Interview with a Practitioner: Anna “Nav” Popenko
Anna “Nav” Popenko is a PhD in Biology, psychologist, creator of her own Oneiroschool, and a lucid dreamer with 10 years of experience, including five years of active practice. She…
Anna “Nav” Popenko is a PhD in Biology, psychologist, creator of her own Oneiroschool, and a lucid dreamer with 10 years of experience, including five years of active practice. She…
According to researchers Clarita Bonamino (Australia) and Emma Peters (Switzerland), realizing that you are dreaming is only the first step in lucid dreaming. The ability to change the plot and…
Alexander Petkov (Hischeron), a lucid dreaming practitioner with nine years of experience, regularly participates in REMspace experiments. He achieves lucidity almost daily, up to 28 nights per month. – What…
The Good Night (2007) isn’t just a film about lucid dreams—it’s a dark tale of escaping reality. Mired in routine and dissatisfaction, Gary finds solace in his dreams, where his…
Andrey Shashkov, a lucid dreaming researcher at REMspace, has been practicing lucid dreaming for 13 years. In addition to having spontaneous moments of lucidity in dreams, he deliberately enters lucid…
Jack London’s The Star Rover isn’t just an adventure novel; it’s an ode to the freedom of consciousness. After being sentenced to solitary confinement and a straitjacket, Darrell Standing makes…
Mindfulness practice typically involves performing concentration exercises—that is, a person should be “here and now” and observe their thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the surrounding world. It is logical to…
The core skill of a successful lucid dreamer isn’t flying in dreams—it’s having that “Eureka!” moment when you suddenly realize everything around you is just a game being played by…
A group of villains has seized power and are controlling people’s dreams using psychotropic substances and hypnosis. Anyone who opposes them begins to have nightmares, and the wounds inflicted on…
After an accident, Stephen Monk spent three weeks in a coma. Upon awakening, he lost the ability to remember his dreams, even though he had previously experienced regular and lucid…
Italian researchers Patrizio Tressoldi and Luciano Pederzoli conducted an experiment on out-of-body experiences using hypnosis. They recruited five volunteers with varying levels of prior knowledge about this phenomenon and prepared…
Australian philosopher David Leong argues that lucid dreaming—a state that represents a unique combination of theta, beta, and gamma brainwave activity—can be beneficial for generating business ideas and solutions. Theta…
Leading lucid dreaming researchers from Canada (Mallett, Nielsen) and the US (Konkoly, Carr, Paller) analyzed the main trends in the field. The authors have repeatedly published the results of groundbreaking…
We naturally experience paralysis every night when we sleep. This is necessary to prevent the sleeper from acting out their dreams, which could lead them to harm to themselves and…
Scientists are continually searching for the perfect lucid dreaming technique. A recent experiment was conducted by authors from the USA and Canada, led by Norah Wolk and including renowned researchers…
Lego is not just a toy company but also a producer of animated films. One of its animated series Lego DREAMZzz takes place in a world of dreams. Characters can…
Scientists from Switzerland, led by Emma Peters and with the participation of Daniel Erlacher, a constant researcher in the field of lucid dreaming, conducted another experiment in search of the…
Imagine this: doctors connect equipment to a person who is in a coma or has just died. Then, using MRI, EEG, and neural networks, they translate that person’s brain activity…
Around 10-12% of patients who have experienced cardiac arrest report having near-death experiences. But what about the rest? Could they have near-death experiences, too, and simply not remember them? This…
Researchers from Australia, led by Ema Demšar and involving lucid dreaming long-term researcher Martin Dresler, conducted an experiment to determine the ideal lucid dreaming technique. As the authors explain, the…