By Albert Lauer © 2014 I was fourteen when a series of sleep paralyses incidents left me distraught. The first time it happened, I was sure I was dying. I had no control and even my breath seemed to stop. Apart from not being able to move, most notable were the vibrations, paired with loud…
By Gustavo Vieira © 2014 I look out a window of my house and am surprised to see my sister, who lives several States away, approaching along a sidewalk. I gladly welcome her surprise visit, and let her in. She tells me she’s on her way to a concert, and will only be staying for…
By Hayden Ebert © 2014 Lucid dreams, Out of Body Experiences (OBEs), Astral Projection… as if the subject of consciousness were not complicated enough, we have all this terminology to decipher. There are hugely varying opinions on the subject of what defines one experience versus another and, as a result, many people remain confused. Ultimately,…
By Gustavo Vieira © 2014 Usually, my WILDs tend to be like OBEs. I say this because those dreams always start with me on my bed in the position I fell asleep in. Here’s what usually happens: Around 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM when I wake up, after a little WBTB, I lay down on…
By Dawn Baumann Brunke © 2014 Imagine yourself in your private dream world, walking through an Arctic landscape, shoulder to shoulder beside a polar bear. You wake up inside the dream and realize: I am dreaming! You turn to the bear, look into his eyes, and realize that he, too, is awake within the dream.…
By Josh Langley © 2014 In the early days of my consciousness exploration, my first OBEs were instigated from dreams. Now that I‘ve had over 40 lucid dreams and 15 or so Out of Body Experiences, I can say that initially they felt completely different, but now the nature of both kinds of experience has…
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…