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Lucid Dreaming as Shamanic Technology

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Although definitions vary depending on your culture and the strength of your resistance towards the transpersonal, most call lucid dreaming the experience of dreaming with awareness, and sometimes dreaming with control, while the body sleeps. With … [Read more...] about Lucid Dreaming as Shamanic Technology

14 Tips for Getting Rid of Nightmares

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Sometimes the only dreams we remember are the ones we wish we could forget. Nightmares can be instructive, and most psychologists believe that they are a healthy part of life. But if you are plagued by repetitive nightmares and are losing sleep, … [Read more...] about 14 Tips for Getting Rid of Nightmares

How to Have More Lucid Dreams: Through Lucid Living

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Movies like Inception and Avatar have made lucid dreaming a household word. The buzz around the idea that we can wake up in our dreams ripples outwards, rocking our collective boat as more us realize that the world as we know it is malleable and … [Read more...] about How to Have More Lucid Dreams: Through Lucid Living

The Succubus Reconsidered: Sexuality in Sleep Paralysis

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The historic fears of succubi and incubi must be reconsidered in light of contemporary psychology.  As the medical community disregarded the narratives of sleep paralysis until David Hufford’s ground-breaking work in the 1970s, we would be making the … [Read more...] about The Succubus Reconsidered: Sexuality in Sleep Paralysis

Exploring the Void in Lucid Dreaming

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Since I was a child, I have had conscious dream experiences that take place in immense, spacious realms devoid of light or objects.  Sometimes these spaces are truly voids and my own dream body does not exist.  Other times, these spaces become filled … [Read more...] about Exploring the Void in Lucid Dreaming