An international group of medical scientists led by Mahmoud Tarek Hefnawy has published an open letter in a scientific journal calling for researchers to address the issue of sleep paralysis.…
An international group of scientists led by Mahmoud Hefnawy reviewed existing studies on sleep paralysis. A total of 76 papers from 25 countries were analyzed, covering over 26,000 patients. The…
In lucid dreaming, sensations can be more realistic than in waking life. However, they are sometimes vague, which is a problem. Researchers from REMspace (Andrey Shashkov, Michael Raduga, Anna Nav,…
German scientists, under the direction of Beate Klofat, conducted an experiment using the classic wake-up-back-to-bed (WBTB) technique, but they did not inform the participants of the true goals of the…
In 2020, a group of researchers led by Michelle Carr conducted an experiment in which participants were to achieve lucid dreaming using cognitive training (self-suggestion techniques) and external stimulation (cueing…
In the fall of 2023, the ambitious startup Prophetic promised to create a device for inducing lucid dreams that would operate based on artificial intelligence similar to ChatGPT. As reported…
Would you like to influence the real world while in a lucid dream? While dreaming, would you like to compose a piece of music or hold a conversation with Einstein?…
The near-death experience is often a positive phase state involving, for example, seeing a paradise garden, having encounters with deceased loved ones and angels, flying through a tunnel towards light,…
The idea of shared dreaming is popular among lucid dreamers. A group of authors led by Denis Banchenko hypothesized that there is a biological environment, a certain field inside which…
The near-death experience is one of the most challenging phase states to study. The vast majority of research consists of surveys of survivors, and scientists are forced to draw conclusions…
In 2022, American researcher Garret Yount conducted an ambitious six-day course on healing in lucid dreams for post-traumatic stress disorder. Later, as part of a group of scientists from the…
An international group of researchers from China, Belgium, and Canada, led by Yan Li, translated the famous Greyson near-death experience scale into Chinese. They noted that interest in this phenomenon…
Sexual hallucinations can include images, sensations of touch, erotic dialogue, and even orgasms. However, these experiences are not as pleasant as one might think. Most of them are frightening and…
Researchers from the Philippines and the USA, led by John Balch, decided to investigate the link between dissociative experiences and sleep disturbances. Dissociation involves emotional detachment as well as a…
A permanent researcher of lucid dreaming from Germany, Michael Schredl, studied the dream diary of a practitioner who had been documenting his dreams for 32 years. The scientist admits that…
Before and after sleep, a person may experience hypnagogic (upon falling asleep) or hypnopompic (upon awakening) hallucinations. However, as claimed by medical professional and researcher from Spain, Guglielmo Foffani, labeling…
Researchers from Pakistan, Ayesha Zahid Khana and Ayesha Umar, conducted a survey to understand what factors (e.g., personality traits or sleep habits) contribute to the practice of lucid dreaming. The…
German scientists Victoria Amo, Nikolai Godt, Johannes Leugering, and the perpetual researcher on this topic, Kristoffer Appel, conducted another experiment on communicating with lucid dreamers in real-time. However, the participants…
In 2022, interest in the topic of lucid dreaming increased sharply: the number of scientific articles for that year doubled compared to 2021. In 2023, this trend continued, providing us…
Mark Blagrove is a professor of psychology and director of the Swansea University Sleep Laboratory in the UK. He is a consulting editor for the journal Dreaming and a former…
