By Maria Carla Cernuto © 2014 This is an account of an OOBE/Lucid dream taken from a blog I wrote for DreamsCloud.com titled, “Another Look at Out of Body Experiences: Astral Projection Versus Lucid Dreaming.” It illustrates how getting lucid can lead to an OOBE. Lucidity began in sleep paralysis, was followed by a false…
Intentionally and unintentionally throughout the day, you shift the focus of your awareness. Moving from waking to sleeping and back again provides powerful evidence for a significant shift in awareness. Similarly, transitioning from waking to deep meditating offers an intentional shift in focus and awareness. Even during a boring conversation, you may notice your awareness…
By Bill Murphy, LDE Science Correspondent © 2014 In a paper published February 10, 2014 in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, brain function of a healthy volunteer experiencing the sensation of being out of her body was analyzed. The 24 year old graduate student reported she had developed the ability for astral projection as…
“I always enjoy a good novel on long flights, but was really pleased by this first novel, Companions of Clay, by author, S. Chaudhry. Weaving lucid dreams into some tight dialogue, realistic lives, thoughtful struggles and believable settings gave me hope that some Hollywood type would find this novel, and realize…
By E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D. ©2014 © 2014 Given the theme of this issue of LDE, “Lucid Dreams or OBEs,” I’d like to share some of my comparative observations, based on my own experiences. I’ve had well over a thousand fully lucid dreams, and around a hundred OBEs, many of them intentionally. Some…
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily Lucid dreamer, Cherylee Black, holds the distinction of having three NDEs or near-death experiences, along with many interesting lucid dreams, lucid nightmares and OBEs. A musician and artist in the first half of her life, she switched to science and research in the second half after…
By BJ Manning © 2009 This article is reprinted from Lucid Dream Exchange Magazine #51, 2009 My lucid healing dreams added another dimension to my quest for a cure. I had been going to doctors in western traditional and complementary medicine, naturopathic doctors, Chinese medicine practitioners, herbalists, and energy healers, with the hope to receive…
By By Laurance © 2014 In response to a suggestion by Robert Waggoner in his Internet course, I‘ve chanted in several lucid dreams, obtaining very different results depending upon the specific mantra used. In two, I‘ve chanted ‘HU.’ According to the Eckankar spiritual tradition, which emphasizes spiritual dreaming and soul travel, HU is an…
By Josh Langley © 2014 For a long time I‘ve had a burning question about guidance and a strong desire to make contact with a guide of some sort. Whenever I asked to meet a guide in a lucid dream or OBE I‘d either get no response or I‘d wake up quickly and feel really…
By Dr. Clare Johnson © 2017 For me and many others, our first lucid dream lesson seemed a simple one — don‘t get too excited or the lucid dream may collapse. Within seconds of feeling far too much emotion while lucid, I could sense the coming collapse of the lucid dream. After a few more…
By Maria Isabel Pita © 2014 Lucid Dream of April 15, 2014 I’m lying on my left side in a dark room looking at my reflection in a large mirror standing directly before me. I’m so comfortably lucid, I seem to actually be wake. I can see my reflected face quite clearly. It looks…
