanatosis as the evolutionary basis of near-death experiences (NDE). Thanatosis is a simulation of…
