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10/07/2025

Meeting with Grandfather
Ginelli

I found myself in a room where my late grandfather was sitting. Overcome with pure, overflowing joy, I exclaimed, "Oh, Grandpa, is that you?!" He was smiling so warmly that my soul felt lighter. Instantly realizing it was a dream, for some reason, instead of asking him the most important questions, I decided to give him a playful test. We were sitting across from each other, and I took his hands. "Grandpa, what's your name?" — I asked. He, laughing heartily, replied, "You're asking me my name?" "Yes!" — I happily confirmed.

Then the realization came: I needed to stay in the dream to enjoy this moment longer! I began frantically feeling his face, and he continued to laugh joyfully, clearly amused by my actions. Suddenly, I thought: "Why am I touching him?.." — and started feeling the cabinet next to me.

While I was trying to remember what I wanted to ask, I became disoriented, and this wonderful, vivid dream dissolved into an ordinary one.

Read about other lucid dreams tonight in the LucidMe app—available for download on Apple and Google:
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09/07/2025

Teleported to a Girl
Yasnovidets

I felt myself lifted into the air. Hovered weightlessly for a bit, then landed and got up from the bed. Just to be sure, I looked back at the bed—my body wasn’t there. But oddly, my pillow floated up and dropped into a slightly different position, as if it had adjusted itself.

I walked around the room. It looked like a hotel room. I took a look around, then went to the door. I thought I should do something—set an intention, choose where to go, and open the door. I figured I’d teleport to a female friend. Standing by the door, I focused on the intention, opened it—and walked into another room. There she was, lying down. She had been asleep but woke up as I entered. We exchanged a few words, some sexual thoughts came to mind—and then I woke up.

Read about other lucid dreams tonight in the LucidMe app—available for download on Apple and Google:
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08/07/2025

Shapeshifting into a Shark
Ilia.Semenov

WBTB. I found myself outside, landing on a waterfront promenade. The sea stretched out before me. It was still twilight. I took a running start and leapt above the water, intending to fly—but I floated down like a feather and sank into the sea. Deep.

I checked whether I could breathe underwater. All good. But it was dark—almost nothing was visible. I thought, if I’m underwater, it makes more sense to move like a fish—a shark. I started speeding up, pressed my legs together, and began swaying them side to side. Arms at my sides. At some point, I felt myself growing larger, bulkier. My speed increased.

Something pulled me upward without effort. It felt like my dorsal fin had broken the surface. I turned toward the shore and swam. I could see people on the beach—my vision was like that of a submarine periscope. As I got closer, they began screaming and fleeing in panic. When I reached the beach, it was already deserted. I stepped out—as a human again.

Read about other lucid dreams tonight in the LucidMe app—available for download on Apple and Google:
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08/07/2025

A Laboratory for Experimenting with the Self

According to researcher Jieyin Yu, lucid dreams are a true laboratory for inner experimentation. The brain trains itself, runs simulations, and generates new versions of the self. It’s a space where familiar ideas about identity are broken down, restructured, and transformed into something new. Yu didn’t conduct experiments, however. His reflections are entirely theoretical.

Like on a stage, there are different “actors” inside the mind. These are logic, emotion, vision, and so on. In dreams, they begin to interact—arguing, cooperating, supporting one another. This gives us a powerful opportunity to understand ourselves more deeply. What matters most is the degree of internal coherence within the dream. The more aligned our sensations, thoughts, and perceptions are, the more vivid and lucid the experience becomes. The dynamic between these “actors” enables rich, multifaceted experiences, and lucidity itself arises from the brain’s spontaneous “selection” of the most fitting storyline within the dream.

Dreams help us make discoveries. During sleep, the brain finds solutions to problems that might have never occurred to the person while awake. The phenomenon known as déjà vu may also be a “hello” from the dream world—a flashback to a forgotten nighttime scene. Other ideas are also relevant here. For example, lucid dreams could serve as a training ground for artificial intelligence. The idea is to teach machines how to improvise and adapt to changing conditions just as the dreaming mind does.

What do you think of this theory?

The preprint of the article was published in June 2025 on SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5284827

07/07/2025

Interface Test and Flying with Sprites
realm_escapist

I dreamed I was on a trip with family, sleeping on an incredibly uncomfortable couch. At some point, I started questioning where I was—how I even got there. I began to shift around, found my cat, and started spinning around her. That’s how, within the dream, I managed to separate from my body.

I immediately went to the balcony. A night city stretched out in front of me. I jumped, intending to fly—at first I just fell and fell, but right before hitting the pavement, I caught the flight.

I found myself in a city, not far from a marketplace. Suddenly it was daytime. The first thing I tried was to summon an interface of myself on the palm of my hand. No matter how hard I focused, I couldn’t do it. Then I saw a mirror, looked into it, saw an old woman, switched it back to my own reflection, and kept moving. At the same time, I tried to create an energy sphere between my palms and run it along my neck. The sphere came out weak.

