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Light switches, dreams of the future and synaesthesia
What do lucid dreaming, shamanism, Bengal tigers and the light switch effect have in common? In 1975, a young psychologist devised a pioneering experiment – one which provided the first scientific proof of lucid dreaming, where the dreamer ‘wakes up’ inside the dream...
Can lucid dreaming be dangerous?
Ten years ago, when lucid dreaming was less commonly known in the UK and Europe, I used to hear this question a lot when I spoke at conferences: Is lucid dreaming dangerous? My audiences in those days were an eclectic mix of academics, writers, dreamers and...
How to Empower Children through Lucid Dreaming
Deep Lucid Dreaming Interview Series In the first of this series of interviews with inspiring lucid dreamers, award-winning author Renee Frances shares her path into lucid dreaming and the story of how her daughter’s nightmares led her to write a children’s book on...
Opening the treasure chest in lucid dreams
How can lucid dreaming give us creative inspiration? Lucid dreaming is an amazing playground where our usual restrictive adult thinking dissolves because we are dreaming and in the dream state we are less inhibited, freer from fear and readier to take chances. Added...
Can lucid dreaming help us to die?
Can lucid dreaming prepare us for the dying process? People who are dying often report dreams of floating in white light or being surrounded by angels - dreams which offer peace and nourishment. In lucid dreaming, we are aware that we are dreaming, aware of our...
Help for traumatic nightmares? Psychological insights in lucid dreams
Imagine the worst event in your life returning to haunt you in your dreams. Imagine being afraid to go to sleep in case it happens again that night. For people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), horrific nightmares are common. These nightmares can be...
Lucid dreams in the dying process
Can lucid dreaming help people who are dying? Or those who have been bereaved? What can lucid dreaming teach us about death? The connection between lucid dreaming and death is nothing new: over a thousand years ago, Tibetan Buddhists developed an entire science around...
Improve skills, solve problems
Ever tried swimming through honey? Or slowing time down so you can practise a kick with great precision and focus? Or doing ‘impossible’ yoga poses? These are just a few of the amazing things athletes have done in their lucid dreams. And the best thing about it? When...
Time, space and physics in lucid dreams
In lucid dreams, time can be slowed down or speeded up. Lucid dreamers can float and fly. The laws of time and physics which apply to waking reality do not apply in the lucid dream world. Lucid dreamers also report entering wormholes, spiralling through dots of light,...
Lucid dream figures
Dream figures are just figments of the imagination, right? So it doesn’t matter how we treat them, and what they say is of no real interest. But is this really the case? It’s not that simple. Any experienced lucid dreamer will be able to tell you of a few (and usually...
The lucid dream body
How does it feel to be in the lucid dream body? I’m flying now, zooming up to slip and glide on the air currents which send warmth through me. I tingle from the hair roots to the tips of my toes. It’s effortless: pure freedom and lightness. I can see the stars and...
How to stay lucid
Never had I felt so absolutely well, so clear-brained, so divinely powerful, so inexpressibly free! The sensation was exquisite beyond words; but it lasted only a few moments, and I awoke. (Oliver Fox’s first lucid dream.) Why, after finally getting lucid in a...
