By Christoph Gassmann, Horgen, 2012 © 2012 I would like to tell you a story about my sometimes successful attempts to soar consciously through the skies of my dreams. It is a fictional story, but it is based on a compilation of my lucid flying dreams. For this I would like to introduce you Jacob,…
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…
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 E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D. © 2013 ‘The most difficult thing of all is to see what is before your eyes.’ Goethe In our waking lives, we usually assume that other people experience the world pretty much the way we do, even though under normal circumstances we rarely – if ever – check to…
By Maria Isabel Pita © 2013 People would be disturbed to see a cat with its whiskers clipped off. Whiskers are part of a cat’s sensory perceptions, a vital part of how it collects information and makes sense of it. Our dreams are similar to cat’s whiskers, and when we cut ourselves off from the…
By Rory Mac Sweeney © 2013 “My new project, The Mutual Dream Experiment, seeks to encourage people to explore the nature of reality by allowing a means in which to investigate the process of shared dreaming. There is a consensus among people who really tune into their dream life that the possibility of exchanging information…
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 Mary Zeimer © 2014 Let the eye of your heart be opened that you may see the spirit and behold invisible things.—Ahmad Hatif (1198) I have experienced lucid dreaming in large part as a pathway to knowledge of ‘the essence behind existence,’ a knowledge of the Self and a more Celestial consciousness. The following…
By Bill Murphy, LDE Science Correspondent © 2016 While researching the topic of lucid dreams of the deceased, I reviewed the work of those who have studied various categories of dreams looking for relevant data. The challenge of providing examples of communication with deceased loved ones while in a lucid dream was confounding in some regards while acknowledging…
By Melinda Ziemer ©2016 For this issue of the Lucid Dream Experience (LDE), the editors have invited us to share lucid experiences in which we have asked “the Awareness behind the dream” to reveal a truth to us. This request reminds me of lines in a poem by St. Thomas Aquinas in which he relates:…