Excerpts from a study initially published in the International Journal Of Dream Research – http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/9483/pdf_30 “Lucid Dreaming During NREM Sleep: Two Case Reports Tadas Stumbrys1 & Daniel Erlacher2 1 Heidelberg University, Germany 2 University of Bern, Switzerland Preview in new tab …REM dream reports are typically longer, more bizarre, more perceptually vivid, more emotionally charged and more motorically animated, whereas NREM dream reports contain more thought-like mentation and representation of current con ..read more

MIXING PSYCHOLOGY AND REALITY CHECKS – Using Awareness Of Emotions To Induce Reality Checks and Positive Thinking “Metacognition refers to one’s awareness of and ability to regulate one’s own thinking” – https://sites.google.com/a/uwlax.edu/exploring-how-students-learn/what-s-all-the-fuss-about-metacognition “…The differences in volumes in the anterior prefrontal cortex between lucid dreamers and non-lucid dreamers suggest that lucid dreaming and metacognition are indeed closely connected… Our results indicate that self-reflection in everyday life is more pronounced in persons who can easily c ..read more

I wasn’t tested for autism until I was already working in the field of mental health for several years as a case-manager for clients with autism and other similar conditions. One might wonder how I didn’t figure out my own diagnosis after studying and working directly with these traits for years. My ability to adapt to my particular style of processing was so high, it just didn’t seriously occur to me. Sure, I always felt a bit like the “outsider”, the way most people behaved was a mystery to me since I was a child and if you asked my mother what I was like growing up she’ll say I was a rather ..read more

Excerpts from a study by Stephen LaBerge – Lucidity Institute: “Prolonging Lucid Dreams… By Stephen LaBerge Experiment Lucidity Institute members were invited to compare each of the following… A. SPINNING… B. GOING WITH THE FLOW  When subjects were in a lucid dream and the dream began to fade, they were to persist in doing whatever they were doing in the dream before it started to fade… C. RUBBING HANDS TOGETHER… Results …Only 33% of the FLOW TECHNIQUE lucid dreams were prolonged, compared with 90% of the RUBBING and 96% of the SPINNING lucid dreams… …Overall, the odds in favor of conti ..read more

Below is an excerpt from an article by Kevin Healey – THE BLOG – 04/27/2016 – HUFFPOST “Dreaming the Virtual: Why Lucid Dreamers Should Steer the Digital Economy… … Beyond simple aesthetics, lucid dreaming and VR share some of the same therapeutic applications. VR can be used to treat PTSD, for example. Lucid dream therapy can do that too. Other applications involve treatment of nightmares and anxieties related to autism—not to mention their use as tools for creative and artistic expression. But VR and lucid dreaming are different. A lucid dream is limited o ..read more

By Ian Jaydid The practice of contacting loved ones who have passed via “psychic” channels is as old as religion itself, but my aim here is to examine the core dynamics of this phenomenon in a manner anyone, from any background or philosophy should be able to make use of. You’re welcome to view my descriptions through a religious or “supernatural” perspective, but in my experience nothing is beyond nature: All of these phenomena are perfectly natural, not “super” natural. Our sciences just need to catch up with what we can experience first-hand.. If you’re at all familiar with my talks or wri ..read more

We’re going to explore a technique in Lucid Dreaming I refer to as “The Avatar Approach” which I believe holds great benefit for both the beginner and the advanced. It’s also an approach I have been hesitant to discuss for many years now. Hopefully by the end of this article my apprehension will be clear and anyone who attempts it will approach it with care and respect. The technique in and of itself is rather simple in its elegance, but to fully appreciate its full potential we need to dive into the philosophy and the mechanics behind it. I began spontaneously entering conscious Lucidity duri ..read more

The below referenced study has been initially published in the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DREAM RESEARCH (IJoDR – https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/index – (Vol 12, No 2 – October 2019) “Big Five Personality Traits And Dream Recall Frequency In Spontaneous Vs. Self-Trained Lucid Dreamers” Bita Shafiei – Department of Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran – IJoDR “Acknowledgements – The author would like to thank Michael Schredl for his help with preparing the manuscript.” Excerpts: “…lucid dream frequency is moderately associated with lucid dream cont ..read more

By Ian Jaydid I began lucid dreaming spontaneously around the age of nineteen. For approximately the next fifteen years I would enter these intense, highly bizarre states of consciousness on a nearly nightly basis – often for hours on end. After my first experience of “waking up” within a dream there was only one thing I was certain of: whatever had just happened to me was unusual and significant, although I had no clue what that might mean. As the months and years went on, my nightly journeys grew ever more strange and elaborate, and my questions only mounted. Some of these environments I was ..read more

Lana Sackwild’s research focuses on THE HEALING & TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF LUCID DREAMING FOR MITIGATING DEPRESSION and other lucid dreaming applications in the mental health field. Lana’s unique and inspiring approach is supported by 23 years of lucid dream experience and a  history of personal transformation that speaks volumes.  RESEARCH: THE HEALING & TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF LUCID DREAMING FOR MITIGATING DEPRESSION – Research Participants Wanted  “… The objective of my research is to analyze and distinguish the transformative healing effects ta ..read more