Jamila Suzanne Metal Ball/Bowl March 2012: about to enter into a lucid dream workshop and given the task to look for a reflective surface and see what happens. I had two dreams: one the first night where when I found the reflective surface and realized lucidity, I woke up. The second night is as…
By Mary Ziemer © 2013 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. —1 Corinthians 13:12, King James Version The word ‘lucidity’ implies ‘clarity’ but what if we also see the lucid state…
By Mary Ziemer © 2013 Beloved gaze in thine own heart The Holy tree is growing there…. —William Butler Yeats Yeats’ plea to his beloved—to gaze into her own heart and look upon the Holy tree growing there— echoes the call to the heart of the ‘Lucid Surrender’ experience. Like the roots of a…
By Mary Ziemer © 2014 Phony prophets stole the only light I knew, And the darkness softly screamed. Holy visions disappeared from my view, But the angels come back and laugh in my dreams, I wonder what it means. –Judee Sill, ‘Crayon Angels’ Now and again, ‘angels also come back to laugh in my…
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 © 2014 In a paper published February 10, 2014 in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, brain function of a healthy volunteer experiencing the sensation of being out of her body was analyzed. The 24 year old graduate student reported she had developed the ability for astral projection as…
By Josh Langley © 2014 For a long time I‘ve had a burning question about guidance and a strong desire to make contact with a guide of some sort. Whenever I asked to meet a guide in a lucid dream or OBE I‘d either get no response or I‘d wake up quickly and feel really…
By Dr. Clare Johnson © 2017 For me and many others, our first lucid dream lesson seemed a simple one — don‘t get too excited or the lucid dream may collapse. Within seconds of feeling far too much emotion while lucid, I could sense the coming collapse of the lucid dream. After a few more…
By Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. © 2015 Throughout recorded history, people have recounted experiences of encountering non-human beings, or even of finding themselves abducted by them. For most of this time people identified such beings as supernatural, for example, in Celtic countries specifically as the Sidhe (fairies), and more generically as spirits, demons, or gods. In…
By Arthur Gillard © 2015 Anamnesis is a science fiction web series about lucid dreaming based on an original short film of the same name. It has been getting a great deal of positive attention in the lucid dreaming community based on its accurate and realistic portrayal of lucid dreaming, as well as its compelling…
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…