At one point, I flew again and saw a column of men coming down a hill. I flew just above them, very low—and to my surprise, they started flying after me. I asked one of them, “How is this possible? Why are you flying?” He said they’d been able to fly for a long time. Then he added that I felt very dense to him, like I was physically there. I said, “Well, I’m asleep, just so you know.” I asked if he was dreaming too. He replied something I couldn’t quite catch. I said, “Sorry, I don’t understand you—my perception interface is glitching.” He replied, “Well, then I guess it’s not meant to be,” and veered off in another direction.

I entered a building. There was a restroom on the first floor. I went upstairs and saw a hallway lined with offices, and a cork bulletin board on the wall. I tried the interface summoning technique again—if not for myself, then at least for some object. I picked up one of the flyers, and no matter how much I focused, how clearly I set the intention, no interface appeared.

Then I saw a man in the hallway selling snakes. I walked past him toward a window to jump out—and right then, the mask’s wake-up cue pulled me out.

Read about other lucid dreams tonight in the LucidMe app—available for download on Apple and Google:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/phaser-lucid-dreaming-tools/id907469483
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06/07/2025

Lucid Dreaming: Control or Spiritual Awakening?

Tibetan dream yoga has given modern lucid dreamers many of their most popular techniques. But how similar are these two systems, really? Indian researcher Mannat Jagia argues that they are fundamentally different in both their nature and purpose. In her analysis—framed through Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Lathe of Heaven—she suggests that dreams offer insights into the behavior of characters, their inner conflicts, and the deeper meaning of the story.

The novel’s protagonist has a rare gift: his dreams alter reality. He tries to rid himself of this power but ends up in the care of a psychiatrist who, rather than treating him, begins using his dreams to “improve” the world. But the psychiatrist’s good intentions have disastrous consequences, including epidemics, an alien invasion, and the erasure of individuality. The main character uses his power with caution, which contrasts with the doctor’s manipulation of dreams for the sake of social reform. This tension reflects the divide between the Western approach to lucid dreaming—which is focused on control—and Tibetan dream yoga—which aims at spiritual awakening.

Tibetan dream yoga does not treat dreams as tools but as expressions of the mind that should be observed and understood. At its core is the practice of Shamatha meditation, which calms the mind and fosters awareness. Dream yoga leads to deep psychological transformation and self-knowledge, and this path is reflected in the protagonist’s journey as he moves from fear of his own abilities to conscious engagement with the dreamlike nature of reality.

Do you see Tibetan dream yoga and lucid dreaming as the same practice or as two entirely different things?

The presentation was delivered in May 2025 at the International Conference on Research and Innovations:https://shikshansanshodhan.researchculturesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/ICRI-MAY-2025-MAIN-FILE-SS-min.pdf =16

06/07/2025

05/07/2025

A Philosophical Model of Lucid Dreaming

American philosopher Devin Bostick argues that Lucid dreaming can be structured as a mathematical model. The author is not directly involved with the subject of lucid dreams and has not conducted experiments; he is more of an advocate for abstract reasoning. He promotes his CODES model, which represents the world as a system of patterns that govern everything from artificial intelligence to lucid dreaming.

Imagine a radio. In a normal dream, we catch random snippets of phrases and music, but nothing is coherent. In waking life, we are tuned to a clear frequency; we hear a distinct program and know what is happening. In a lucid dream, we suddenly realize that we are sitting at the console of this radio in the dream—we can switch stations, adjust the volume, and even create our own broadcasts. The CODES model is an instruction manual for our consciousness that is designed to tune the system ("radio") to the correct frequency so we can think clearly and control the situation.

The CODES system incorporates several key concepts:

1. Consciousness tuning—If it is clear, we are well aware of ourselves and the world. If it is poor, we are confused and have a poor understanding of what is happening.

2. Reality gate—This is like a filter that checks how well our thoughts correspond to reality. If we see an elephant in the room, the "filter" says, "This cannot be!" In a lucid dream, this filter is slightly weakened, so we can see incredible things and not be surprised.

3. Echo (feedback)—Our thoughts generate other thoughts, and our actions have consequences. In a lucid dream, we can "hear the echo" of our thoughts and actions, which allows us to control the dream.

It is important to understand that, for now, these are abstract arguments. The author is merely speculating about how this could be used in practice. For example, a special program based on artificial intelligence could analyze EEG data, track states of sleep, recognize imagery from dreams, and help the person make the necessary tuning in order to control the plot.

What do you think? Can philosophers bring practical benefits to the field of lucid dreaming?

The preprint of the article was published in June 2025 on PhilPapers: https://philpapers.org/rec/BOSLTS

05/07/2025

Waking Life: An Anime Textbook on Lucid Dreaming

Waking Life isn’t just an animated film about lucid dreaming—it’s a textbook disguised as anime and fiction. Its protagonist, who is unnamed and has no backstory, drifts in and out of dreams and is unable to tell what’s real. He wanders through streets, listens to people, joins in conversations, and gradually realizes he’s inside a dream. There’s no traditional plot, but there is movement. We follow him through false awakenings, philosophical monologues, and his growing awareness that he’s stuck. Then, one day, he meets a lucid dreamer.

