Do Synesthetes Have Lucid Dreams More Often?
Synesthesia is a phenomenon of perception in which one sensory input provokes a response linked to another sense. A synesthete can see sounds, hear colors, or, for example, taste words.…
Transitioning from a Nightmare to a Lucid Dream with the Help of Emotions
There is a hypothesis that the frequency of one’s nightmares affects the number of lucid dreams (LD) they experience. Awareness caused by anxiety allows one to resist the threat in…
Experiment with Smartwatches to Stimulate Lucid Dreams
Scientists from Northwestern University (USA) who last year participated in a new sensational international study on communicating with dreamers in real time, launched a new experiment on March 31 on…
Near-Death Experience: an Evolutionary Approach vs. the Esoteric
In June 2021, a group of scientists from Denmark and Belgium published an article in the journal Brain Communications with a hypothesis about the biological origin of near-death experiences (NDE).…
Stephen LaBerge: 40 Hz Power Has Nothing to Do with Lucid Dreams
In 2009, a group of German researchers led by Ursula Voss recorded increased activity in the frontal zones at 40 Hz power during lucid dreams (LD). Based on these data,…
March 25 2022 – Tadas Stumbrys’s birthday
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…
Phase Research Center’s Publications under Sanctions
“Two of our studies were expected to be published in a few days in International Journal of Dream Research. But it won’t because we’re based in Russia. I hope the…
Are Nightmares Harbingers of Lucid Dreams?
The category of lucid dreams (LD) also includes lucid nightmares – dreams in which the person realizes that they are dreaming but cannot escape the frightening scenario. According to researchers…
Analytical Mindset as a Weapon Against Sleep Paralysis
Researchers from different countries have been studying the effects of stress and psychological disorders on sleep paralysis (SP) for some time. Recently, scientists from Ireland – Costello, Dennigan, and Egan…
The Best Ways to Get into a Lucid Dream
Achieving lucidity in a dream is a skill that can be learned, although possibly not every method will be suitable to everyone. Scientists from the US – Liu, Ding, and…
Healings, UFOs, and Communication with the Dead Discussed at Scientific Conference
At the end of 2021, the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) held a two-week online conference on lucid dreams (LD), combining the scientific and esoteric. On the…
Lucid Dreams of Philosophers: Dreamed Ego or Dreaming Ego?
Sometime in the early 1930s, the Franco-German philosopher Jean Héring was walking along with friends when he suddenly realized that “they” were all dreaming. He tried to convince his friends…
How to Create the Illusion of Leaving the Body
At the moment of out-of-body experience (OBE), the person feels like they are positioned above the physical body. This is usually accompanied by a feeling of floating or flying. Researchers…
Emotional Stress from Sleep Paralysis
Sleep paralysis (SP) is one of the phase states, which also include lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, etc. Sleep paralysis can be quite frightening: the sufferer finds themselves conscious but suddenly…
Are Near-Death Experiences the Result of Computations in Your Brain?
The human brain is a set of neurons. Our emotions, sense of self, free will – all these are nothing more than the collective behavior of billions of nerve cells.…
Studies of Lucid Dreams in 2021
Last year, more than two dozen studies on lucid dreaming (LD) were published in international scientific journals. The leaders in this respect were the USA and Russia, with five papers…
Is Sleep Paralysis a New Symptom of Coronavirus?
Among other things, COVID-19 has caused an increase in cases of sleep paralysis (SP). This (preliminary) conclusion was reached by medical experts Kat Lederle, Greg Potter, and Hussain Abdeh. According…
Alien Abduction: Deception, Psychosis, Hypnosis, Anesthesia, Natural Phenomena or Sleep Paralysis?
Thousands of people around the world are convinced they were abducted by aliens. Researchers from Spain – José Latorre and María Vellisca – decided to analyze these stories. As the…
Half a Million Dollars for Best Proof of the Afterlife
Billionaire Robert Bigelow founded the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) in June 2020, and announced a competition for the most convincing proof of the existence of life after death.…
How to Communicate with Lucid Dreamers Correctly?
In February 2021, even people far-removed from the subject of lucid dreams (LD) heard about it when an international group of scientists led by Karen Konkoly (USA) presented the results…
