Lucidipedia

Lucidipedia is made possible by developers and friends who collaborate on making the phenomenon of lucid dreaming accessible to everyone. This page honors their friendship, expertise and faith in Lucidipedia. Thank you all very much!

Project history

College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Sometimes you have this urge inside to prove what you're capable of. Lucidipedia is not just a website, it's an idea. Written by Tim Post.

When I was seventeen, and was still at high school, I first discovered the existence of lucid dreaming by one of my best friends that time who told me about it. Although I could recall many lucid dreams from childhood, I didn't realize that they were something to intentionally induce and enjoy, let alone to be referred to as 'lucid dreams'. There were actually thousands of others practicing the techniques to become explorers of the dream world. It felt like I just woke up to world of infinite possibilities of creativity and personal growth. I remember the goosebumps running over my skin when I read several web pages to get to know the topic. Somehow, how strange as this may sound, it felt like I was naturally bound to the nature of it all. I don't know.

Deeply inspired I set out on inducing my first lucid dream. And with success. Within one week I had my first lucid dream like it was the greatest revelation in my life. I will never forget it. Very soon I learned to build my own website to introduce and educate others to learn lucid dreaming. In several years I had build about five websites (in Dutch) that gradually led to the idea of Lucidipedia. Why create my lucid dream website myself? There are lots more lucid dreamers out there who I would like to meet and would offer the means to share lucid dream experiences with others around the globe.

Lucidipedia's mission soon became more than just an idea. Because I study Educational Science Technology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands I was interested in other students that shared my passion in lucid dreaming and building on the ideas that I had for Lucidipedia. I organized some workshops and talks to introduce interested students to lucid dreaming and at the same time promote my ideas of Lucidipedia. After a month I had gathered a group of six students, a multi-disciplinary workgroup that combined the studies of Psychology, Educational Science and IT-engineering at our university together: Lucidipedia's developers. We proudly present Lucidipedia and hope you'll check out the significant upcoming upgrades in the near future!

Thank you for visiting Lucidipedia.

Tim Post, initiator

Personal stories of our developers

Tim Post (project leader, graphical designer, instructor)
Lucidipedia represents an idea of passion and expertise on the domains of Educational Science and Psychology. I think it's great to see how ambitious work groups can start from nothing but enthusiasm and some smart thinking. To ask ourselves: "What should the ultimate lucid dream website look like?" and work on it! It makes me wonder what else we are capable of. Hopefully you get a taste of the inspiration we feel when working on Lucidipedia. Feel free to contact us if you think you can contribute in any way.

Benjamin Wohl (software engineer)
When I first heard about lucid dreaming years ago, I was fascinated right away. But I could never keep the motivation high enough to become an experienced lucid dreamer. When I heard about Lucidipedia I just had to help. Basically this is my way to get motivated to practice lucid dreaming again and help other people who have the same problem. Although I could not help as a Chemical Engineer ;), web development is one of my hobbies and so 'Madcat' and I are responsible for programming Dreamjournal, implementing the Forum and the Wiki, etc.

Jakob Hummelen (marketeer)
Hi, I'm Jakob Hummelen. I study Psychology at the University of Twente. When I first encountered the phenomenon called Lucid Dreaming, I have to admit I was sceptic, I still am. This is in my (scientific) nature. However, I was interested in lucid dreaming since it's a very plausible phenomenon. Tim told me about the workgroup and I got enthusiastic. Helping to provide a new platform for education and research on lucid dreaming is a very exciting thing to do, with a great deal of potential. I hope that we can get a lot of people into the world of lucid dreaming in order to do more research!

Anneloes Post (graphical designer)
After studying Educational Science at the University of Twente, I decided to transfer to the Academy of Arts. My brother Tim asked me to contribute as an art work designer. I was very fund of the idea and decided to collaborate. This way, I was able to apply my acquired knowledge and learn the other group members at the time. At the end of the project I had gained more insights to what lucid dreaming is and look back at this project as a great experience!

Lieke Asma (psychologist)
My name is Lieke Asma, I study Psychology at the University of Twente. I met Tim, and meeting Tim includes meeting Lucidipedia, about two years ago. I like reading books about almost everything that has to do with people, so I was interested in the project immediately. I already read something about sleeping and dreaming earlier and decided to help build the Library of Lucidipedia. Still need to learn lucid dreaming myself, I only remember experiencing it when I was a child. Hopefully, this website will help people, like me, experience lucid dreaming and learn something more about themselves.

Steven Weerkamp (psychologist)
Why Lucidipedia? Simply because dreams are interesting. And Tim's enthusiasm is very catchy! It is interesting to have dreams, to remember them, to analyze them and especially to control them. My task for this project was interesting to me because in the future I want to be a therapist myself. During the project I was responsible for researching applications of lucid dreaming in therapies.

'Madcat' (software engineer)
I never heard of lucid dreaming before I met Tim. When he came with the idea of starting a website where everyone could learn the art of dreaming, I could not resist helping him with it because of my experience and background (which is Computer Science). Not to much later Dreamlab was born, which was a static website where the visitors didn't have much interaction with the website itself. Therefore Lucidipedia was created a year later, which was more "web 2.0". Benjamin took more the lead mainly because the lack of time I had and it was really fascinating how we worked together without even having seen each other for a few weeks. The design of Tim was also a nice addition and gave the website a nice touch. We all had a great time and it was good to see how we learned from each other.

Niek Rosens (psychologist)
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Friends

• Dennis Doubovski (software engineer support)
• Thomas Ziehmer (marketing support)
• Frank van Es (software engineer support)
• Plon Verhagen (project management support)
• Victor Spoormaker (spiritual support)
• Study Association Dimensie (marketing support)

Applications

Feel free to contact us if you feel you would like to join Lucidipedia's developers group. It is a great way to make a meaningful contribution to the lucid dream community. Make sure you have some initial ideas on how you would like to collaborate before you attempt contacting us. Of course all work done on Lucidipedia is completely voluntarily and we strive to keep it this way.