Does Meditation Cure Sleep Paralysis?
The duration of sleep paralysis (muscle atrophy when waking up or falling asleep) can range from a few seconds to 20 minutes. Often, this state is also accompanied by hallucinations.…
How are Near-Death Experiences and Out-of-Body Travels Related?
In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody first mentioned the term “near-death experiences” in publishing reports of 150 patients emerging from comas. In an article published in March 2020, a team of…
Lucid Dreams Transform Practitioners’ Brains
The German gestalt psychologist Paul Toley first described the criteria distinguishing lucid dreams from ordinary dreams in 1981. These included awareness of spatial orientation, awareness of the capacity of choice,…
Happy Birthday to Project Elijah
On November 29, 2018, the Phase Research Center launched Project Elijah – the world’s first in-line resource for phase state research, including lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences. About two dozen…
Does Electrical Stimulation Induce Lucid Dreams?
In 2014, a sensational study was published by German scientists led by Ursula Voss. It claimed to have successfully induced lucid dreaming using transcranial AC stimulation. Electrical stimulation using a…
VR Technologies Stimulate Flight in Dreams
Flying in a dream is both a pleasure and an unforgettable experience. Such dreams, as a rule, are rare and few people can repeat them consciously. However, a team of…
COVID-19 Quarantine Increased Incidence of Sleep Paralysis in Narcoleptics
In October 2020 the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine published a study in which Brazilian scientists from the Federal University of São Paulo assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Out-of-Body Experiences: Fear or Revelation?
How does an out-of-body experience (OBE) affect the people who have had it? Dutch scientist Elpine M. de Boer tried to answer this question in a study published in October…
Does Ketamine Reveal the Nature of Out-of-Body Experience?
Ketamine is a wide spectrum anesthetic, which in recent years has become an illegal substance in many countries due to drug abuse. However, while some scientists and medical professionals debate…
What Can Near-Death Experiences Tell Us About the Brain?
A man named Kevin nearly died in a motorcycle accident that left him unconscious. As he approached the point of collision, his life flashed before his eyes. After the incident,…
Insufficient or Excessive Sleep Leads to Sleep Paralysis and Lucid Dreams
Scientists have found a correlation between sleep duration and lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, and out-of-body experiences (OBE). People who sleep more than 9 hours a day are more at risk…
Lack of Reality Checks Leads to “Paranormal Activity”
Is the frequency of lucid dreams, nightmares, and sleep paralysis related to deficiencies in reality testing and the dreamer’s paranormal experiences or beliefs? Scientists from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, tried…
Eye Movement as a Method of Lucid Dreams Confirmation Under Scrutiny
The scientific method of registration of lucid dreams – based on instructing dreamers to move their eyes in a dream at the moment of awareness – was first applied in…
Most Comprehensive Study on Lucid Dreaming Techniques Published
In July 2020, the scientific journal Frontiers in Psychology published an article authored by Denholm J. Aspy from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in which the scientist summarizes many years…
Scientists Attempt to Recreate Real World Scenes in Lucid Dreams
Lucid dreaming is often associated with control over the plot of dreams, although the limitations of this control are not yet fully understood. In a new study, scientist Remington Mallett,…
New Dream Control Device Released
It is not a secret that many lucid dream practitioners know how to control the content of their dreams. This phenomenon has also aroused great interest among developers and engineers.…
Four Main Triggers for Lucid Dreaming
Despite the fact that lucid dreaming is experienced spontaneously by about 50% of the general population, scientists still cannot explain the mechanisms by which a person is able to realize…
Musical Stimulation Found Ineffective for Lucid Dreams
Despite the fact that an increasing number of lucid dream induction techniques are being tested every year, none of them have been able to guarantee a one hundred percent result…
Brain Rhythms Leading to Out-of-Body Experience Discovered
Dissociative states are usually described as a feeling of disconnection from reality or an out-of-body experience. Most often, these altered states of consciousness are reported by people who suffer from…
Lucid Nightmares Require Special Study
Lucid nightmares are defined as dreams with strong negative emotions, in which a dreamer is aware that he/she is dreaming but cannot change the terrifying events unfolding in the dream…
