Do Odors Induce Lucid Dreams?
Scientists have been studying the effects of fragrances on humans for a long time. Odors can improve one’s well-being, change one’s mood, and even help with depression. Certain odors have…
Do Lucid Dreams Lead to Personal Growth?
It is generally acknowledged that lucid dreaming facilitates personal growth, including the development of creativity, mindfulness, and self-esteem. However, is that really the case? The answer to this question can…
Spinning to Stabilize Lucid Dreams
The spinning technique is often used by practitioners to stabilize phase states such as lucid dreams. As Stephen LaBerge, one of the pioneers of the scientific study of lucid dreaming,…
Perception of Time in Out-of-Body Experiences
How does our time perception change during out-of-body experiences? Scientists from the University of Clermont-Auvergne in France have conducted a fascinating experiment that recreated the illusion of the body using…
False Awakenings Lead to Lucid Dreams
Researchers have repeatedly hypothesized that false awakenings accompany lucid dreams. However, up until recently, there was no scientific evidence to support this hypothesis. In 2019, the journal Dreaming published an…
Scientists Study Levels of Dream Lucidity
How to distinguish a lucid dream from a non-lucid dream? After all, you can become aware of yourself inside a dream with varying levels of lucidity. Scientists led by Remington…
Narcoleptics Have High Creativity Quotient
Type 1 narcolepsy (NT1) is a chronic sleep disorder characterized by daytime drowsiness with a rapid transition to REM sleep. Sufferers of NT1 are more likely than others to experience…
Is VR Effective in Teaching Lucid Dreaming?
Dutch scientists from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior in Nijmegen have published a new study on lucid dream induction training using virtual reality (VR). The results sparked…
Is Stress a Cause of Sleep Paralysis?
Isolated sleep paralysis (not associated with a sleep disorder such as narcolepsy) occurs at least once in up to 40% of people. Relapses of this episode are less common and…
Is the Brain Dreaming During Sleep Paralysis?
Scientists studying sleep disorders at the Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital in Paris have published a new study on sleep paralysis using electroencephalogram (EEG) data. In EEG analysis, special frequency ranges are…
Cognitive Trainings Lead to Lucid Dreams
Cognitive training is used to develop the processes of awareness, attention, and memory. They have also been used successfully in the practice of lucid dreaming, when combined with other techniques.…
Lucid Dreams Provide a Feeling of Freshness in the Morning
We recently talked about whether lucid dreaming is dangerous for the brain. Some researchers believe that awareness during sleep, due to increased brain activity, may interfere with the restorative function…
Astral Projection Through the Eyes of Scientists
Astral projection is an intentional out-of-body experience that you can control, according to Nathan Chandler, author of a December 2020 article on Howstuffworks.com. The term “phase states” has been used…
Scientists Introduce a New Scale for Assessing Near-Death Experiences
The first scale for evaluating near-death experiences – the so-called “Greyson scale” – was developed in 1983. To this day, it has been used to assess the psychometric properties of…
Lucid Dreams Useful in Treating Nightmares
The practice of lucid dreaming is often used in nightmare therapy. The progress made in this area over the past few years is described in an article by Brazilian scientists…
Are Lucid Dreams Dangerous for the Brain?
With its increasing popularity among practitioners, the phenomenon of lucid dreaming is also finding itself under growing criticism on the part of researchers. Some scientists go so far as to…
Near-Death Experiences Are More Vivid Than Ordinary Memories
Memories of near-death experiences (NDE) are often presented as “more real” than memories of other real or imagined events, scientists led by Helena Cassol from the University of Liege, Belgium…
Can Lucid Dreams Cure Even Severe Nightmares?
Lucid dreaming has already been shown as effective in treating ordinary nightmares. A new study published in August 2020 in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, however, has attempted to assess…
Is It Possible to Share Dreams?
In November 2020, the Australian portal Gizmodo published an article by author Daniel Kolitz, in which scientists answered a question sent in by readers about whether or not it is…
High Level of Control During Lucid Dreaming Captures Scientists’ Attention
In March 2020, the journal Imagination, Cognition and Personality published a study by Alexandre Lemyr et al. of Laval University, Canada, which describes 5 main strategies for controlling lucid dreaming.…
