Thursday, 06. October 2005
Lucid Dreaming / Luzides Träumen

There is nothing inherently difficult to understand about the concept of lucid dreaming: as stated in the introduction, lucid dreaming is simply dreaming while being aware you are dreaming. You can think of lucid dreaming as being conscious while dreaming. If, by chance, during a dream it suddenly dawns on you that you are dreaming, then you have experienced a lucid dream, regardless of whether you have been able to attain control of your dream.

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"Psyches Dream" by Josephine Wall

Lucid dreaming is usually induced by some sort of cue—something that indicates to the person that what he or she is experiencing is a dream, and not reality. Cues, however, are not necessary for becoming lucid: sometimes people spontaneously become lucid without noticing anything strange or typical of dreams. Lucid dreaming is a very simple concept but for most it will take patience and determination to achieve.


Lucid Dreaming by Dream Views (English)
Information on lucid dreaming, controlling dreams, the stages of sleep, dream recall, dream signs, and more. It is written to be easily understood by those just starting out; the information and techniques provided are also beneficial for those who already have some ability.


How have I taken pictures in my dream, hoping that upon awakening my dream was somehow saved... Wouldn't it be marvellous to have a machine that could make one's dreams visible?
Dreams are an individual experience. You can talk about your dreams, you can write them down, or draw them, but you are the only one that was truly there.
Some dream in color, smell, sound and taste. Others in black and white. But there are also people that don't dream at all.
At least that is what they say. Because everybody dreams. Only not everybody remembers them.

Lucid Dreaming: Dream & know it! by LD4all. (English)
Very good! But visit this Site with Firefox - script errors in IE


How can I have Precognitive Lucid Dreams?

When you have some successful experience with Shared Lucid Dreaming you can give Precognitive Lucid Dreams a try. Intent is also an important key to have Precognitive Lucid Dreams. When you lie in bed trying to fall asleep you need to program this intent to have a Precognitive Dream, and when your Dream starts do you have to recall that intent. You should give yourself appropriate affirmations while you are waiting for the hypnagogic imagery to start. When the dream starts do you need to check your level of consciousness. Do all the tests and make sure your logical mind is working ...

Lucid Dreaming Dreams FAQ How To by Brain Mind Research. (English)


Good reading, devices and books can be found at The Lucidity Institute. Website of Dr. Stephen LaBerge. (English)

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"Temple of Dreams" by Garrett Perman


Wenn Menschen in ihren Träumen wissen, dass sie träumen, und dadurch das Geschehen des Traums selbst bestimmen, dann spricht man von einem Klartraum oder auch luzidem Traum.
Wie viele Menschen können Klarträumen? Kann man das Klarträumen erlernen? Was kann man in seinen Klarträumen alles machen? Um die Frage: "kann man das Klarträumen erlernen?" vorwegzunehmen: Viele Klarträumer/innen erleben ihre Klarträume spontan, es gibt aber auch verschiedene Techniken, um das Klarträumen zu erlernen. Eine vielversprechende Methode verbirgt sich hinter dem Link "Power-Napping".

Der Klartraum von Daniel Erlacher, Universität Heidelberg. (German)

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"The Sleeping Snow White", Hans Makart

In den "Online-Experimenten im Klartraum" stellen wir interessierten Klarträumerinnen und Klarträumern Aufgaben, die sie in ihren Träumen ausführen sollen. Die Teilnehmenden senden ihre Ergebnisse über ein Internetformular an uns zurück und wir analysieren die Daten und fassen die Resultate zusammen. Die neuen Erkenntnisse über das Klarträumen werden auf klartraum.de veröffentlicht.

Online-Experimenten im Klartraum ebenfalls von von Daniel Erlacher, Universität Heidelberg. (German)

English Version: In each online "experiment in lucid dreaming" we invite lucid dreamers to conduct a lucid-dreaming experiment at home. The participants submit their results by using an internet form, and we analyze the data. The findings will be published on luciddreaming.de, so all participants will be able to read the results soon.


Ein Klartraum ist ein Traum, in dem der Träumer sich bewusst ist, dass er träumt und nach eigenem Entschluss handelnd in das Traumgeschehen eingreifen kann.
Im Gegensatz zu Tagträumen, Tagtraumphantasien, imaginativen Tagtraumtechniken wie dem Katathymen Bilderleben, dem Autogenen Training oder der Hypnose findet der Klartraum während des Schlafes und nicht im Wachzustand statt.
58% der Bevölkerung haben mindestens 1x im Leben spontan einen luziden Traum. 21% haben sogar mindestens einen Klartraum pro Monat, sind sich aber meistens dieses speziellen Phänomens und der damit verbundenen Erfahrungsmöglichkeiten nicht bewusst.

