People have believed in extraterrestrial civilizations for centuries. Books, films, and the media often describe flying saucers visiting our planet. Even Elvis Presley and John Lennon reported having come into…
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are still an under-researched field but evidence of such occurrences has been collected by scientists for some time now. One of the most extensive databases of such…
In the summer of 2021, the first permanent laboratory for the study of phase states (lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, out-of-body experience, etc.) will open in the south of Russia. The…
Russian researchers have developed a neuro-headset that allows you to record and recreate your own dreams. This was reported by the press service of the National Technology Initiative (NTI). The…
The reality check technique for inducing lucid dreams (LD) is one of the oldest. It was known to the Tibetan yogis. This method is simple to describe: during the day,…
Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep paralysis, and hallucinations. In addition, narcolepsy patients sometimes have difficulties identifying the boundary between dream and reality. But it’s…
Baland Jalal, a scientist at Harvard and Cambridge Universities, studies the topic of sleep paralysis. In a new article published in the journal Big Think, the researcher addressed many questions…
Traditionally, it was believed that humans had no control over the dream world. Psychoanalysis has expanded these ideas to an extent by suggesting that our subconscious mind actively constructs the…
Evidence of near-death experiences often includes stories about a tunnel with a light at the end, or meetings with deceased relatives. Sometimes (and this is a subject that has attracted…
The term “phase states” combines states such as lucid dreams, out-of-body and near-death experiences, sleep paralysis, and false awakenings. The connection of these phenomena have interested a psychotherapist from the…
In February 2021, the journal Current Biology published an article by a group of scientists led by Karen Konkoly, in which the reasearchers demonstrated the ability to communicate with lucid…
The Tibetan yogis were already familiar with the phenomenon of the phase states, by which we mean lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences. But this practice existed not only in the…
Most laboratory experiments, in general, are conducted on men. This is due to natural causes: women’s menstrual cycles and pregnancies complicate the process and increase costs. A group of scientists…
By entering the phase state, the term we use for lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences, practitioners pursue different goals. For some, those include health, getting information, meeting people who are…
It seems that the number of possible dreams should equal the number of people multiplied by the number of nights they’ve lived. However, Michael Schredl, editor of the International Journal…
Lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences belong to the same category of states of consciousness, which we call the phase. One of the most effective ways to achieve it is the…
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…
Sleep paralysis is a common problem among practitioners of lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences. Suddenly, upon returning from this world, which we also call the phase state, the person is…
Every practitioner of the phase (the world of lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences) knows it to be a pleasant pastime where you can fly, communicate with people inaccessible in reality,…
Benjamin Baird is a researcher at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness in the School of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Specializing in cognitive psychology and neurobiology, he published…
