Dream Research and Lucid Dreaming Links

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 27, 2008  |  No Comments

The blogroll was getting a little long in the tooth so I moved all of my links over to this dream resources page. My analytics are telling me that few people are clicking away from the blogroll anyways, which confirms the opinions of many experts that blogrolls are not effective when clumped into a [...]

New Feature on Dream Studies: Book Reviews

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 23, 2008  |  No Comments

I just published my first book review on Dream Studies, hopefully the first of many more to come. This expands one of my primary goals on this site, to provide readers with access to excellent consciousness studies and dream studies material that can be otherwise hard to find on the web.
After all, when you [...]

Kierkegaard for 2008

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 22, 2008  |  No Comments

I try not to be political on this blog, but I am an American currently subjected to absurd campaign overdrive for the upcoming presidential election. I”m convinced: a vote for Kiekegaard is a vote for a sustainable metaphysical framework. Now that’s real change.

(and my apologies to the French.)

REM is not the Man Holding Us Down

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 19, 2008  |  2 Comments

It’s been roughly 54 years since a young graduate student discovered and named REM sleep, which is commonly known as the “dream state.” While it is true that dreaming can occur in all of the sleep states (as cognition, mental imagery, and uncanny kinesthetics), it is REM that grants us the long dramatic [...]

Lucidipedia Looking for Bloggers

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 11, 2008  |  No Comments

Just discovered a new lucid dreaming wiki called Lucidipedia. They provide some great resources for lucid dreaming beginners, as well as an opportunity for more experienced dreamers to edit articles and become a part of the conversation. They also are looking for beginner lucid dreamers to blog for them while they take Lucidipedia’s [...]

Dreaming as Shamanic Archaeology

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 3, 2008  |  2 Comments

Just found an interesting article by Dr. Ron Masa about his practice of shamanic dreamwork. He tells a story about a women who discovered through her dreams a generations-old trauma that has been passed down through her father’s lineage.
Many psychologists have suggested that deep family-of-origin issues can be seen to manifest in our dreams, [...]