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…
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily Lucid dreamer, Thomas Peisel, joined forces with lucid dreaming co-authors, friends, and Kickstarter to publish, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics. Check out how Thomas sees lucid dreaming as a means to promote greater awareness, insight, and emotional health. Tell…
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…
Does space actually exist in your lucid dreams? Many of you may find this question strange. Once lucid, you fly around cities, go through walls and explore the dreamscape. In fact, some lucid dreams involve almost constant exploring. Space certainly seems to exist, since you perceive yourself moving through it. Yet as a lucid…
By Lucy Gillis © 2014 It may seem ironic that in a magazine dedicated to lucid dreaming, I present an article that opens with a description of an experience in which lucid awareness was not only not present, but would have been impossible. Impossible, because in order to be lucid in the traditional sense, in…
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 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…
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…
By Lucy Gillis © 2015 That was the question posed for the LDE winter edition theme. This rather broad question was further refined by a subset of more specific questions regarding topics like dual awareness, shapeshifting, and multiple simultaneous dreaming, and how these experiences have affected your state of awareness. Scanning through my dream journals,…
In the weeks after my father passed, I found myself sitting with him at a TWA departure gate in some nondescript, silvery gray airport. My father didn‘t say anything, and little happened in the dream. After a second dream of waiting with him at the TWA gate, the symbolism suddenly hit me. The TWA gate…
By Brian Aherne © 2016 Asking questions (usually out loud) in lucid dreams about ‘Life, the universe & everything’, or even just where exactly you left your lost house keys (D’oh!), is a sure-fire way to access the subconscious mind and to pull information from it! Incredibly interesting, confusing or just plain weird; the answers…
By Alexandra Enns © 2016 Having gotten stuck in a continuous phase of emotional upheavals concerning my plans and relationships, I was longing for a clarification of my current circumstances. The following brief excerpt from a lucid dream at that time serves as the beginning of a gradual cleansing of my life situation: “Stormy Winds” Leaving the courtyard of…