By Marcelle Liemant © 2015 The unconscious mind is a powerful place, and this power is only really just being explored. When we lucid dream, the unconscious mind becomes our playground. But I wanted to see what else besides fun it had to offer. I wanted to experience an abstract concept. As a student of…
By Bill Murphy © 2015 Bizarre aliens and invisible force fields have been depicted in countless science fiction movies. It‘s one thing for a person to take in a fun film in a theater, but it‘s quite another to have an immersive encounter in a vivid dream. And when the dreamer becomes lucid, those strange…
When I think about my dream life and ‘aliens‘, a strange fact emerges: I cannot recall a singular regular dream featuring an alien, however in a few semi-lucid and lucid dreams, alien-looking figures have appeared. Sometimes with advice, sometimes with questions, and sometimes with wry observations. Because of the complexity of dream figures, these…
By Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. © 2015 Throughout recorded history, people have recounted experiences of encountering non-human beings, or even of finding themselves abducted by them. For most of this time people identified such beings as supernatural, for example, in Celtic countries specifically as the Sidhe (fairies), and more generically as spirits, demons, or gods. In…
By Arthur Gillard © 2015 Anamnesis is a science fiction web series about lucid dreaming based on an original short film of the same name. It has been getting a great deal of positive attention in the lucid dreaming community based on its accurate and realistic portrayal of lucid dreaming, as well as its compelling…
By Eike Swoboda © 2015 I‘m a musician and filmmaker from Hamburg, Germany. When I first heard about lucid dreaming, I had been suffering from a writer‘s block for about a year. I was immediately fascinated by the idea of gaining consciousness of dreaming whilst being in a dream, so I started reading all…
There is a lot to appreciate when modern technology attempts to provide measurable data to validate phenomenology, which is the study of the structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. Since my focus in this column is to report on the scientific research of lucid dreams, I usually remain neutral when…
In lucid dreams, follow the creativity…. After a few years as a beginning lucid dreamer, I noticed a simple point: as my mind changes, the lucid dream normally reflects the change. For example, when lucidly aware and trying to fly, my sudden remembrance that ‘Gravity does not exist here,‘ would immediately ‘create‘ a space…
