Personal Development for Smart People^TM

StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #10
Guest podcaster: Erin Pavlina
This podcast addresses the fascinating subject of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to retain full conscious awareness while you dream. And best of all, this one is conducted by my wife Erin, who first taught me how to have lucid dreams when […]

Last night during a 20-minute midnight nap, I had a lucid dream.  This is the fourth one I’ve experienced since starting polyphasic sleep 64 days ago.  It started off as a regular dream, and then at some point I realized I was carrying a gargoyle, which seemed odd to me.
I asked myself, “What the heck […]

I’ve had some further developments regarding my polyphasic sleep experiment, so I figured an update would be in order.
Lucid Dreaming. On Monday night I had another lucid dream during a nap I took just after midnight. This one wasn’t as vivid or as long as the first, but I consider it a significant development because […]

I had made a note on my calendar to write a polyphasic sleep experiment update this morning, so here goes…
Today I’m beginning my 18th day on polyphasic sleep. I’ve been able to do a lot more testing and tweaking over the past week, and overall I’ve been very pleased with my progress.
Flexibility. I’ve […]

A couple days ago, I saw a post about polyphasic sleep on LifeHack.org. Since then I’ve been emailed about this topic as well, probably because I’ve written previously about becoming an early riser.
Polyphasic sleep involves taking multiple short sleep periods throughout the day instead of getting all your sleep in one long chunk. A popular […]

On Monday night I had another lucid dream. This one happened within the first 30 minutes of going to sleep, which means shorter dream cycles and less vivid dream worlds compared to dreams that occur later at night.
Some people had asked me about eating in a lucid dream, and I’d never given it much […]

Last night I had an interesting lucid dream. Lucid dreaming means that you become consciously aware that you’re dreaming. It’s like waking up within your dreams. Everything becomes more vivid and you feel just as awake and aware as you do in your waking world. In fact, sometimes it can feel […]

In my last post, I mentioned that I believe there’s some kind of linkage between thought and reality that bypasses direct action. In this post I’d like to clarify what I mean by that and why I believe this.
First of all, recognize that this is a field in which we cannot apply the Scientific […]