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Lucid Dreaming

Sleep Paralysis and the Weird side of Spiritual Experience

By Ryan Hurd

Astral projection and lucid dreaming are having a moment!  Thanks to cult classic films like Inception and Waking Life, and to popular educators such as Jade Shaw (check out her documentary Insight Out if you haven’t yet), we have entered into the … [Read more...] about Sleep Paralysis and the Weird side of Spiritual Experience

Filed Under: sleep paralysis Tagged With: cocreative dream theory, David Hufford, Lucid Dreaming, mysterious tremendum, old hag, out of body experience, sleep paralysis, spiritual experience, succubus effect, visionary, wyrd

Healing our Cognitive Domestication with Lucid Living

By Ryan Hurd

Are you interested in lucid dreaming but frustrated about not having them often, or at all?  I've got good news and bad news. Let's start with the bad news: as the continuity hypothesis of dreaming predicts, our nighttime dreaming mirrors our daily … [Read more...] about Healing our Cognitive Domestication with Lucid Living

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming Tagged With: beverly d'urso, cognitive domestication, Daniel Quinn, Lucid Dreaming, lucid living, Noam Chomsky

Abduction encounters, sleep paralysis and the extraordinary

By Ryan Hurd

As I was recently cited in D.W. Pasulka's book Encounters: Experiences with nonhuman intelligences for my work with sleep paralysis, it's time for me to clarify my current position on the overlap between altered states of consciousness and … [Read more...] about Abduction encounters, sleep paralysis and the extraordinary

Filed Under: Hearsay Tagged With: abduction, alien abduction, aliens, encounters, Lucid Dreaming, out of body experience, Pasulka, sleep paralysis, UAP, UFO, Vallee, visionary experience

Dickens’ Christmas Ghosts and Lucid Encounters

By Ryan Hurd

This morning, Christmas Eve day, I noticed a holiday card on the coffee table. It was slightly crumpled and curled around the bottom as if it has been discarded for a while. I opened the card and gasped – it was signed by my grandmother, who died … [Read more...] about Dickens’ Christmas Ghosts and Lucid Encounters

Filed Under: Dreamy Book Reviews, sleep paralysis Tagged With: Brugada syndrome, Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, Christmas ghost, ghosts, hauntings, Lucid Dreaming, night-mares, Nightmares & Dream Terrors, sleep paralysis, supernatural assault

Dreaming of Fairies and Connecting to the Ecological Self

By Ryan Hurd

Not long ago, I was doing a nature meditation practice at my usual creek-side spot by the sycamore tree and became aware of the strong presence of a small spring that joins the creek. This mingling of waters became my meditation. Later, I found the … [Read more...] about Dreaming of Fairies and Connecting to the Ecological Self

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming Tagged With: ecological self, fairy dreams, integral archaeology, Lucid Dreaming, nature awareness, nature meditation

Lucidity is not the same as Dream Control

By Ryan Hurd

Despite the constant repetition in popular media that lucid dreaming is “controlling your dreams,” these two concepts are not the same. One can be lucid and not “in control” of either the dreambody or the dreaming environment, just as one can … [Read more...] about Lucidity is not the same as Dream Control

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming Tagged With: cocreation, dream control, Lucid Dreaming, meta-cognition, Scott Sparrow, self-development, stephen laberge

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