Scientific Discussions about the Borders of Near-Death Experience
Earlier this year, a group of researchers led by Sam Parnia (USA) proposed a new way of thinking about near-death experience (NDE). Since then, the discussion around this issue has…
Scientists Fantasize About Future of Lucid Dreaming
Is it possible to learn a language or get over an illness overnight in a dream? The world of dreams, including lucid ones (LD), is far from being fully understood.…
September 14 2022 – Michael Schredl’s Birthday
Michael Schredl is a German researcher, scientific manager of the sleep laboratory at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim. He is the editor of the International Journal of…
July 1 2022 – Michael Raduga’s Birthday
Michael Raduga is a leading researcher of phase states, the author of 16 books, the founder of the Phase School and the Phase Research Center, an expert on the TV…
March 25 2022 – 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 2022 – 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…
Studies of Lucid Dreams in 2021
Last year, more than two dozen studies on lucid dreaming (LD) were published in international scientific journals. The leaders in this respect were the USA and Russia, with five papers…
December 13 2021 – Michelle Carr’s Birthday
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…
October 30 2021 – Robert Monroe’s Birthday
Robert (Bob) Monroe was born in 1915 in Indiana (USA). He received a bachelor’s degree in English and worked at radio stations, but he is mostly known as a prominent…
October 17 2021 – Hereward Carrington’s birthday
Hereward Carrington was an American writer of British origin in the first half of the twentieth century and researcher of psychic phenomena. He left a legacy of more than a…
September 14 2021 – Michael Schredl’s birthday
Michael Schredl is a German researcher, scientific manager of the sleep laboratory at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim. He is the editor of the International Journal of…
September 2 2021 – 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 2021 – 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 2021 – 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 2021 – 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 1 2021 – Michael Raduga’s birthday
Michael Raduga is a leading researcher of phase states, the author of 16 books, the founder of the Phase School and the Phase Research Center, an expert on the TV…
Dream Work: a Vacancy for Lucid Dreamers and Narcoleptic Patients
In the summer of 2021, the first permanent laboratory for the study of phase states (lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, out-of-body experience, etc.) will open in the south of Russia. The…
Future Development of the Dialogue between the Two Worlds
In February 2021, the journal Current Biology published an article by a group of scientists led by Karen Konkoly, in which the reasearchers demonstrated the ability to communicate with lucid…
Forty-six years since the phenomenon of LD was scientifically confirmed
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…
How the Science of Lucid Dreams Is Developing. Interview with Benjamin Baird
Benjamin Baird is a researcher at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness in the School of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Specializing in cognitive psychology and neurobiology, he published…
