Lucid Dreams of “Flashback” Director
Another fantastic story on the topic of time travel – the film Flashback / The Education of Fredrick Fitzell – was released in June 2021. The main character, Fred Fitzell,…
Philosophical Explanation of the Reality Check Method
The reality check technique for inducing lucid dreams (LD) is one of the oldest. It was known to the Tibetan yogis. This method is simple to describe: during the day,…
Juice WRLD: “I Have These Lucid Dreams Where I Can’t Move a Thing”
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 Link between Narcolepsy, Pandemic, and Lucid Dreaming
Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep paralysis, and hallucinations. In addition, narcolepsy patients sometimes have difficulties identifying the boundary between dream and reality. But it’s…
Dreaming While Awake or Awake While Dreaming
Baland Jalal, a scientist at Harvard and Cambridge Universities, studies the topic of sleep paralysis. In a new article published in the journal Big Think, the researcher addressed many questions…
Dream Control: From Attention to Awareness
Traditionally, it was believed that humans had no control over the dream world. Psychoanalysis has expanded these ideas to an extent by suggesting that our subconscious mind actively constructs the…
How to Take a Photo of a Dream
Photographing a dream is a task that may seem strange at first. A drawing, a 3D visualization, or a feature film might be understandable. But a photo? Yet, this is…
Dream Pictures – The Result of Ordered Chaos
The Anima Mundi gallery of contemporary art in Cornwall, UK, is currently presenting the debut solo exhibition The Compass & The Rosary by artist and musician Luke Hannam. The show…
Future Development of the Dialogue between the Two Worlds
In February 2021, the journal Current Biology published an article by a group of scientists led by Karen Konkoly, in which the reasearchers demonstrated the ability to communicate with lucid…
Philosophers about LD: I Dream Therefore I Am
The Tibetan yogis were already familiar with the phenomenon of the phase states, by which we mean lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences. But this practice existed not only in the…
Gender Differences in Dreams
Most laboratory experiments, in general, are conducted on men. This is due to natural causes: women’s menstrual cycles and pregnancies complicate the process and increase costs. A group of scientists…
The Progress of Virtual Reality Influenced by Lucid Dreams
By entering the phase state, the term we use for lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences, practitioners pursue different goals. For some, those include health, getting information, meeting people who are…
Forty-six years since the phenomenon of LD was scientifically confirmed
In 1975, on April 12, the practice of lucid dreaming was first confirmed in the laboratory. English psychologist Dr Keith Hearne discovered a way to allow lucid dreamers to signal…
Vogue: Lucid Dreams Help During the Pandemic
In March 2020, when the pandemic broke out, people isolated in their homes began to report an increase in the number of anxiety dreams. According to neuroscientist Tara Swart in…
Lucid Dreaming Discussed in The New York Times
The New York Times is one of the world’s leading media outlets with a history dating back more than a century and a half ago. The newspaper has received more…
Lucid Dreaming as a Principle of Healthy Living
Every practitioner of the phase (the world of lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences) knows it to be a pleasant pastime where you can fly, communicate with people inaccessible in reality,…
How the Science of Lucid Dreams Is Developing. Interview with Benjamin Baird
Benjamin Baird is a researcher at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness in the School of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Specializing in cognitive psychology and neurobiology, he published…
What is the Difference between REM and Non-REM Dreams?
For a long time, it was generally accepted that dreams only occur during REM sleep. However, scientists then found out that we have different kinds of dreams throughout the night,…
Behind Her Eyes: New Series about Lucid Dreams and Astral Projection
In February, the new British TV series “Behind Her Eyes” was released on Netflix. The series gives the topic of astral travel an unexpected new treatment, based on the bestselling…
Scientists Talked to Sleepers in Lucid Dreams
In February 2021, the journal “Current Biology” published a study by an international group of scientists led by Karen Konkoly from Northwestern University in the United States, who managed to…
