Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations ...

A recent conversation on Reddit is all about an illustration from one of my books. It’s a diagram showing a 3D space with lots of different states of consciousness depicted as blobs floating in space.

You've probably heard about breathwork, which involves controlling your breathing to improve physical, mental and emotional health. But have you heard of Holotropic Breathwork? Also known as HB, it is ...

During a trip, language could become temporarily irrelevant, researchers say. That speechlessness may be linked to sensing ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness. The awareness of dreaming during a lucid ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much ...

Christof Koch, PhD, is a physicist who has made a career out of empirically studying consciousness. When Koch began to study consciousness 35 years ago, people thought it couldn’t be done by ...

According to LeDoux, the brain economizes by relying on habits and automatic responses, reserving the more energetically ...