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…
By Lucy Gillis © 2012 WTF Was That?! I first encountered simultaneous dreaming in 1988. It completely blew my mind! I had never experienced anything like it before and was at a loss for an explanation. I had been in two dreams at the same time but not only that, I was lucidly aware…
By LDE Science Correspondent Bill Murphy © 2012 ScienceDaily (July 27, 2012) — Studies of lucid dreamers show which centers of the brain become active when we become aware of ourselves in dreams. Which areas of the brain help us to perceive our world in a self-reflective manner is difficult to measure. During wakefulness,…
Can lucid dreaming make psi information more accessible? Imagine competing in a precognitive dream contest, where participants have to post their dream reports on a time and date stamped discussion board, nine hours before the random selection of a target image. The target pool of 131 images includes a wide range of paintings, photos and…
By Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. © 2012 “I have no doubt whatever that most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of…
By Line Salvesen © 2013 1 Bounced on a trampoline, landed on the moon, grabbed a telescope and watched the edge of the universe fold like an Oriental fan. 2 Flipped through a photo book which made it possible for me to view alternate dimensions. 3 Talked with deceased friends and spirit guides, who provided…
By Bill Murphy, LDE Science Correspondent © 2013 At the 21st Annual International Conference of the International Association for the Study (ASD) of Dreams, former ASD officer Robert J. Hoss, MS, presented an analysis of colors reported in dreams. His 2004 presentation was part of a much larger study of dream reports that Hoss continued…
By Christoph Gassmann © 2013 As I am writing about my experiences of light in lucid dreams, the winter sun is shining brightly over the horizon and is illuminating every corner of my room. The last day of this year will soon come to an end. The theme of light is of utmost importance for my…
By Sirley Marques Bonham, Ph.D. © 2013 Seeing lights in my lucid dreams or out-of-body experiences is a very common phenomenon for me. However, before I go on, let me clarify to the reader that, personally, I have never perceived any significant differences between lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences. I see these differences mainly as…
By Nigel Hamilton, PhD © 2013 The experience of vivid colours in lucid dreams can make a lasting impression upon the dreamer, often serving as a reminder of the significance of the dream itself. Whilst the form or container that the colour appears in has a meaning, be it an object, a person‘s skin colour…