The Sleep Cycle alarm clock is a bio-alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you when you are in the lightest sleep phase.
Playing video games before bedtime may give people an unusual level of awareness and control in their dreams, LiveScience has learned.
Journalistic interest notwithstanding, I am pursuing lucid dreaming for entertainment. To some neuroscientists, however, the phenomenon is of profound interest, and they are using lucid dreamers to explore some of the weirder aspects of the brain's behaviour during the dream state (see "Dream mysteries"). Their results are even shedding light on the way our brains produce our rich and complex conscious experience.
I’m William Ember, an author and explorer of Lucid Dreaming, Out of Body Experiences and Astral Projection. My main works on how to have and enjoy these experiences to the max is the Ultimate Astral Experience Course. The ILoveLucid blog is a central hub for insights and discussion of these topics, written and managed by yours truly. Enjoy!
People who undergo near death experiences often have profound and life changing experiences. It is as if the whole of their life has been put into focus and they can see relationships, experiences, and their hopes and dreams in a completely new light. Now Paul Schenk shows you how you can help clients experience some of the life-changing benefits of a near death experience without the life-threatening cardiovascular crisis. With full length annotated case transcripts, you will learn how to do this and explore the many other things you can do with hypnotically facilitated waking dreams.
Get High Now is an illustrated, mind-blowing magic carpet ride of more than 175 ways to alter human perception and consciousness without drugs or alcohol. Culled from science, physiology, spiritual practices, and the audio visual arts, these 'all natural' highs playfully and safely explore the mind-body connection to entertaining and illuminating effect. Accessible and well-researched, each entry introduces concepts such as lucid dreaming, optical and auditory illusions, controlled breathing, meditation, time compression, and physical and mental exercises, explaining the ways in which they affect our minds and bodies and how to do them. Readers follow the author and his 'HighLab' testing team through mind-bending and sometimes hilarious investigations, such as how to lull the mind into hallucinatory states with audio loops; why multiple bee stings lead to euphoric states; what cheeses to eat to induce psychedelic lucid dreams; how to control your breathing to create an out-of-body experience; and many more. Including solo, tandem, and group highs, Get High Now features hundreds of ways to calm or stimulate the senses and open new windows to experiencing the world.
You’ve just found the multimedia appendage of the historic and thrilling book, Get High Now—(Just Released!)—an illustrated, mind-blowing magic carpet ride of more than 175 ways to alter human perception and consciousness (without drugs or alcohol).
A study published last year in neurology journal Brain re-examined these experiences by deliberately triggering them by electrically stimulating the brain. The participants were all patients with epilepsy who were having neurosurgery to treat their otherwise untreatable seizures and the researchers, led by neurologist Jean-Pierre Vignal, specifically stimulated areas in the mesial [inner] temporal lobes.
B. Alan Wallace joins to us to compare and contrast two fantastic dream practices. One comes from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, going all the way back to India, with the yogi Naropa. This practice, called Dream Yoga, is a type of insight practice which utilizes the dream state in order to wake up. The other practice, called Lucid Dreaming, comes out of the pioneering research of Dr. Stephen LaBerge. Lucid dreaming breaks down the same goals that Dream Yoga aspires to, but into smaller and more attainable goals. It is also firmly grounded in the scientific method.
Another clip from the Italian documentary, this time an interview with Stephen LaBerge.
An Italian television interview with Beverly D'Urso, one of the founders of the Lucidity Institute.
Interview with the creator of 'Dreammask', a NovaDreamer type lucid dreaming induction device.
A short TechTV report on lucid dreaming and the Nova Dreamer mask invented by Dr. Stephen Laberge.
The Lucid Dream Machine is a pair of glasses that you wear while you are sleeping. About 4 hours into your sleep the AVR microcontroller pulse LEDs that shine through your eyelids. This half wakes you up. The flashing lights helps you become aware (in your sleep) that your are sleeping and dreaming, in doing so you become more likely to be able to control your dreams.
Welcome to Dream Views! If you're searching the Internet trying to find information on the still relatively-unknown topic of lucid dreaming (either for personal use or for research purposes), you've come to the right place!
