Are Lucid Dreams Dangerous for Health?
Lucid dreaming (LD) is usually a positive and uplifting experience. In addition to adventures in a limitless world, lucid dreamers can heal from nightmares and insomnia, train in different skills,…
Why are Our Abilities Not Unlimited in Lucid Dreams?
Flying is a common hobby of lucid dreamers as there are no physical limitations in the space of phase states (i.e., lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, false awakenings, etc.). Yet, sometimes,…
September 2 2021 – Stephen LaBerge’s birthday
Stephen LaBerge is an American psychophysiologist, the founder and head of the Lucidity Institute, and the author of books that are widely read by lucid dreamers around the world. In…
August 31 2021 – Patricia Garfield’s birthday
Patricia Garfield, PhD in clinical psychology, is a world authority in the field of dreams. She has written more than ten books on the topic, the most famous among them…
Empty Lucid Dreams as Clear Mind
Vedic traditions and Tibetan Buddhism describe a special state of consciousness that occurs during deep sleep called sushupti. This is a kind of lucid dream (LD) without the dream as…
Out-of-Body Experience as a Result of a Traumatic Experience
An out-of-body experience (OBE) occurs when a person looks at the world from a point outside of his physical body. There is a lot of unproven information about this phenomenon.…
Is Gogol’s “The Portrait” the Earliest Non-Medical Description of Sleep Paralysis?
Many world-famous writers (Dickens, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Maupassant, etc.) had impressive powers of observation. Their works contained accurate descriptions of medical conditions long before they appeared in scientific treatises. A group…
August 16 2021 – Sergio Arthuro Mota-Rolim’s birthday
Sergio Arthuro Mota-Rolim is a research collaborator at the Brain Institute and the Sleep Laboratory of the Onofre Lopes Hospital at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil).…
August 14 2021 – Victor Spoormaker’s birthday
Victor Spoormaker is a Dutch researcher and author of books on the topic of sleep and dreams. He works at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (Germany) and…
Lucid Dreaming as a Way to Cope with the Pandemic
The coronavirus outbreak we have seen since the end of 2019 has affected people around the world. Italy was one of the first affected countries, where measures in the form…
Near-Death Experiences in Science and Religion
In ancient Greek philosophy, there was a concept of “revenants” – people who returned after death to become a kind of bridge between the living and the dead. Plato, Heraclitus,…
Stuck in Lucid Nightmares
Post-traumatic stress disorder contributes to nightmares and increased awareness during sleep in the absence of control over the situation. This conclusion was reached by researchers Katherine Miller, Richard Ross, and…
Losing the Self in a Near-Death Experience
Many people who have experienced a near-death experience (NDE) have reported a loss of their sense of a “distinct self” in the process. Among the features of NDEs, a sense…
Prose, Theater, and Painting in Lucid Dreams
The use of lucid dreams (LD) for enhancing or studying creativity is, of course, not new. But the reports on this topic among scientists, at the 37th Annual Conference of…
Out-of-Body Experiences and 360-Degree Vision
Out-of-body and near-death experiences are complex phenomena that have interested humanity since time immemorial. A group of researchers from Iran (Shakeri, Ebrahimi, Jahromi, Tabehi, and Naghi) tried to study these…
Onset of REM Sleep Phase as a Reaction to Danger
A group of scientists from Denmark and Belgium, in a recent study, proposed the hypothesis of thanatosis as the evolutionary basis of near-death experiences (NDE). Thanatosis is a simulation of…
Revolution in Psychology: Therapy in a Dream
Lucid dreaming (LD) provides direct access to the unconscious and gives one the opportunity to experiment with it. The fact that this property could revolutionize psychology has finally caught the…
Reaching a New Level of Creativity
The realizing that the surrounding space is a dream makes the dreamer enter a state in which almost everything is possible: solving difficult tasks, training in athletic skills, engaging in…
Galantamine for Increasing Frequency and Depth of Lucid Dreams
The topic of lucid dreams (LD) has confidently moved to the level of scientific discussion, becoming part of the 37th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of…
From Beetle to Human: the Evolution of Near-Death Experiences
A group of scientists from Denmark and Belgium (Peinkhofer, Martial, Cassol, Laureys and Kondziella) suggested that near-death experiences (NDEs) have a biological origin and are associated with a natural reaction…