This oneironaut—a true dream traveler—tells him that lucidity in dreams is the same as lucidity in life. You have to unite logic and imagination. The moment you realize you’re dreaming, you gain a choice. In the film, it’s framed as a formula: if you combine your waking rational mind with the infinite possibilities of dreams, you can do anything. The protagonist listens and begins to learn. He tries a reality check as he attempts to turn on a light and watches text change on signs. And he realizes that he’s dreaming. But what then? The ending is deliberately ambiguous. Because awakening isn’t a scene—it’s a process.

Lucid dream elements in the film:

1. False awakenings. The protagonist wakes up repeatedly, only to find himself in yet another dream.
2. Reality checks. He tries to flip a light switch, looks at clocks, and reads signs. Everything warps and falls apart.
3. The oneironaut as a guide. One character directly explains how to gain lucidity and control in dreams. It’s nearly a tutorial—woven into the narrative.

Have you seen the film? Have you used any of its insights in your own practice?

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04/07/2025

Consciousness Skill
SEKIRO

A new skill has emerged. At some point during a phase state experience, I shed my human form along with its energy body and moved purely as consciousness without a body. Moving was easy—without resistance or gravity. After flying to a specific location, I reconstituted a body for myself.

Read about other lucid dreams tonight in the LucidMe app—available for download on Apple and Google:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/phaser-lucid-dreaming-tools/id907469483
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phaser

04/07/2025

How Can You Program a Lucid Dream in VR?

Imagine stepping into a dream as if it were a video game—only it’s a game that you get to program it in advance. Scientists from the US, Australia, and Spain have set out to use virtual reality as a tool for inducing lucid dreams, aiming to make them more meaningful and therapeutically rich. The project is led by Daniel Morris, and the research team includes well-known lucid dream researchers Karen Konkoly and Ken Paller.

Four experienced lucid dreamers participated in two sessions inside a custom-designed VR environment created to enhance feelings of connection, both with others and with the world as a whole. Afterward, participants slept in a sleep lab, where sounds from the VR experience were replayed while they were in REM sleep. The participants’ brain activity was tracked via polysomnography, and they signaled the onset of lucidity through specific eye and breathing movements. Upon waking, they gave detailed post-dream interviews.

Three of the four participants reported having lucid dreams that included elements from the VR session. Notably, all participants described a heightened sense of connection and compassion. Some even reported increased sensitivity to smells and physical sensations while awake. The researchers believe this fusion of VR and lucid dreaming opens new possibilities for psychotherapy—especially for treating nightmares and trauma. Specifically, VR can be used to craft specific imagery and emotional contexts that can later be deepened and reinterpreted within the lucid dream state.

Have you ever found yourself in a lucid dream inspired by a VR experience, video game, film, or book?

The preprint of the article was published in June 2025 on OSF: https://osf.io/ra6mt/

03/07/2025

Infrared Vision
D.A._Shevchenko

After waking up, I decided to try to get into a phase state. I closed my eyes. A nose check convinced me that I was asleep. Looking at objects, I wondered why it wasn't possible like that in reality. The lines on my palms were very clear. Then I put my palm to my ear—like I was making a phone call. I heard dial tones. A female voice answered me: "Hello. This is the operator speaking. Please go ahead." I asked, "Where did people come from?" The answer: "You were created." I asked, "Who created us?" In response, I heard something like a chuckle—I just understood that someone was smiling there, on the other end. And she asked, "Why do you want to know this?" And there was another meaning in that question. She was kind of telling me: "You're not really interested in this, are you? You're only asking this to tell your friends in the real world, because they asked you this question."

I took my hand away from my ear and decided to go outside. I decided to walk through the wall. But I couldn't. The more I strained, the less the wall yielded to me. Then I relaxed my body. And, as if going limp, I passed through the wall and the window bars.

Going outside, I looked at the sky and thought that I needed to fly as high as possible. I started to fly, but it didn't work. I was surrounded by very tall birch trunks—without branches, without leaves. Bare trunks, and they wouldn't let me fly. I scratched my arm on them—or rather, scraped the skin off my arm. I felt pain. Then I heard a voice: "Why do you want to go upwards?" I said that I wanted to rise as high as possible and say the phrase "show me the world as it really looks." They replied: "Come down to earth."

I stopped trying to fly and just came down. Then they changed my vision. It was like infrared vision—different, of course. But that word is closest to the description. And they told me: "This is how you should see the world. Then you don't distinguish between the desert and the oasis. Then you don't see the difference between beautiful and ugly. Your vision creates desires. If you saw the world like this, everything would be the same to you."

Read about other lucid dreams tonight in the LucidMe app—available for download on Apple and Google:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/phaser-lucid-dreaming-tools/id907469483
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phaser