Does Sleep Paralysis Affect Quality of Life?
The prevalence of sleep paralysis among the general population is estimated to range from 7.6% to 28%. However, there are high-risk groups—for example, students. In a survey conducted by scientists…
“In the space of a dream” Exhibition
From October 18, 2024, to August 24, 2025, Lyon, France, is hosting what may be the largest exhibition dedicated to dreams in history. Its contributors and scientific consultants—Perrine Ruby, Julia…
March 3, 2025 – Brian Sharpless’s Birthday
Brian Sharpless is a clinical psychologist and author from the US. His particular subject of interest is sleep disorders and sleep paralysis (SP). As the researcher says, SP is a…
Three Lucid Dreaming Techniques from Tibetan Dream Yoga
Tibetan Dream Yoga is one of the predecessors of modern lucid dreaming practices. Based on his studies of dream yoga manuals from the 14th to the 17th centuries in the…
Lucid Dreamers Learn to Juggle
Scientists from Switzerland, including regular researchers on the topic Emma Peters and Daniel Erlacher, as well as Kathrin Fischer, taught a group of lucid dreamers how to juggle in a…
Can DMT Cause a Near-Death Experience?
DMT is a psychedelic that induces hallucinations, and scientists and journalists often link its consumption to near-death experiences. Recently, researchers from the UK—Pascal Michael, David Luke, and Oliver Robinson—compared the…
Brain States in Regular and Lucid Dreaming
Which brain regions are active in lucid and regular dreams? This question was raised by a team of scientists from four countries under the direction of Xinlin Wang and including…
Does Imagination Create an Otherworldly Realm?
Iranian researchers Hamid Reza and Hamid Emami Far have presented a concept of near-death experience based on the perspective of Islamic philosophy. According to this concept, life-threatening situations cause people…
Do Neural Networks and Dreams Work the Same Way?
Chilean researcher Eduardo Traviezo-Triolo suggests that our dreams operate using a similar process to artificial intelligence. A neural network creates an image by taking a vast number of images, corrupts…
Ringing in the Ears in Lucid Dreams
Tinnitus is the perception of a ringing or buzzing in the ears without an objective external cause for the sound. It can also manifest as hissing or whistling, as the…
Do Children’s Fairy Tales Create Demons?
Why does one person see a demon upon experiencing sleep paralysis, while a second person sees a djinn and a third sees a witch? Researchers from Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia,…
Bridging the World of Dreams and Reality
Karen Konkoly, a dedicated researcher of lucid dreaming from the USA, recently defended her doctoral dissertation, in which she presents the results of four experiments relating to the possibility of…
Did Near-Death Experiences Influence Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?
African philosophers and religious scholars Stephen Hosea Vongdip (Nigeria) and Jock Matthew Agai (South Africa) have suggested that accounts from near-death experience survivors may have influenced Einstein’s thoughts on the…
Does Sleep Quality Affect Lucidity?
Researchers from Pakistan—Aarzu Zahid, Yumna Ali, and Syeda Farhana Kazmi—studied how sleep quality and demographic characteristics (gender, age, and income) affect anxiety and the practice of lucid dreaming. The authors…
Is Control More Important Than Lucidity?
An international group of scientists led by Sofia Tzioridou (the Netherlands) and with the participation of established researchers in the field of lucid dreaming, Tadas Stumbrys (Lithuania) and Martin Dresler…
Treating PTSD with Lucid Dreaming in Six Days
An international group of scientists are conducting an ongoing experiment on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through lucid dreaming. The authors include Garret Yount (USA) and Tadas Stumbrys…
Researchers Control a Remote Control Car via Lucid Dreaming
Researchers at REMspace have developed a cutting-edge device integrating sleep-stage trackers and electromyography (EMG) sensors to detect movements inside dreams. The EMG sensors were placed on the arms of the…
Does Carbon Dioxide Cause Near-Death Experiences?
Nigel Shaw, a researcher from New Zealand, has proposed that carbon dioxide is the cause of near-death experiences. When a patient has breathing or heart problems that put them in…
Do Satanic Qualities Cause Sleep Paralysis?
Indonesian researchers Robiatul Adawiyah and Zainal Mukhlis examined sleep paralysis from the perspective of Sufism. They studied the works of al-Ghazālī, an eminent jurist, mufti, philosopher, theologian, and mystic in…
January 16, 2025 – Mark Blagrove’s Birthday
Mark Blagrove is a professor of psychology and director of the Swansea University Sleep Laboratory in the UK. He is a consulting editor for the journal Dreaming and a former…
