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10 Ways to Prevent Sleep Paralysis

By Ryan Hurd

If you’ve ever woke up and realized you can’t move, or you find yourself sat upon by some foul hag or monster with bad teeth and worse breath, you’ve experienced sleep paralysis. Many sufferers stay up all night to prevent another terrifying episode. … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Prevent Sleep Paralysis

Filed Under: sleep paralysis Tagged With: ghost oppression, night visitors, preventing sleep paralysis, sleep paralysis

Do dreams have meaning? A quick tour of the dreaming brain

By Ryan Hurd

Sigmund Freud is considered the father of dream science, even though most of his dream theory is largely discredited today. But from the get-go Freud assumed that dreaming was an expression of the mind-brain system, a premise still widely accepted by … [Read more...] about Do dreams have meaning? A quick tour of the dreaming brain

Filed Under: Dream Interpretation, Theories of Dreaming Tagged With: Dream Interpretation, dream science, dreaming brain, meaning of dreams

The Healing Power of Lucid Dreams

By Ryan Hurd

Can lucid dreaming quicken physical healing? Can you use your dreams to scan for illness in the body? And what are the best ways to apply the skill of self-awareness in dreams for facing your fears and revitalizing your spirit? These are the … [Read more...] about The Healing Power of Lucid Dreams

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health, Lucid Dreaming Tagged With: healing dreams, health warning dreams, Lucid Dreaming, Robert Waggoner, shamanism

Binaural Beats for Lucid Dreaming: is it just Pseudoscience?

By Ryan Hurd

Many people use audio tracks to induce binaural beats in the brain. This effect is called brain entrainment, and there’s some pretty solid research behind it. Unfortunately, the research behind using binaural beats to increase lucid dreaming is not … [Read more...] about Binaural Beats for Lucid Dreaming: is it just Pseudoscience?

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming, Technology Tagged With: binaural beats, brain entrainment, brainwave entrainment, GAMMA waves, Lucid Dreaming, meditation, theta waves

3 Techniques for Transforming Sleep Paralysis into a Lucid Dream

By Ryan Hurd

Many readers have asked me about specific tactics for turning a sleep paralysis attack into a lucid dream. Because isolated sleep paralysis happens during REM at sleep onset, we're only a hair's breadth away from losing the paralysis sensations and … [Read more...] about 3 Techniques for Transforming Sleep Paralysis into a Lucid Dream

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming, sleep paralysis Tagged With: astral projection, conscious dreams, Lucid Dreaming, sleep paralysis, stephen laberge

Archaeodreaming: lucid dreaming as a tool for exploring sacred sites

By Ryan Hurd

In the late 1990s, I trained as a field archaeologist. For the better part of a decade, I was part of a merry crew that roamed the forests and mountains of the US, surveying for archaeological sites and excavating them. My work took me from the … [Read more...] about Archaeodreaming: lucid dreaming as a tool for exploring sacred sites

Filed Under: Dream & Sleep Research, Lucid Dreaming Tagged With: Anthropology of Consciousness, Lucid Dreaming, Ometepe Island, petroglyphs, sacred sites

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