Sylvan Muldoon was born in the United States in 1903. He is considered to be the American pioneer in the study of lucid dreaming, although he used the esoteric term astral. He inadvertently woke up in lucid dreaming at the age of 12, where he saw a cord connecting his perceived body to his real body. Muldoon first thought that he was dying during the experience, although he eventually concluded that this was an instance of “astral projection”. He had repeated experience with the phenomenon, but was still unable to become an advanced practitioner due to a lack of full control over the practice.

After coordinating efforts with Hereward Carrington, the famous American investigator of the unknown, the two published the sensational, jointly authored book The Projection of the Astral Body in 1929. The authors published two other books: The Case for Astral Projection (1936) and The Phenomena of Astral Projection (1951).

Despite a large serving of esotericism, Muldoon’s books, (especially the first one) contain a lot of helpful, practical information and explanation of the most diverse phenomena that can occur during lucid dreaming. However, Muldoon is considered to be the greatest popularizer of irrational esoteric terms and theories, which subsequently became quite widespread.

Sylvan Muldoon passed away in 1971.

For the first time in history, we conducted direct electrical stimulation of the motor cortex of the brain during REM sleep, lucid dreams, and sleep paralysis. The results open up fantastic prospects for future dream control technologies.

When I was a teenager, I accidentally heard a track of my favorite musical band in a lucid dream (the phase state). The sound was incredibly high quality and detailed. I have never heard such high-quality acoustics in real life. The sound without any distortion appeared directly in my head, striking with its fantastic spectrum. But that was not all…

Our survey’s results has been published in an international scientific journal (Medical Hypotheses, M.Raduga, O.Kuyava, N.Shevchenko)

The whole my life I was totally sure that the lunar phase had no effect on lucid dreaming practice. I thought it was very stupid to blame the Moon, when only you could make mistakes. Now I’m ready change my mind, but this story is much more complicated than you may expect. Before we start, don’t forget that I use the phase state term to unite all dissociative REM-sleep phenomena, like lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, and out-of-body experience. Looking from physiology, it’s all almost the same, but may look a bit different in real practice.

There a lot of fans of this topic. Thousands of people around the world are literally obsessed with the phase, that’s why you can find so many popular movies and books based on this topic. Nothing unexpected – it’s one of the most amazing things you can experience in your life. Period! But when you try to do this, sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s hard, and sometimes it’s almost impossible for people. The whole my life I was totally sure that our success strictly depended only on three major factors: our skills, sleep duration, and our natural predisposition. It looks reasonable, but sometimes you do everything perfect, but it gets much harder than usually or doesn’t work at all. Many explain it by the Lunar phase. Is it legit?