Xbox Releases Lucid Dreams Ad
In early December 2020, Xbox released a series of promotional videos called “Power Your Dreams”. The plot of the ads is based on the scientific achievements of lucid dreaming investigations…
Phase Day to Be Celebrated on December 21
December 21 is not yet on the list of official holidays, but we consider it the most important day of the year for all those who practice the various phase…
Astral Projection Through the Eyes of Scientists
Astral projection is an intentional out-of-body experience that you can control, according to Nathan Chandler, author of a December 2020 article on Howstuffworks.com. The term “phase states” has been used…
Is the Military Using Lucid Dreams?
In the past decade, articles have appeared in the media claiming that the US military has investigated the possibilities of lucid dreaming. The main reported use has been as an…
Scientists Introduce a New Scale for Assessing Near-Death Experiences
The first scale for evaluating near-death experiences – the so-called “Greyson scale” – was developed in 1983. To this day, it has been used to assess the psychometric properties of…
Lucid Dreams Break Political Boundaries
The wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in the UK pushed the British artist Potent Whisper to create the project “Lucid Lovers”. This is an audio novel about a couple torn apart…
Sleep Paralysis Is Still Considered a “Spiritual Punishment” in Turkey
Recently, we talked about how culture and mythology influence the perception of sleep paralysis in different countries, often leading to interpretations of the phenomenon as a demonic presence. In March…
Are Lucid Dreams Dangerous for the Brain?
With its increasing popularity among practitioners, the phenomenon of lucid dreaming is also finding itself under growing criticism on the part of researchers. Some scientists go so far as to…
Near-Death Experiences Are More Vivid Than Ordinary Memories
Memories of near-death experiences (NDE) are often presented as “more real” than memories of other real or imagined events, scientists led by Helena Cassol from the University of Liege, Belgium…
How are Near-Death Experiences and Out-of-Body Travels Related?
In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody first mentioned the term “near-death experiences” in publishing reports of 150 patients emerging from comas. In an article published in March 2020, a team of…
Lucid Dreams Transform Practitioners’ Brains
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,…
Happy Birthday to Project Elijah
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…
Are Lucid Dreams Good for Us?
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…
How Your Culture Affects Perception of Sleep Paralysis
Those who are unfamiliar with the causes of sleep paralysis (muscle atrophy on the verge of sleep) often describe this phenomenon as a “paranormal” experience. Sleep paralysis is experienced by…
The Color Green in a Dream Enhances Creativity
Creativity is known to play a prominent role in lucid dreaming. For example, some scientists are inclined to hypothesize that a penchant for fantasy enhances the bizarreness and vividness of…
What is More Bizarre: Lucid Dreams or Non-Lucid Dreams?
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,…
Travel Agency Offers Dream Journey During COVID-19 Quarantine
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…
Latin Americans Less Likely to Have Lucid Dreams
The concept of lucid dreaming varies greatly across cultures. Scientists from different countries around the world therefore periodically conduct studies with the purpose of identifying how the frequency of lucid…
Scientific Interest in Lucid Dreaming Grows by 5.6% Annually
It is clear to see that, in recent years, scientific interest in lucid dreaming has grown exponentially. To examine how research on this topic has evolved over the past 50…
