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…
By Marcelle Liemant © 2017 Recently I sat down and had a conversation with the protagonist of the story I‘m writing. It was an enlightening and affirming experience that certainly stoked the fires to finish. It also took place in a dream. The Dream I entered into a void dream from sleep paralysis.…
by Clare R Johnson, PhD © 2015 Lucid, I recall my intention to find a ‘magic box‘ of images, ideas, and inspiration. I immediately see a treasure chest lolling open behind a tree. There are two big guard dogs near it but I shoo them away. To my surprise, the treasure chest is bursting with…