By Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. © 2012 In the last issue of LDE, in the list of my “Top Ten” lucid dreams, I included one in which I flew to, and bathed in, “The Fountain of Youth.” In this dream I experienced one of the most breathtaking, beautiful, and multisensory dreamscapes I’ve ever encountered. As…
By kiddLúcid © 2012 1 Transformed my body into a dolphin‘s and explored a phantasmagorical ocean 2 Met my dream guide and his family 3 Proved I was dreaming to a bunch of dream characters by walking on water 4 Learned that my perception creates reality from John Lennon 5 Transformed a truck into a Ferrari…
By Lucy Gillis © 2012 “I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite And while I rise from my own globe to others And penetrate ever further through the eternal field, That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.” – Giordano Bruno The statue featured on the cover of this issue…
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily A lucid dreamer since the age of 15, Naiya has perfected her lucid dreaming skills in the past decade. Though she frequents the lucid dream forum, MortalMist.com, her lucid dream forays have allowed her to develop relationships with recurring dream figures, encounter kundalinitype energy and explore…
By Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. © 2012 “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” Buddha On the night before Halloween in my sophomore year in college, I dreamed that a demon chased…
By Christoph Gassmann, Horgen, 2012 © 2012 I would like to tell you a story about my sometimes successful attempts to soar consciously through the skies of my dreams. It is a fictional story, but it is based on a compilation of my lucid flying dreams. For this I would like to introduce you Jacob,…
By David L. Kahn © 2012 In June of this year I presented on smart phone apps for dreaming at the International Association for the Study of Dreams conference in Berkeley, California. Many of the apps that I discussed, and a couple of others I have tried out since, are specifically intended to help increase…
By Andres Broos © 2012 For several days in a row I have been repeating requests to my inner self just before sleeping. One of them was this: “Around five o’clock I will become lucid in my dream” (I wake up at 7 for work.) I didn’t have any success with that request. Maybe…
By Joan C. Harthan © 2012 It was a wet and cold Sunday evening in October 2009. I’d gone to bed at 10.30pm and read three of the IASD PsiberDreaming conference papers that I hadn’t had chance to read over the weekend. They were, as usual, fascinating and thought provoking, but they didn’t stop me falling…
– Comments by Lucid Dreamers Note: Many lucid dreamers wrote about using lucid dreams to face fears, and how lucid dreaming often led to overcoming long term fears and personal concerns. The LDE has placed three of these commentaries in this special section. Moonbeam Lucid Dreaming to Overcome Fear At the end of…