04/15/2026
Transformation into Animals and Gender Change in Lucid Dreams
We’ve published a new paper exploring the remarkable flexibility of bodily perception in phase states, a phenomenon familiar to many practitioners. In these states, the brain can generate entirely new body parts (such as tails or wings) that feel completely natural, as if they’ve always been there.
Experiments like these help us better understand the nature of the self and its connection to the body. As phase states become more accessible, this may become one of the most compelling applications of the phenomenon.
Original in IJoDR https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/947
More details in The Debrief https://thedebrief.org/lucid-dreaming-could-allow-people-to-experience-other-genders-or-even-other-life-forms-new-research-suggests/
REMspace would like to thank the co-authors (Elena Drøm, A. Nav Popenko, Zh. Zhunusuva) for their contributions, as well as all participants of Project Elijah who took part in the experiment.
A new peer-reviewed study suggests some lucid dreamers may be able to experience "dream-body transformation" into animals, or even another gender.