By Gary L. Zhang © 2012 Disclaimer There are many similarities between SSILD and the other lucid dream induction methods such as WILD, MILD, etc. In fact, if you wish, you could label SSILD as a derivative of those methods, or you could simply write it off as an old method with a new name…
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,…
By Bill Murphy Science Correspondent © 2013 There are researchers exploring the question that two way communications from within dreams are possible. In my interview with Daniel Oldis, one of the pioneers in this niche of lucid dream research, he shared that he has been working for many years to establish a communication protocol to…
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 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…
By Peter A. Luber © 2014 People have sought to understand how our mind perceives the world from the beginning of history. Although no written records have survived, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras (570 BC – 495 BC) has been credited with the insight of gaining wisdom in the darkness of caves. Giving him credit…
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…
By Bill Murphy © 2014 Before making an important decision, many people use the phrase ‘I‘ll sleep on it first.’ Imagine the implications of trying to understand how not just the brain, but how the entire human body communicates on an intercellular level. With so much at stake, this challenge wasn‘t fully tackled until the…
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…
Firas Hasan Bazzari Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Summary. The phenomenon of lucid dreaming, in which an individual has the ability to be conscious and in control of his dreams, has attracted the public attention, especially in the era of internet and social media platforms. With its huge popularity, lucid dreaming triggered passionate…
Nicolas Zink & Reinhard Pietrowsky Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Department of Clinical Psychology, Düsseldorf, Germany Summary. The present review gives an overview on common theories of dreaming with a specific emphasis on how they are able to explain lucid dreaming. The theories are grouped either to such that describe structural or biological processes of dreams or to such…