Star of Divergent Series Uses Herbs to Become Lucid in a Dream
Shailene Woodley is an American actress and model. She first entered the entertainment arena portraying Amy in the TV series The Secret Life of the American Teenager and gained worldwide…
Dreamento – a Program for the Study of Lucid Dreams
The gold standard for studying human sleep is polysomnography (PSG) which consists of electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), and electrooculography (EOG) as the primary physiological signals. However, it is difficult, expensive,…
Are Lucid Dreamers at Risk of Psychosis?
The relationship between nightmares and lucid dreams (LD) has been studied repeatedly. Usually, the effect is positive: lucidity makes it possible to control what is happening in the dream and…
Experience Lucid Dreaming through Virtual Reality
Lucid dreaming (LD) is an exciting experience with many advantages. However, not everyone experiences it as often as they would like. To help matters, a group of scientists from Canada…
What to Eat to Experience Lucid Dreams?
The effects of various substances (B vitamins, antidepressants, galantamine) on the frequency of lucid dreams (LD) have been studied more than once by researchers. The German author Josua Biehl went…
What are Your Chances of Experiencing Sleep Paralysis?
Scientists have repeatedly collected statistics about sleep paralysis (SP), trying to understand how many people on average are affected by this phenomenon and what influences its occurrence. Researchers from the…
What Does Sleep Paralysis Look Like?
If you have never experienced sleep paralysis (SP) and have no idea how it happens, then head on over to the Paranormal Network channel—dedicated to various unidentified phenomena— where a…
Overcoming Phobias Through Lucid Dreams
In a lucid dream (LD), people not only understand that they are dreaming, but can also influence the scenario. Compared to the physical world, LD has an important advantage: it…
Is Pregabalin a New Way to Get into Lucid Dreams?
Galantamine is one of the most well-known drugs for stimulating lucid dreams (LD). Quite a large number of studies have been devoted to it. However, recently, medical practitioners from the…
Afterdream—Get Lost in a Lucid Dream
Afterdream is a 2D adventure game in the genre of psychological horror. The player plunges into a haunting lucid dream (LD); but, no matter how terrible the events, the main…
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…
Sleep Paralysis as a Result of Psychological Trauma
Bereavement often leads to sleep disorders, and the stronger the grief, the more significant the problem. In a recent article, researchers from the USA—Cybele Blood and Joanne Cacciatore—have suggested that…
What Came First: Sleep Paralysis or Belief in the Paranormal?
About 80% of all cases of sleep paralysis (SP) are accompanied by hallucinations: visual, auditory, and tactile. Often a paralyzed person sees an incubus or a demon. But what comes…
Sports in a Lucid Dream as Mental Training
Sports practice in a lucid dream (LD) is the deliberate training of physical skills in LD. It can be used to practice any sport from skiing to gymnastics. One springboard…
“False Awakening” with Alec Baldwin
After the tragedy that occurred in the fall of 2021 on the set of the film Rust, when Alec Baldwin was mistakenly given a loaded gun and accidentally shot the…
Does Belief in the Significance of Dreams Affect Lucidity?
There are a huge number of scientific papers on the topic of lucid dreams (LD). However, as noted by Palestinian authors, Firas H. Bazzari and Amjad H. Bazzari, the subject…
Causes of Sleep Paralysis Include Anxiety, Coffee, Alcohol, Nicotine, and… Sports?
Approximately every third student experiences sleep paralysis (SP). The reasons for the high prevalence of SP specifically among students are not entirely clear. A group of scientists from Poland (Wróbel-Knybel,…
“I Love You”: First Phrase Detected in Lucid Dream
Is it possible to look into someone else’s dream and communicate with the dreamer in real time? Until now, in attempting such communication, scientists have used only “yes/no” questions which…
Doctor Strange Opens Portal to Parallel Worlds Through Dreams
Doctor Strange—a superhero in the Marvel universe—has returned to delight fans in the sequel titled Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Played by Benedict Cumberbatch, the protagonist, as usual,…
The “Aura” of Phase States
There are several ways to have an out-of-body experience (OBE). Most of them are similar to lucid dream induction. The main method is the conscious recollection of bodily sensations (sounds,…
