By E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D. © 2013 ‘The most difficult thing of all is to see what is before your eyes.’ Goethe In our waking lives, we usually assume that other people experience the world pretty much the way we do, even though under normal circumstances we rarely – if ever – check to…
By Lucy Gillis © 2013 In preparing for this issue of LDE, my original intent was to write about my most memorable lucid mirror dream, illustrated with a photo1 that Richard Wilkerson (of IASD) had taken/created several years ago, and which I felt reflected the dream perfectly. I also wanted to choose some lucid mirror dreams…
By Maria Isabel Pita © 2013 http://luciddreamsandtheholyspirit.com/ When someone you love dies, wouldn’t it be wonderful to still be able to see them on a regular basis? This might popularly be considered a ‘pipe dream’ question but the actual answer is—Yes, you can, in your dreams and in your lucid dreams. The knowledge that we…
By Caz Coronel © 2013 As a DJ, getting tinnitus was always something I worried about. Even when I was younger I would sometimes hear it after a big night out, but luckily it would always go away the next day. I remember the horror of hearing the ringing and praying that I would promise…
Jamila Suzanne Metal Ball/Bowl March 2012: about to enter into a lucid dream workshop and given the task to look for a reflective surface and see what happens. I had two dreams: one the first night where when I found the reflective surface and realized lucidity, I woke up. The second night is as…
By Hayden Ebert © 2013 Entering the Lucid Dream State by Harnessing the Magical Power of Intent Throughout my life I have had an intense interest in exploring the capabilities of our consciousness. This journey has taken me on some amazing adventures to dimensions of reality that are hidden just beyond the veil of…
By Maria Carla Cernuto © 2014 When I was a teenager, I would carry around a dream totem in my pocket. This odd item took many shapes over the years – an old 9mm bullet, a 25 cent plastic monkey, a pocket compass. What the item was didn’t matter as much as the function…
By Bill Murphy/Science Correspondent © 2013 UC Berkeley neuroscientists addressed that question in a paper published September 22, 2011 in the online journal Current Biology. The team consisting of Shinji Nishimoto, An T.Vu, Thomas Naselaris, Yuval Benjamini, Bin Yu and Jack L. Gallant at the university developed a system to capture activity in the visual…
By Mary Ziemer © 2013 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. —1 Corinthians 13:12, King James Version The word ‘lucidity’ implies ‘clarity’ but what if we also see the lucid state…
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily Buddhist teacher, lucid dreamer, and author of the soon-to-be released book ‘Dreams of Awakening’, Charlie Morley seeks to awaken all sentient beings. How did you become interested in lucid dreaming? When did you first hear about it? It was a couple of months before…
By Maria Isabel Pita © 2013 People would be disturbed to see a cat with its whiskers clipped off. Whiskers are part of a cat’s sensory perceptions, a vital part of how it collects information and makes sense of it. Our dreams are similar to cat’s whiskers, and when we cut ourselves off from the…
By Bill Murphy, Science Correspondent © 2013 Whether you‘ve entered a state of lucidity or are having a free form dream without achieving self-awareness, you‘re still sensing the world outside of your body. And that means you are responding to the stimuli in a limited manner. After you fall asleep you may pull up the blanket…