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If at university or at work you are looking for a topic for an academic paper, then you can look for patterns in the results of our survey of almost a thousand people on the streets of Moscow in 2019. This data is legitimate, uploaded to Mendeley and has already been used in various publications.

It was the world’s first survey in which people were simultaneously asked about sleep duration, dream frequency, lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, false awakenings, and out-of-body experiences. As you can imagine, you can find many unique patterns.

The database contains 981 questionnaires and 29 columns of data with explanations (without personal data).

What has already been found and published: general distribution of phase phenomena, correlation of phase phenomena, correlation of phase phenomena with the recommended duration of sleep, female predisposition to certain phase states.

Download the Mendeley database: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/k4rbndp3fx/ (“Survey on lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, out-of-body experiences, and false awakening”)

Remember to cite the source correctly!

P.S. Open the database in statistical programs or text editors, as exel incorrectly formats the data.

What if lucid dreamers were to imagine that the space around them is the real physical world? Would this affect the lucidity of their sleep perception? These are the questions Russian researchers M. Raduga, Z. Zhunusova and A. Shashkov from the Phase Research Center set out to answer.

152 volunteers from “Project Elijah” were asked to enter the phase state and imagine that the space around them was the real physical world. They were then asked to report whether and how this affected the lucidity of their dream. 51% of participants achieved more vivid conscious dreams and more realistic sensations. 23% of them reached hyperrealism: the lucidity of their sensations was higher than after awakening.

More often than not, practitioners struggle with low lucidity of perception in lucid dreams, which makes it difficult to complete research tasks or achieve practical goals within the phase. Perhaps the results of the experiment will provide a new clue to understanding the techniques for maintaining and deepening lucid dreams. Moreover, this constitutes another step towards a more detailed understanding of phase tools and techniques.

The study was published in the October 2020 issue of the International Journal of Dream Research: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/71168

We publish results from first ever experiment, in which 151 volunteers tried to transfer pain from lucid dreams into wakefulness. The research findings will go toward developing new form of pill-free pain management.

151 volunteers were instructed to enter a lucid dream, and there to picture themselves experiencing pain in their arms, following which they were required to wake up immediately. Of the participants, 74% achieved pain during lucid dreaming and 21% felt pain even after awakening. The study was conducted at Project Elijah, a Phase Research Center branch devoted to the investigation of lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, out-of-body experiences, etc. It was published in the peer-reviewed journal Dreaming, 30(3), 246–256. Authors: M.Raduga, Z.Zhunusova, A.Shashkov, & N.Sevcenko.

As the study’s lead author Michael Raduga explained, “the fact that a dreamer could induce pain consciously, without the presence of a physical cause, and then transfer it into a real, physical sensation indicates that the source of pain is the human brain itself and it can therefore be controlled through our consciousness. Furthermore, the psycho-physiological connection found between dreams and wakefulness could lead to new treatments for pain relief. Our study provides hope for people living with chronic pain, because the results may lead to the development of new, revolutionary types of pain management, totally free of pharmaceuticals.”

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