Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 20, 2008 | No Comments
The journey West – No, I”m not talking about death. I mean the move back to California. I’ll be on the road for the next two weeks, making my way across the US, my dreamy little caravan of one.
So may these next two weeks treat you well, and may your dreams haunt you [...]
Filed Under: Hearsay
Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
I”m having a hard time watching the news about the calamities in China and Myanmar. As of right now, there are 12000 people buried alive in the Sichuan Province, awaiting rescue. The numbers dead in both countries are impossible to comprehend. How can we, as consumers of news, deal with this information [...]
Tags:compassion, Myanmar flood, Sichuan earthquake
Filed Under: Consciousness & Health
Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 13, 2008 | No Comments
Continuing with the theme of sleep deprivation, here’s a new article from Science Daily about the collegiate rites of passage into our sleepless culture. College kids are lampooned as being slackers, but they are actually one of the most sleep deprived segments of Western culture.
Ha – I”m amused that I”m writing this post at 11pm, [...]
Tags:sleep deprivation
Filed Under: Sleep Research
Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 10, 2008 | 2 Comments
I missed this excellent podcast about contemporary nightmare research when it was released last fall. NPR interviews New York Times science journalist Natalie Angier and dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley about the whole mess: theories about the cause of nightmares, common nightmares, as well as how to deal.
Here’s the link for NPR”s Anatomy of [...]
Tags:Dream & Sleep Research, Dream Interpretation, Nightmares & Dream Terrors
Filed Under: Nightmares & Dream Terrors
Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 6, 2008 | 5 Comments
I finally saw the movie “The Good Night,” a romantic comedy about a man who discovers lucid dreaming as a great escape from his boring life. I really enjoyed the movie, and recommend it for all dreamers, if for no other reason to see how the mass media is viewing LD.
I promise – [...]
Tags:lucid dreams, lucid nightmares
Filed Under: Dreamy Movies
Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 5, 2008 | No Comments
I”m happy to announce that the Dream Institute of Northern California is now online, making it easier than ever to see what innovative dream events are planned in the center of the American dream scene: Berkeley, CA.
If you live in the Bay Area, make contact and drop by for one of the Culture Dreaming sessions [...]
Tags:Dream Interpretation, dreams
Filed Under: Working with Dreams
