This is a network for lucid dreamers and scientists to share research information and lucid dream experiences, connect for future studies, and expand the knowledge of the lucid dream phenomenon.
About the cool phenomenon of hypnagogia (the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep)…how to experience it, how to stay in it, how to experiment with it (“start napping with your arm raised in the air”,) and how to use hypnopompia (morning linger) to remember your dreams (“…putting[…]
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“Hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep in humans: the hypnagogic state of consciousness, during the onset of sleep. Mental phenomena that occur during this “threshold consciousness” phase include lucid thought, lucid dreaming, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis…. …Sights Among the more commonly reported,[9][10] and more thoroughly researched, sensory features of hypnagogia are phosphenes which can manifest as seemingly random speckles,[…]
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THE CONNECTION BETWEEN LSD AND DREAMS “Dreamlike effects of LSD on waking imagery in humans depend on serotonin 2A receptor activation… …LSD produced mental imagery similar to dreaming, primarily via activation of the 5-HT2A receptor and in relation to loss of self-boundaries and cognitive control… ⚡️ …Future psychopharmacological studies should[…]
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“A New Measure of Hallucinatory States and a Discussion of REM Sleep Dreaming as a Virtual Laboratory for the Rehearsal of Embodied Cognition” “The current study proposes a new, tighter measure of these hallucinatory states: Sleep onset, REM sleep, and non-REM sleep are shown to differ with regard to (a)[…]
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