Descriptions of near-death experiences typically include flying through a tunnel towards a light, encountering deceased friends or relatives, contacting angels or deities, engaging in telepathic communication, and reviewing one’s life,…
According to attachment theory, we all develop one of three attachment strategies from childhood, depending on our relationships with our parents. These are secure (healthy relationships), anxious (a person constantly…
Interest in phase states (lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences) is steadily growing. In 2024 alone, 60 scientific papers on the topic were published—25% more than in 2023. The main area…
Sleep paralysis is often accompanied by hallucinations, and though it can be a frightening experience, this is not always the case. Israeli researcher Yair Lavi surveyed 216 people to find…
Indian doctors Dattaprasad Sawant and Neha Kamble have presented a treatment plan for sleep paralysis. Although they remind us that it is a harmless condition, it can cause fear. A…
“Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people, fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake. A spirit glided past my face, and…
Canadian researcher Gratiana Chen conducted an experiment in which she stimulated out-of-body experiences in 70 university students using virtual reality. The participants were shown virtual reality videos that created the…
Italian researchers Patrizio Tressoldi and Luciano Pederzoli conducted an experiment on out-of-body experiences using hypnosis. They recruited five volunteers with varying levels of prior knowledge about this phenomenon and prepared…
Lynne Levitan is a doctor of medicine, anesthesiologist, lucid dreamer, and wife of Stephen LaBerge (one of the most prominent researchers on the subject of lucid dreams), his colleague at…
Lucid dreaming gives people a safe environment for addressing psychological issues. Canadian researcher Bei Linda Tang, whose work focuses on both ordinary dreams and controlled dreams, suggests expanding these methods.…
Michelle Carr has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science and works as a researcher at the University of Rochester Sleep and Neurophysiology Laboratory (UK). She actively studies nightmares, sleep paralysis, and…
We spend a third of our lives asleep, and some people can experience a full life only in their dreams. This prompted Ukrainian educators Voznyuk and Dubasenyuk to propose using…
Encounters with spiritual beings are common in near-death experiences. However, a person can see God, angels, or the afterlife according to their own religion and cultural traditions. This is evidenced…
Celia Green is a researcher of lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences from the UK and one of the pioneers in the field. Interestingly, on her official website, she is listed…
Australian philosopher David Leong argues that lucid dreaming—a state that represents a unique combination of theta, beta, and gamma brainwave activity—can be beneficial for generating business ideas and solutions. Theta…
Sleep restores our bodies and minds, both physically and psychologically. Indian researcher Ayush Srivastava proposed three methods to enhance this restorative process, primarily focusing on resolving psychological issues. The author…
There’s a theory that dreaming is essentially imagining and visualizing. After all, a dream is a fabricated world we create ourselves. But what about lucid dreaming, where a person understands…
How are lucid dreams related to psychological health? Researchers from the US and Canada, led by leading lucid dreaming researcher Michelle Carr, set out to find out. They surveyed 1332…
Leading lucid dreaming researchers from Canada (Mallett, Nielsen) and the US (Konkoly, Carr, Paller) analyzed the main trends in the field. The authors have repeatedly published the results of groundbreaking…
Professor Michel Valentin Marcel Jouvet was a French neuroscientist, the leading sleep scientist of the 20th century, and effectively one of the founding fathers of European sleep science. In an…
