“Doppelganger” and Out-of-Body Experiences
During an out-of-body experience, people feel a sensation of leaving their own physical body and often see themself floating above it. However, sometimes the experiencer sees their own body –…
Is the Right Brain Hemisphere Responsible for Hallucinations During Sleep Paralysis?
Sleep paralysis is often accompanied by terrible hallucinations, the nature of which is not yet fully understood. Why do people most often see faceless shadows, regardless of the cultural myths…
Scientists Talked to Sleepers in Lucid Dreams
In February 2021, the journal “Current Biology” published a study by an international group of scientists led by Karen Konkoly from Northwestern University in the United States, who managed to…
Is Science Using the Right Approach to Study Near-Death Experiences?
Does the study of clinical death fulfill the scientific criteria? Is there such a phenomenon as near-death experiences at all, and how can it be scientifically proven? Such questions are…
Climate Change Affects Dreams
The hypothesis of dream continuity states that our dreams are an extension of our waking life. Dreams can reflect our real-life experiences and problems and contain representations of events that…
What Part of the Brain Induces Out-of-Body Experiences?
Sometimes we think we know everything about a phenomenon, and then a discovery comes around that turns everything upside down. A person having an out-of-body experience can feel like they…
Can Autistic People Have Out-of-Body Experiences?
Autism is considered a personality disorder that entails difficulties with social interaction as well as self-perception. British scientists from the Anglia Ruskin University, led by Cari-lène Mul, conducted an experiment…
What is REM Sleep?
REM means “rapid eye movement.” This physical feature is considered decisive in determining the onset of the REM sleep phase; however, the term describes several phenomena at once: the state…
Lexical Analysis of Near-Death Experiences
While science and religion argue about what near-death experiences (NDEs) are, even the term itself and the identification of those who survived it are yet to be fully defined. Descriptions…
Are Gamers More Likely to Have Lucid Dreams?
Can video games affect lucid dreaming frequency? This correlation was first discovered by researcher Jayne Gackenbach in 2006. When she interviewed university students who were more likely to have lucid…
How Men and Women Experience Sleep Paralysis
Various aspects of sleep paralysis are regularly discussed in studies conducted in different countries, as well as on different age groups. Another such study, published in 2020 with a sample…
Do Lucid Dreams Affect Attention?
Mindfulness is directly related to the function of attention. This property has been studied in several scientific experiments, including a study conducted in 2010 to assess the frequency of lucid…
Do Out-of-Body Experiences Improve Memory?
It is generally accepted that emotions strongly affect our memory. On the other hand, emotions represent a sense of oneself in time and space within one’s own body. What effect…
Indirect Method Study Published in a Scientific Journal
The indirect phase method, that is, entering a lucid dream or out-of-body experience immediately upon awakening and without losing consciousness, is one of the most effective phase induction techniques. At…
Is It Possible to Recreate a Near-Death Experience Under Hypnosis?
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are of great interest to science, however, the difficulty in studying them lies in the fact that they are based on subjective memories. To overcome this issue,…
Is Sleep Paralysis Possible in the Elderly?
It is believed that sleep paralysis is extremely rare in old age. Most studies attribute this phenomenon to a younger age group, especially college students and teens. However, there is…
How Lucid Dreams Affect Mental and Physical Health
Despite the fears of some scientists about the possible negative impact of lucid dreaming on people’s physical and mental health, actual practitioners are increasingly sharing amazing stories of how their…
Scientists Study How the Brain Paralyzes Our Bodies When Dreaming
Shuntaro Uchida et al. of the University of Tsukuba in Japan have published a new study on the neurons in the medulla that keep our bodies motionless during REM sleep.…
Scientists Assess Sleep Fragmentation Technique
The wake-up-back-to-bed technique (WBTB) essentially consists of alternating intervals of wakefulness and sleep. Practitioners set an alarm to wake them up a certain while after the first phase of sleep,…
Meditation Influences Phase States
Scientists have repeatedly expressed the opinion that the practice of meditation has a positive effect on the frequency of lucid dreaming. Indeed, training mindfulness while awake increases the degree of…