Warren is an engaging field guide in these adventures, and The Head Trip will interest anyone curious about the black box of consciousness. In the interview below, he explains why “dreaming is bananas,” why we shouldn’t listen too seriously to the evolutionary psychologists’ Just-So stories, and why we should think more explicitly about our habits of mind.
Lucid Dreaming links on Google displayed in the timeline view.
Results for 'Lucid Dreaming' on Squidoo.
Hi there, my name is Tim. I am the founder of the Lucidipedia project and I'm glad you've discovered Lucidipedia.com. During my time as a lucid dreamer, I have come across many other lucid dreamers and do workshops on lucid dreaming at other universities in The Netherlands. Let me introduce you to the art of lucid dreaming.
Interview with Dr. Michael Katz - Editor of "Dream Yoga" and author "The White Dolphin" - What I want to do tonight, and then for the next few days and as long as I'm here, is to try to assist you all in developing your own dream practice, and what that means for each of you might be quite different. So this is a little bit of a, a kind of a training that I'll be trying to do to give some practical suggestions for working with your dreams, and hopefully it will be something valuable for you all.
The home page of Lucid Dream researcher Michael Katz.
A psychologist, former Yantra Yoga instructor, author, photographer, and long time student of contemporary masters of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon. He is best known as having authored the introduction and edited the popular book Dream yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu.
Rinpoche gives instructions for developing clarity within the sleep and dream states. He goes beyond the practices of lucid dreaming that have been popularized in the West, by presenting methods for guiding dream states that are part of a broader system for enhancing self-awareness called Dzogchen. In this tradition, the development of lucidity in the dream state is understood in the context of generating greater awareness for the ultimate purpose of attaining liberation.
From visions of a past life to glimpses of the future, history is full of accounts of unusual dreams. This fascinating book explores historical, scientific, and cross-cultural research on these sorts of extraordinary dreams, and offers practical suggestions on how to work with them-either individually or as a member of a dream group-to enhance one's intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health. Each chapter is devoted to a particular type of dream, and presents a summary of research data on their nature. Specific categories of dreams discussed include creative, lucid, out-of-body, pregnancy, healing, collective, telepathic, clairvoyant, precognitive, past-life, initiation, and spiritual visitation dreams, as well as dreams within dreams.
Sleeping, Dreaming, And Dying is an exploration of Consciousness with the Dalai Lama edited and narrated by Francisco Varela. Sleeping, Dreaming, And Dying is the account of an historic dialogue between leading Western scientists and one of the foremost representatives of Buddhism today, the Dalai Lama of Tibet. Revolving around the three key moments of consciousness of sleep, dreams, and death.
DISCREET REMINDER for medication, medical conditions, self-regulation, keeping focused, meetings, appointments, timing presentations, procedures, tests, parking, cooking, naps, laundry, timed voiding, pilots, service industry, and many other uses.
If you read any of my previous posts, you will see that I havn’t been particularly successful in the realm of LD. But, I have spent the last 14 or so years, reading, reserching and experimenting. After a lot of painstaking nights and moments of giving up and then, going back, I have finally had a LD. Hoorah for me! In fact I’ve had 3 LD in the past 2 weeks. And I’ve accomplished it by developing my own system. I’m thinking that if this system works for me, then it must be good.
Thought provokingly, Rock also addresses the phenomenon of lucid dreaming wherein the dreamer takes advantage of being in a self aware dream state for creative and recreational purposes. Likewise, she discusses some great advances made by the creative thinking and boundry removal possible while one is in a dream state.
Jeff Warren’s The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness is an entertaining tour with Warren as an enthusiastic and witty guide, who earnestly tries to figure it all out. Sometimes I laughed out loud, other times I tried to roll my eyes to the back of my head (an indicator of hypnotic capacity), and I wanted to check out many of the books and authors Warren consults along the way.
Millions of People Have Tried Lucid Dreaming and FAILED. WHY? Because There's a SECRET to Getting Started. I'm Going to Show You How to Master This AMAZING SKILL...
Another large list of resources for lucid dreaming and out of body experiences.
A new dreaming induction device based on the NovaDreamer it seems. Neither the site nor the description inspire much confidence in the product. Particularly, "Direct and be in your own Hollywood Movie".