Für Experimentierfreudige und an veränderten Bewusstseinszuständen Interessierte: Klarträumen / Luzides Träumen von Steve Ebright, Neuropsychologe, Zürich. (German)

Paul Tholey (1937 - 1998) war Gestaltpsychologe und war Professor am Institut für Psychologie der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main und später Professor für Sportpsychologie an der Technischen Universität Braunschweig. Seit 1959 untersuchte er das Phänomen des Klartraumes. Er stiess darauf, als er nachprüfen wollte, ob Träume, wie öfters behauptet wird, nicht in Farbe sind.

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"Daydream" by Pino


Paul Tholey (1937 - 1998) was a gestalt psychologist and professor at the Psychological Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and later professor for sports psychology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, both in Germany. He began studying the phenomenon of lucid dreaming in 1959 and was led to it in an attempt to prove whether dreams are in color (it has been commonly maintained that they are not).

Paul Tholey und der Klartraum (German Version)
Paul Tholey and the Lucid Dream (English Version)
Category: Dreams & Sleep |




Milky Seas

A few days ago by BBC News:

Mariners over the centuries have reported surreal, nocturnal displays of glowing sea surfaces stretching outwards to the horizon.
Little is known about these "milky seas" other than that they are probably caused by luminous bacteria.
But the first satellite detection of this strange phenomenon in the Indian Ocean may now aid future research.

'Milky seas' detected from space (English)

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Today in the News:

Mariners have long told of rare nighttime events in which the ocean glows intensely as far as the eye can see in all directions.
Fictionally, such a "milky sea" is encountered by the Nautilus in Jules Verne classic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
Scientists don't have a good handle what's going on. But satellite sensors have now provided the first pictures of a milky sea and given new hope to learning more about the elusive events.


"The problem with the bacteria hypothesis is that an extremely high concentration of bacteria must exist before they begin to produce light," Miller told LiveScience. "But what could possibly support the occurrence of such a large population?"

"But there could be other areas we simply don't know about yet," Miller said. "In fact, we're already beginning to receive feedback from additional witnesses of milky seas. Some of these accounts occurred in regions we had not thought to look before, and we're currently working to find matches with the satellite data."

Satellite images confirm mystery glow in ocean by LiveScience via MSNBC. (English)
Category: Mysteries & Enigmas | News & Stories |




Extraterrestrial Civilizations

The chances are there's life out there, but any messages could be thousands of years old and indecipherable. Roger Highfield reports.

Aliens are probably common. Because there are billions of trillions of stars in the cosmos, many astronomers think it would be highly improbable for Earth to be the only rock to harbour life.
Whether ET is intelligent is still hotly debated. But no one doubts that the receipt of a signal from another civilisation would be Earth-shattering. "It would surely be the greatest discovery of all time, eclipsing the findings of Newton, Dawin and Einstein combined," says Prof Paul Davies, a British cosmologist from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University.

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"The knowledge that we are not alone would affect people's psyche, and totally transform our world view," he said during a visit to Britain last week. "The mere fact alone would be disruptive. But imagine if we got some serious information from ET. Then all bets are off about what our future would be."

The greatest discovery of all time by The Telegraph (English)


UPDATE 13.10.05 @12.20 Uhr

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Experts say that all the searches are not yet a success because earth dwellers do not know for sure what they need to look for. An official from the Russian Academy of Sciences Special Astrophysical Observatory says radio-telescopes of the Observatory have intercepted lots of signals, the origin of which is not clear. "It is not ruled out that they are the result of activity of some other civilization," he adds.


Solar system's unusual structure suggests existence of extraterrestrial civilizations by Pravda. (English)


UPDATE 18.10.05 @ 12.17 Uhr

Does alien life exist? This is one of the most fascinating questions in the whole of science. I’m hopeful that we’ll learn the answer by the end of this century.
In earlier centuries, many believed that the Moon and Mars were inhabited. The science fiction of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells popularised the idea of alien life. We’re less optimistic about Mars than our forebears were 100 years ago. There is certainly nothing there like the “Martians” of popular fiction.

Earth to aliens: we haven't had a signal yet. Could you try again? by The Times. (English)

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Elsewhere:

How many technically advanced civilizations exist in our galaxy? With this essay by Steven Soter, Scientist-in-Residence in the Center for Ancient Studies at New York University, Astrobiology Magazine initiates the first in a series of 'Gedanken', or thought, experiments - musings by noted scientists on scientific mysteries in a series of "what if" scenarios.

SETI and the Cosmic Quarantine Hypothesis by Astrobiology Magazine. (English)
Category: News & Stories | Ufo's & Aliens |


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