What if bacteria are conscious? New research suggests all life experiences awareness through unique lenses—and humans can ...

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.

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

The Monroe Institute claims its meditations, which have also been used by the US military, help people access different ...

Neuroscientist Matthew Sacchet is revealing how mastering meditation can not only enable transcendental states of bliss, but ...

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 ...

Scientists have gradually shifted their stance on lucid dreams (LD) - the ability to know that you are dreaming and even controlling your fate within that dream state. Many were initially skeptical ...

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 ...

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 ...