How Science and Religion See Lucid Dreaming
Scientists only began studying lucid dreaming in the twentieth century, while world religions have emphasized the importance of this phenomenon in their doctrines for a much longer period of time.…
More Awakenings Lead to More Lucid Dreams
Experienced practitioners know that alternating periods of wakefulness and sleep can increase the possibility of inducing lucid dreams. Now, sleep fragmentation has become the subject of scientific study. In September…
Ringtones Can Be Used in Lucid Dreaming Induction
In recent years, lucid dreams have become a subject of increasing interest for the study of psychophysiological differences between dreaming and consciousness. To increase the frequency of lucid dreaming for…
Sleep Paralysis Can Be Pleasant
Sleep paralysis is defined as the inability to move due to muscle paralysis during REM sleep or dream phase. This is often an unpleasant experience that can have serious clinical…
Latin Americans Less Likely to Have Lucid Dreams
The concept of lucid dreaming varies greatly across cultures. Scientists from different countries around the world therefore periodically conduct studies with the purpose of identifying how the frequency of lucid…
Scientific Interest in Lucid Dreaming Grows by 5.6% Annually
It is clear to see that, in recent years, scientific interest in lucid dreaming has grown exponentially. To examine how research on this topic has evolved over the past 50…
Movements in Lucid Dreams Can Be Used to Assess Mental States
A new experiment, conducted by the Dream Research Institute (DRI) in London, in collaboration with Robert Waggoner, co-editor of the Lucid Dreaming Experience magazine, attempted to corroborate psychotherapist Nigel Hamilton’s…
Possibility of Controlling Computer from Lucid Dreams Proven Realistic
In March 2020, the International Journal of Dream Research published a study by Remington Mallett, a cognitive neuroscience graduate student at the University of Missouri who conducted an experiment among…
Scientists Assess Perspectives for Managing Dream Spaces
Up until recently, the possibility of managing dream spaces from the outside seemed like science fiction to most. Now the perspective of modeling of dream worlds is looking much closer…
Imaging Reality Stabilizes Lucid Dreams
What if lucid dreamers were to imagine that the space around them is the real physical world? Would this affect the lucidity of their sleep perception? These are the questions…
Lucid Dreams Shown to Improve Waking Mood
A research team at Swansea University in the UK, led by Abigail Stocks, came to this conclusion based on findings from a new study. The scientists asked 20 participants to…
Pain from Lucid Dreams Becomes Real in Wakefulness
Scientists publish results from first ever experiment, in which 151 volunteers were instructed to enter a lucid dream, and there to picture themselves experiencing pain in their arms, following which…
