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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Changing the Plot of a Dream to Gain Inner Strength
Lucid dreams (LD) have long been studied by psychologists as a cure for nightmares. A recent study by Austrian scientists Holzinger, Nierwetberg, and Klösch implemented a post-traumatic stress disorder treatment…
Lucid Dreams as a Cure for Depression
The healing possibilities of lucid dreaming (LD) have been known to practitioners for a long time. It is enough to create a magic pill inside the dream for a specific…
What is the Probability That You Will Experience Sleep Paralysis?
Do you suffer from insomnia, depression, or nightmares, have post-traumatic or other stress disorders, and sleep irregular hours? If you also happen to be a woman, congratulations, you have the…
Are Lucid Dreams Associated with Obesity and Low Immunity?
Did you know that both insufficient and excess sleep significantly reduce immunity and brain activity, lower quality of life, and lead to extra weight? Hundreds of studies indicate that healthy…
Sleep Paralysis as a Reaction to Stress: Risk Groups
Sleep paralysis (SP), along with lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences, is one of the phase states, one that can sometimes be an unpleasant experience. It occurs when falling asleep or…
Lucid Dreaming Instead of Anesthesia: Pick a Nice Dream
Practitioners, scientists, researchers, and philosophers have long engaged with the topic of lucid dreams (LD). But this area has recently become of interest in clinical medicine: William Camann, an anesthesiologist…
Lucid Dreams as a Way to Cope with Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is often mistaken for a mental disorder. This disease is accompanied by increased daytime drowsiness, sleep paralysis, and hallucinations. Researchers from Spain—Dresda E. Méndez de la Brena and Cornelia…
Are Lucid Dreams Dangerous for Health?
Lucid dreaming (LD) is usually a positive and uplifting experience. In addition to adventures in a limitless world, lucid dreamers can heal from nightmares and insomnia, train in different skills,…
Out-of-Body Experience as a Result of a Traumatic Experience
An out-of-body experience (OBE) occurs when a person looks at the world from a point outside of his physical body. There is a lot of unproven information about this phenomenon.…
Revolution in Psychology: Therapy in a Dream
Lucid dreaming (LD) provides direct access to the unconscious and gives one the opportunity to experiment with it. The fact that this property could revolutionize psychology has finally caught the…
