How to Create the Illusion of Leaving the Body
At the moment of out-of-body experience (OBE), the person feels like they are positioned above the physical body. This is usually accompanied by a feeling of floating or flying. Researchers…
Is Lucid Motors’ Dream Edition Electric Car the Embodiment of Lucid Dreaming or a Coincidence?
The media has already called the new model of the luxury electric car of the company Lucid Motors a lucid dream of CEO Peter Rawlinson. The car is named Dream…
PACM. Is It Now Possible to Detect Lucid Dreams with a Single Sensor?
To prove that a person is experiencing a lucid dream (LD) laboratories around the world use complex electroencephalography, electrooculography, and electromyography (EMG). These sensors register sleep phases, and in order…
Illusion of Leaving the Body with the Help of Virtual Reality
Out-of-body experience (OBE) is one of the phase states, which also include lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, false awakenings, etc. Scientists from Spain and Sweden (Loretxu Bergouignan, Lars Nyberg, and Henrik…
The Progress of Virtual Reality Influenced by Lucid Dreams
By entering the phase state, the term we use for lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences, practitioners pursue different goals. For some, those include health, getting information, meeting people who are…
Are Gamers More Likely to Have Lucid Dreams?
Can video games affect lucid dreaming frequency? This correlation was first discovered by researcher Jayne Gackenbach in 2006. When she interviewed university students who were more likely to have lucid…
Are Lucid Dream Masks Quackery?
The British site, The Independent, in a recently published article, notes the increase in public interest in lucid dreaming over the past year. For example, the query on Google “how…
Is VR Effective in Teaching Lucid Dreaming?
Dutch scientists from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior in Nijmegen have published a new study on lucid dream induction training using virtual reality (VR). The results sparked…
A Mask for Lucid Dreaming. The Question Is, What Color?
Jose M. Aponte Urmeneta, a student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, published a thesis on “Designing a sleep monitoring device to induce lucid dreaming.” The project was…
Is It Possible to Share Dreams?
In November 2020, the Australian portal Gizmodo published an article by author Daniel Kolitz, in which scientists answered a question sent in by readers about whether or not it is…
Does Electrical Stimulation Induce Lucid Dreams?
In 2014, a sensational study was published by German scientists led by Ursula Voss. It claimed to have successfully induced lucid dreaming using transcranial AC stimulation. Electrical stimulation using a…
VR Technologies Stimulate Flight in Dreams
Flying in a dream is both a pleasure and an unforgettable experience. Such dreams, as a rule, are rare and few people can repeat them consciously. However, a team of…
Eye Movement as a Method of Lucid Dreams Confirmation Under Scrutiny
The scientific method of registration of lucid dreams – based on instructing dreamers to move their eyes in a dream at the moment of awareness – was first applied in…
New Dream Control Device Released
It is not a secret that many lucid dream practitioners know how to control the content of their dreams. This phenomenon has also aroused great interest among developers and engineers.…
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…
