For the past few years my father has been going in for regular checkups and blood draws. During this time his platelet count slowly declined, to the degree that last February they scheduled a blood draw to see if he has leukemia, and would require treatment. He had his blood drawn on Thursday, February 12th,…
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily Author, artist, psychologist and lucid dreamer, Michael Katz teaches Tibetan Buddhist dream yoga to the international Dzogchen community. The LDE welcomes Michael. I recall meeting you briefly in June of 1995. I was in Manhattan, attending my first Association for the Study of Dreams conference.…
‘Who are you? Who are you?’ At the time, it seemed a simple question, which I posed to the young woman in the lucid dream. But this simple question led to profound lessons in lucidity, and taught me much about the nature of transformation in dreams, lucid dreams, and waking. In the dream, I found…
By Fiona Reynolds © 2015 I met a stranger in a landscape. The ground in the landscape was immensely colourful, the sky was a uniform semi-translucent blue. The hooded, cloaked stranger approached over the brow of a hill. I was hesitant at first, not sure if I should be worried by this character, so I…
By Lucy Gillis © 2015 That was the question posed for the LDE winter edition theme. This rather broad question was further refined by a subset of more specific questions regarding topics like dual awareness, shapeshifting, and multiple simultaneous dreaming, and how these experiences have affected your state of awareness. Scanning through my dream journals,…
By Nic Heinz © 2004 I have a few tricks for helping me have lucid dreams: I have a brown leather bracelet/arm band that I wear, and during the coarse of my day if I see it, I pause and ask myself if I am dreaming. Also if I hear or see anything strange…
By Peter Siedlecki © 2017 What Robert Bruce says in his book: “Another slightly less complicated method of converting lucid dreams into OBEs requires simulating the feeling of falling within the dream itself. To use this technique, cross your dream arms across your dream chest once you realize you are dreaming. Relax your body, then…
By Emmy van Swaaij © 2006 I stumbled upon something interesting in the dreamstate… a technique to travel in between two different layers of soil…. so to speak. I’m still exploring this whole thing myself (and will probably do so for many years to come) and it’s still very fresh…but I would like to share…
By Lucy Gillis © 2006 Editor’s Note: Steve Parker has been lucid dreaming for some time now, and has been having success with the W.I.L.D technique. A “W.I.L.D” is a “Wake Initiated Lucid Dream”; a dream in which the dreamer enters the dream state consciously, without first falling asleep. The term “W.I.L.D.” became popularized after…
Firas Hasan Bazzari Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Summary. The phenomenon of lucid dreaming, in which an individual has the ability to be conscious and in control of his dreams, has attracted the public attention, especially in the era of internet and social media platforms. With its huge popularity, lucid dreaming triggered passionate…
By Karim © 2015 One of the things I enjoy when lucid dreaming is the ability to explore any concept or any way of being. We get the opportunity to experience our consciousness as an animal, insect, a plant or even a different human. Something that we cannot do in waking life seems possible in…
By Karim © 2016 This was a lucid dream that profoundly affected me and changed the way I view waking life. It made me realise how important it is to learn detachment and letting go. In this dream I was shown a highly personalized version of afterlife testing. I have heard of books like ‘The…