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Not about lucid dreaming, but dreams in general. Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a short article by Alice Gregory, a colleague of Chris French, about sleep paralysis and "exploding head syndrome" (not as alarming as it sounds). The tone is in line with French's quoted opinion that sleep paralysis can explain "a huge number of [spontaneous] paranormal accounts":
https://theconversation.com/what-lies-be...hers-93534 Obviously this is a plug for Gregory's new book about the science of sleep, published a week ago, entitled "Nodding Off": https://bloomsbury.com/uk/nodding-off-9781472946188/
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Courtesy of the Daily Grail, Science Alert reports a study finding that the anti-Alzheimer's drug galantamine increases the frequency of lucid dreams by as much as a factor of three (from 14% to 42%), when used by those with high dream recall and an interest in lucid dreaming, in conjunction with the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams technique:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-...mer-s-drug Here is the full paper at PLOS ONE: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article...ne.0201246
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(2018-08-22, 05:14 PM)Chris Wrote: Courtesy of the Daily Grail, Science Alert reports a study finding that the anti-Alzheimer's drug galantamine increases the frequency of lucid dreams by as much as a factor of three (from 14% to 42%), when used by those with high dream recall and an interest in lucid dreaming, in conjunction with the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams technique: I use Galantamine, its highly effective. Have had hours long lucid and out of body experiences with it. I wake up quite tired afterwards though.
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Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's a new paper in Frontiers in Psychology:
Lucid Dreaming, Nightmares, and Sleep Paralysis: Associations With Reality Testing Deficits and Paranormal Experience/Belief Kenneth G. Drinkwater, Andrew Denovan and Neil Dagnall Abstract: Focusing on lucid dreaming, this paper examined relationships between dissociated experiences related to rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (lucid dreaming, nightmares, and sleep paralysis), reality testing, and paranormal experiences/beliefs. The study comprised a UK-based online sample of 455 respondents (110 males, 345 females, Mean age = 34.46 years, SD = 15.70), who had all previously experienced lucid dreaming. Respondents completed established self-report measures assessing control within lucid dreaming, experience and frequency of nightmares, incidence of sleep paralysis, proneness to reality testing deficits (Inventory of Personality Organization subscale, IPO-RT), subjective experience of receptive psi and life after death (paranormal experience), and paranormal belief. Analysis comprised tests of correlational and predictive relationships between sleep-related outcomes, IPO-RT scores, and paranormal measures. Significant positive correlations between sleep and paranormal measures were weak. Paranormal measures related differentially to sleep indices. Paranormal experience correlated with lucid dreaming, nightmares, and sleep paralysis, whereas paranormal belief related only to nightmares and sleep paralysis. IPO-RT correlated positively with all paranormal and sleep-related measures. Within the IPO-RT, the Auditory and Visual Hallucinations sub-factor demonstrated the strongest positive associations with sleep measures. Structural equation modeling indicated that Auditory and Visual Hallucinations significantly positively predicted dissociated experiences related to REM sleep, while paranormal experience did not. However, paranormal experience was a significant predictor when analysis controlled for Auditory and Visual Hallucinations. The moderate positive association between these variables explained this effect. Findings indicated that self-generated, productive cognitive-processes (as encompassed by Auditory and Visual Hallucinations) played a significant role in conscious control and awareness of lucid dreaming, and related dissociative sleep states (sleep paralysis and nightmares). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....00471/full There is also an "Opinion Article" in the same journal by the same authors, entitled "Dark Triad Traits and Sleep-Related Constructs: An Opinion Piece" - though I didn't find it easy to understand from it what their opinion was: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....00505/full
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Here's a nice article today on lucid dreaming from Australia's public broadcaster, the ABC, by Len Gordon:
What are lucid dreams, and how does your brain become aware that it's dreaming? Quote:Because experiences in the dream can feel real to the brain and body, lucid dreaming is used by some people as a source of creativity and growth. Quote:For anyone wanting to start lucid dreaming, Dr Aspy primarily recommends improving your ability to remember your dreams.
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Navigating the Out-of-Body ~ Lucid Dream Continuum
By Samantha Lee Treasure for her Zombies in PJs blog on Sep 2, 2017. (It's an older article but I happened to see its title and thought it might be interesting, which it was.) Quote:However, as time went on, the transition process would seem more streamlined or I would skip it entirely; leaving the body became easier or immediate. I had now become somewhat familiar with each of these states, so I could normally guess which it was. But without the characteristics of the transition state as a reference point, and because there seemed to be some overlap in the experiences, I would at times be unsure whether I was in an OBE or a LD. Quote:Sometimes what seemed to be a full-blown OBE would, given enough time, start to develop the qualities of an LD. I had intentionally switched between the two states before, but when it happened spontaneously it seemed to be more gradual. This was especially interesting to me because the closest I've had to a real OBE occurred from what was probably a dream state, although not strictly lucid simply because I was confused into thinking I was really awake. It seemed real because it began with the sense that I was in a state to potentially leave my body, so I tried the "roll your astral body out of your physical body" technique and it seemed to work. I'm pretty sure though that it was "just" a dream, because even though it started with a generally recognisable local physical environment as expected, after I flew out my window and started to explore, it very quickly became clear that this just wasn't my town. I can't remember how it ended, but it definitely wasn't with a return to the body - neither by "snapping" back nor any more gradual and gentle route. I think I just eventually woke up. That's another reason why I think it was a dreamt-up rather than real OBE. [P.S. The survey to which Samantha links in that blog post is no longer available on her site, but can be accessed via the Wayback Machine here. I haven't (yet?) read it]
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Mediums Who Reported Out-of-Body Experiences
By Mark Mahin on his Future and Cosmos blog on July 26, 2025. Quote:Gladys [Osborne Leonard] stated this: Quote:Another case of a female medium reporting an out-of-body experience can be read in the 1936 book 'Twixt Earth and Heaven by Annie Britain, which you can read here. On page 50 she states this: Quote:A wide variety of mysterious psychic phenomena were reported in connection with Frederica Hauffe, a visionary (dubbed the Seeress of Provost) born in 1801. In an 1845 work by the physician Justinus Kerner, we read about such phenomena. Hauffe reportedly did quite a lot of spirit seeing, so we can classify her as a medium. On the page here and the next one we read that she had out-of-body experiences (like manyothers):
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