What happens when you look into a mirror? Do you begin to relate to the reflection? Does your analytical mind arise (e.g., ‘I need to wash my hair’) or the emotional mind (e.g., ‘You look marvelous!’) or the social mind (e.g., ‘I wish that pimple would go away—I want to look good for the party’)?…
By Ed Kellogg (© E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.) (This feature presents cutting-edge lucid dreaming tasks. Participants agree to accept personal responsibility for any risks should they choose to undertake challenges, which may bring about mental, emotional, and even physical changes. We invite those of you who try these tasks to send your dream reports…
Alexandra Enns is a German writer and blogger whose main focus is on lucid dreaming. When did you first learn about lucid dreaming? What did you think when you heard about it? My first lucid dream occurred when I was a child, emanating from the persistent apprehension that a giant alligator (!) would creep from…
By Karim © 2018 I have read many interesting dream accounts of people seeing themselves in mirrors looking different than in waking life. Some can be a different gender, race, or even species. Some had conversations with their reflections. Some just saw a different world in a mirror like a TV screen. Some have seen…
Lucid dreamer Mike Porter learned of the potential of lucid dreaming, then used that knowledge to create a deeper, more meaningful life. Learn how in this interview by Robert Waggoner. When did you first learn about lucid dreaming? What did you think when you heard about it? (This might not apply if you were a…
By Alexandra Enns © 2018 My Reiki experiments reminded me of a former waking dream of mine I have dismissed in the past due to lack of time: To learn Japanese. After having familiarized myself with the complexity of the Japanese language, I decided to ask for an educational piece of advice first: An Educational…
By Karim © 2018 This was a series of dreams where I was invited by a dream version of an old friend of mine to an astral organization called the Psychic Police. They investigate what really happens related to waking life crimes and report the findings to a ‘Karmic council.’ Then a panel of judges…
Photo by Comfreak via Pixabay By Robert Waggoner © 2018 In dreams, the idea of ‘time’ becomes much more fluid. We may find ourselves sitting in our kindergarten classroom with our current co-workers, talking to a spaceman from the future. Here, various decades of experience occupy the same space, and the past, present, and future…
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 geralt via Pixabay by Maria Isabel Pita © 2018 “We can do nothing better than abandon ourselves to God.” i Saint Theresa of Avila called the Christian mystical practice of Contemplation the Prayer of Quiet. If you feel you are called to learn more about it, I wholeheartedly recommend The Cloud of Unknowing, With…
Photo by AdinaVoicu via Pixabay by Daniel Oldis © 2018 In 1964, at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California at San Francisco, Dr. Joe Kamiya was able to train sleeping subjects to recognize they were in REM dreaming and indicate this by pressing micro switches on their thumbs (other research has shown…
Photo by Vivolino via Pixabay by Jan Van Ysslestyne © 2018 Before I begin this article, I need to define the parameters of a “shamanic journey.” There are two competing views of how shamanism is defined in the field of anthropology. The first defines a shaman as a healer from indigenous animistic tribes. The other approach…