In March 2020, the journal Imagination, Cognition and Personality published a study by Alexandre Lemyr et al. of Laval University, Canada, which describes 5 main strategies for controlling lucid dreaming.…
The German gestalt psychologist Paul Toley first described the criteria distinguishing lucid dreams from ordinary dreams in 1981. These included awareness of spatial orientation, awareness of the capacity of choice,…
On November 29, 2018, the Phase Research Center launched Project Elijah – the world’s first in-line resource for phase state research, including lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences. About two dozen…
Nirit Soffer-Dudek from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, asks this question in the article published in the Frontiers in Neuroscience journal. According to the researcher, techniques of deliberate…
Men’s Health journalist, Mark Hay, shared his experience in dealing with sleep paralysis, which may be of interest to many lucid dreaming practitioners. After all, his main “cure” was based…
In 2014, a sensational study was published by German scientists led by Ursula Voss. It claimed to have successfully induced lucid dreaming using transcranial AC stimulation. Electrical stimulation using a…
Flying in a dream is both a pleasure and an unforgettable experience. Such dreams, as a rule, are rare and few people can repeat them consciously. However, a team of…
Scientists have found a correlation between sleep duration and lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, and out-of-body experiences (OBE). People who sleep more than 9 hours a day are more at risk…
Is the frequency of lucid dreams, nightmares, and sleep paralysis related to deficiencies in reality testing and the dreamer’s paranormal experiences or beliefs? Scientists from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, tried…
The scientific method of registration of lucid dreams – based on instructing dreamers to move their eyes in a dream at the moment of awareness – was first applied in…
Not much research on lucid dreaming has come out of Asia so far. At the same time, the only study conducted in China in 2008 shocked scientists from other countries,…
At a time when international air travel seems like a dream to many people, lucid dreams are a way to travel without any regard for physical or legal limitations. For…
In July 2020, the scientific journal Frontiers in Psychology published an article authored by Denholm J. Aspy from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in which the scientist summarizes many years…
Lucid dreaming is often associated with control over the plot of dreams, although the limitations of this control are not yet fully understood. In a new study, scientist Remington Mallett,…
It is not a secret that many lucid dream practitioners know how to control the content of their dreams. This phenomenon has also aroused great interest among developers and engineers.…
Despite the fact that lucid dreaming is experienced spontaneously by about 50% of the general population, scientists still cannot explain the mechanisms by which a person is able to realize…
Many famous writers from different eras have used dream-motifs in their works. However, the number of dream scientists who have published books of fiction is quite small. “The Dreamkeepers: An…
Despite the fact that an increasing number of lucid dream induction techniques are being tested every year, none of them have been able to guarantee a one hundred percent result…
Lucid nightmares are defined as dreams with strong negative emotions, in which a dreamer is aware that he/she is dreaming but cannot change the terrifying events unfolding in the dream…
Scientists only began studying lucid dreaming in the twentieth century, while world religions have emphasized the importance of this phenomenon in their doctrines for a much longer period of time.…