Yeah, because I tend to have lucid dreams. I tend to go to sleep and wake up in the dream in the place I’m at. And then something happens. Now, that experience I had as a kid, of the faun coming from the armoire, was so startling because I didn’t know what a faun was at that age. I’d never seen a faun like that, it’s actually a peculiar design: it’s almost like the devil.
People who ate stilton blue cheese before bed have very vivid dreams. And a whole bunch of other funky results. His British accent makes if very difficult to take seriously.
When slipping into REM sleep, Dr. Levin said, “the whole brain changes.” “Neurochemically, it’s like the Fourth of July,” as cortical precincts shift colors in scanning images to indicate arousal or quiescence, he said, adding, “The limbic system becomes incredibly active, much more so than when you’re awake, which is why you’re emotionally on edge in dreams.”
The Kentucky researchers believe that NDEs are actually REM intrusions triggered in the brain by traumatic events like cardiac arrest. If this is true, then this means the experiences of some people following near-death are confusion from suddenly and unexpectedly entering a dream-like state.
Head Trip is an amazing book. Jeff Warren manages to be funny while packing in tons of fascinating science. Rather than sticking to conventional boundaries, Warren follows his own formidable curiosity, producing a book that is quirky, refreshing, and nothing short of groundbreaking.
Associated web site with the 'Head Trip' book.
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mymindonbooks. Review of an interesting new book by Jeff Warren where the author explores different states of consciousness including lucid dreams, meditation and other hypnagogic states.
A list of lucid dreaming books from a new book tracking site, Goodreads.
Suggested by Debbie at '
mymindonbooks.com'. An analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art.
Can Freud's theory of dreams hold up against modern neuroscience?
An incredible article about a neuroscientist who suffers from a stroke and analyzes himself throughout the entire event.
"When someone is sleep deprived we see greater sleep intensity, meaning greater brain activity during sleep; dreaming is definitely increased and likely more vivid," says neurologist Mark Mahowald.
Another blog about lucid dreaming techniques and experiences.
An interesting blog dedicated to dreaming. Interviews and thoughts.
The present study investigated the relationship between the required time for specific tasks (counting and performing squats) in lucid dreams and in the waking state.
The Hollywood angle on Lucid Dreaming.
A new movie is coming out about lucid dreaming, the NY Times declares it a trend.
All the books that Google can find on Lucid Dreaming.
The hypnagogic state, the transition from wakefulness into sleep, the mind can make connections between seemingly unconnected perceptions, thoughts and ideas. A 1923 article from Time Magazine.
The hypnagogic experience occurs between being awake and asleep, while the hypnopompic experience occurs as one is waking up--both experiences occur within the time period between sleep and waking (or vice versa).
The companion web site to the Advanced Lucid Dreaming web site.
Excellent list of books related to dream research and lucid dreaming.
In a study last year, Dr. Antrobus and City College graduate students linked the body’s circadian cycle and the singular level of brain activity in REM to the high emotionality of REM dreams.
Despite over four decades of research elucidating the neurophysiology of sleep (see Maquet et al., 2005 for a recent meta-analysis) there is currently no consensus about why we dream.
Gnosticweb teaches online courses in astral projection and dreaming.
A very low budget way to build a pair of dream goggles that uses swimming goggles and speaker wire.
An old interview with Stephen LaBerge from Omni magazine. The link not longer exists so this is from the Google Cache and messy to read.
A stripped down blog that seems to be directly lifted from the 'The Tibetan Book of Dream and Sleep'. No info on the author.
An index of lucid dreaming books from Danny's Reviews.
A dutch web site dedicated to promoting lucid dreaming particularly with psychologists.
A social networking site dedicated to sharing dream journal entries.
A book about lucid dreaming available on-line.
From the review: Dreamgates offers insights from cultures with strong dreaming traditions, insights which profoundly challenge the ruling paradigms of a culture that confuses the real with the physical
One person's narrative about his experiences with lucid dreaming.
A random list of lucid dreaming books.
Next to LeBarge's work, Godwin's book on lucid dreaming is the best resource I have found on the subject yet. Thoroughly researched with excellent insight and great design.
