American researchers Michael Spano and Edward Pace-Schott investigated how one’s lifestyle affects sleep paralysis. Like many authors, they chose students (158 people) as respondents and conducted a survey on sleep…
American researchers Price, Haque, Garza, and Westerberg hypothesized that lucid dreams are more connected to reality and reflect waking life experiences due to the individual’s ability to control the narrative.…
An international group of researchers led by Mahmoud Tarek Hefnawy collected articles on sleep paralysis from leading scientific databases (Pubmed, Scopus, and WoS). The authors did not conduct their own…
A group of American medical professionals led by George Mashour has published a review of the current state of research on near-death experiences. The authors highlight the significant progress made…
Scientists from five countries, led by Çağatay Demirel and involving Kristoffer Appel, Sérgio Mota-Rolim, and Martin Dresler—regular researchers on lucid dreaming topics—conducted an experiment. They recruited 29 lucid dreamers who…
Athlete training in lucid dreams has piqued researchers’ interest numerous times. However, a group of scientists from ten different countries, led by Heba Taher, has now set out to explore…
People spend years learning to reproduce beautiful music. But what are we training: our brains or our bodies? To answer this question, researchers from REMspace (Anna Nav, Michael Raduga, Zhanna…
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…
People spend one-third of their lives sleeping. One way to make good use of this time could be to carry out daily tasks while asleep. Researchers at REMspace Michael Raduga,…
Tadas Stumbrys is a psychologist, lecturer and active researcher of lucid dreams (LD) from Lithuania. He has been working on this topic since 2008, when he first experienced a lucid…
Many stories of alien abductions are related to sexual activities or quasi-sexual actions. Approximately every second “abducted” individual claims to have been lying naked on a table. Why are aliens…
In Persian medicine, sleep paralysis is called “kabus” and is described as a condition where a person feels heaviness on their chest and cannot move or speak during sleep. A…
The Nightmare (1781), a painting by Swiss-English artist Henry Füssli, remains a classic depiction of sleep paralysis. A young woman lying on the bed is unable to move. An incubus…
Scientists from the Netherlands, Paul Zerr and Nico Adelhöfer, along with Martin Dresler, a regular researcher of lucid dreaming, have published a review of the current state of science in…
Japanese scientist Kazuhiko Fukuda expressed doubts that studies on lucid dreaming can be objective because this phenomenon is difficult to induce in a laboratory, and authors’ conclusions are often based…
The prevalence of sleep paralysis is usually higher among psychiatric patients than among the general population. However, even completely healthy individuals experience such episodes. Researchers Nabeela Raza (Pakistan) and Anum…
Africa is filled with calamities: demonstrations and killings, diseases, rape, robberies, and road accidents. As noted by South African researcher Orunsolu Elizabeth Olufunmilayo, there are plenty of opportunities to study…
Czech researchers led by Filip Černý studied EEG data of people suffering from sleep paralysis. The study involved 17 patients who reported regular episodes and 17 individuals who served as…
Under the leadership of Emma Peters, scientists from Switzerland and the Netherlands conducted an experiment in order to find a reliable method of inducing lucid dreams. The group also included…
Researchers have studied the possibility of sports training in lucid dreaming. Clarita Bonamino from Australia focused on adolescents and young people aged 14 to 21. They were classified as athletes…
