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 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 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 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…
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,…
By Karim © 2015 One of the things I enjoy when lucid dreaming is the ability to explore any concept or any way of being. We get the opportunity to experience our consciousness as an animal, insect, a plant or even a different human. Something that we cannot do in waking life seems possible in…
An excerpt by Robert Waggoner from Consciousness Beyond the Body: Evidence and Reflections In the early 1980s, most commentators and researchers appeared to accept a clear-cut distinction between OBEs and lucid dreams. A July 1983 survey conducted by Susan Blackmore (1983) at the University of Bristol found that of 593 randomly selected individuals, 47% reported…
By E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D © 2016 The American mystic and esoteric philosopher Franklin Merrell-Wolff contributed some of the clearest and most insightful accounts of ‘Transcendent Consciousness’ I‘ve yet to come across. Majoring in mathematics, he earned a degree from Stanford in 1911, studied philosophy at Harvard, but then returned to Stanford to teach.…
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…
Photo by LeandroDeCarvalho via Pixabay Author, lucid dreamer, and consciousness explorer Emma Toynbee shares how she uses lucid dreaming for insight into future probabilities, developing creativity, personal growth, and healing. When did you first learn about lucid dreaming? My first proper introduction to lucid dreaming was in London when I attended one of…
Hi Robert, I am new to lucid dreaming and have a question. My whole life I have woken up while in sleep paralysis right before falling asleep. My body is frozen, yet I am awake and conscious. I always pull myself out of it, but it is bothersome and anxiety-provoking. I learned recently that this…