A book dedicated to supplements and their affect on Lucid Dreaming.
Ken Wilber with a very interesting EEG machine goes through different states of meditation and shows how they are recorded on the machine. He also talks about the brainwave state of a lucid dreamer.
Probably the most popular Lucid Dreaming community site on the internet.
A company that creates the 'Insight' CD that has Binaural Beats. Very professional site with not a lot of background on the company.
This sort of sites make me very suspect. Not a lot of original content and it seems very specifically targeted to hit search engine traffic and drive product sales.
An index of Lucid Dreaming blog links on Technorati
A list of lucid dream tags from Magnolia
Another list of article resources from ScienceBlogs
This Web site contains everything needed to conduct scientific studies of dream meaning using a system of content analysis.
A comprehensive list of dream related books from LibraryThing.
A fairly comprehensive list of books from Shelfari about Lucid Dreaming.
A book less about lucid dreaming and more about 'using' your dreams.
Very well reviewed book about the history of dreaming and current dream research.
A collection of chapters and lectures which provides a complete program of study and practice related to the awakening of the consciousness in the Internal Worlds. Every sincere person who practices the techniques included in this book can experience directly for themselves the realities beyond the physical world. Includes, for the first time in English, a complete reference to dream symbols and their meanings as explained by Samael Aun Weor.
This engrossing book tells the story behind the famed dream experiments at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center where mind-to-mind communication was put to the test. The research procedures are described in a reader-friendly manner, as is their statistical analysis. The many anecdotes and examples are fascinating in their own right; they will be welcomed by those who think that telepathy is possible and will challenge the scoffers. More important, this account demonstrates how science can examine unusual real-life experiences using both rigor and imagination.
As far as dream interpretation is concerned, I'd be surprised if a better book available than this. The authour recognizes that symbols will carry different meanings for different people. In dream dictionary books available on the market, the meanings of symbols can be contradictory if you check a few different books... so which one should you trust? If you have nearly drowned at some point in my life, water may carry a different meaning than "purity" or "life". If you have been attacked by a dog, a dog may not represent "companionship" or "loyalty". The authour guides readers through a very intensive process to help remember their dreams and create a personal dream dictionary. The intensive process involves working with various symbols from your own dreams, and interpreting these symbols according to the context of the whole dream and events in your life. The process requires a lot of dedication, but is very fun and fulfilling, and the more effort you devote to dreaming... the more dreams you will have.
Excellent article on Sleep Paralysis.
A pretty hardcore lucid dreaming mask.
This scientifically designed formulation features the phytonutrient galantamine for dream enhancement combined with Choline to support the neurotransmitters necessary for dream recall.
Rhythm napping is a effective technique that doesn't involve any mental skills or discipline. When I first began trying it, it was 80% effective to send me out of body over a two week testing period.
If you wake up at night, don't move, then fall asleep there is a good chance that you'll wake up again but not be able to move your body.
This Documentary DVD will cover the scientific, psychological, and spiritual aspects of lucid dreaming. Need to watch the trailer.
Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams.
A condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or, less often, shortly before falling asleep.
Susan Blackmore's essay on lucid dreaming.
The basic definition with some very good starting points.
Intellectual and author who was known for philosophical skepticism in particular that lucid dreaming is a hallucination
Entry for the highest proflie lucid dream researcher. His technique of signalling to a collaborator monitoring his EEG with agreed-upon eye movements during REM became the first published, scientifically-verified signal from a dreamer's mind to the outside world.
Celia Green talks about her books and the relationship between OBEs and Lucid Dreams
Stephen LeBarge paper scientifically proving the existence of lucid dreams
This is the web site for the mysterious NovaDreamer, it says a new version is coming soon.
Short article by Alan Worsley about creating a lucid dream machine with Keith Hearne. Good references at the bottom.
The Lucidity Institute's FAQ about technology, drugs, etc. Lots of good links to other resources.
Overview of lucid dreaming by Susan Blackmore from the Skeptical Enquirer.
Actigraphy provides a means for clinicians and researchers to measure sleep quality.
Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams.
Experiences of someone taking DMAE which gave them vitality and dreams.
