September 2, 2025 – Stephen LaBerge’s Birthday
Stephen LaBerge is an American psychophysiologist, the founder and head of the Lucidity Institute, and the author of books that are widely read by lucid dreamers around the world. In…
August 31, 2025 – Patricia Garfield’s Birthday
Patricia Garfield, PhD in clinical psychology, is a world authority in the field of dreams. She has written more than ten books on the topic, the most famous among them…
August 16, 2025 – Sergio Arthuro Mota-Rolim’s Birthday
Sergio Arthuro Mota-Rolim is a research collaborator at the Brain Institute and the Sleep Laboratory of the Onofre Lopes Hospital at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil).…
August 14, 2025 – Victor Spoormaker’s Birthday
Victor Spoormaker is a Dutch researcher and author of books on the topic of sleep and dreams. He works at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (Germany) and…
July 29 – William Dement’s Birthday
William Charles Dement was an American physician and scientist and is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of sleep medicine. He published over 500 scientific articles, established the…
July 1, 2025 – Michael Raduga’s Birthday
Michael Raduga is a leading researcher of phase states, the author of 17 books, the CEO and founder of REMspace, and an expert on the TV show Inexplicable, yet Fact.…
June 3 – Allan Hobson’s Birthday
Allan Hobson was an American psychiatrist who challenged Freud’s psychoanalysis. As Hobson said in an interview, “Psychoanalysis has become the bible, and I think that’s crazy.” He argued that dreams…
May 28 – Andrey Shashkov’s Birthday
Andrey Shashkov is an active lucid dreaming researcher at REMspace. He has been a researcher on the Project Elijah since 2019. He holds a degree in chemistry, and his scientific…
May 24 – Jayne Gackenbach’s Birthday
Jayne Gackenbach is a doctor of Experimental Psychology, a university lecturer in US and Canadian on the subject of sleep and dreams, the former president of the International Association for…
May 6 is the Birthday of Eugene Aserinsky and Marie-Jean-Léon Lecoq
Eugene Aserinsky was a scientist who, together with Nathaniel Kleitman, discovered the rapid eye movement (REM) phase. In 1953, Aserinsky was working at the University of Chicago. His dissertation titled…
April 26 – Nathaniel Kleitman’s Birthday
Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman was an American neurophysiologist who had devoted his entire research activity to the study of sleep as a phenomenon. He is considered “The Father of Sleep Research”…
April 14 – Robert Peterson’s Birthday
Robert “Bob” Peterson has been studying out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and other unusual practices since graduating from high school in 1979. While studying at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology,…
Lucid Dreaming Science: Half a Century On
In 1975, on April 12, the practice of lucid dreaming was first confirmed in the laboratory. English psychologist Dr Keith Hearne discovered a way to allow lucid dreamers to signal…
April 8 – Keith Hearne’s Birthday
Dr. Keith Hearne is a renowned psychologist from the UK who is the first scientist in the world to have confirmed the phenomenon of lucid dreaming (LD) in the laboratory.…
March 25, 2025 – Tadas Stumbrys’s Birthday
Tadas Stumbrys is a psychologist, lecturer and active researcher of lucid dreams (LD) from Lithuania. He has been working on this topic since 2008, when he first experienced a lucid…
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…
February 16 – Charles Webster Leadbeater’s Birthday
Charles Webster Leadbeater was a mystic and one of the leaders of the Theosophical Society of the late nineteenth–early twentieth century. He was born in the UK and ordained as…
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…
An Overview of Lucid Dream Studies in 2024
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…
December 18 – Lynne Levitan’s Birthday
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…
