Office Culture Reconsiders the Siesta

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 30, 2008  |  2 Comments

Our culture is a sleep-deprived culture. While that is obvious to many, it is helpful every once in a while to call out the larger dynamic, the water we swim in.

Lucid Dreaming Radio and Dream Theater

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 29, 2008  |  3 Comments

Two great dream events to point you to today. The first is an interview with the editor of the Lucid Dream Exchange on Coast to Coast Radio. Veteran lucid dream educator Robert Waggoner provides a balanced history of lucid dreaming research, and then discusses the distinction between lucid dreams, control dreams, and precognitive [...]

Dreams Influenced by Smell

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 22, 2008  |  7 Comments

Here’s a great piece of dream research that just hit the wires:
In a study of 15 healthy German women, smells in the dreamer’s environment effected their dream content. Specifically, the smells (rotten eggs for some, and roses for the luckier subjects) boosted the negative or positive emotions of dreams.

September’s Moon Dreaming Post

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 17, 2008  |  2 Comments

Listen to Miles Davis’s classic Moon Dreams while you read!

Today, the day after the full moon, I looked back into the research on the Moon’s Effect on Dreams done by the College of Metaphysics in Missouri. When I first blogged about their lucid dreaming and moon proposal this past February, I was skeptical because [...]

Exploring Imageless Lucid Dreaming

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 16, 2008  |  10 Comments

Below is a segment from my paper on imageless lucid dreaming that I”m presenting next week as part of the online Psiber-Dreaming Conference. I use visual art to help describe these lucid spaces that are difficult to put words to.

India’s Courts Convict on Untested Brain Scan Technique

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 15, 2008  |  No Comments

According the New York Times, India’s courts have blasted into new territory this week by admitting brain imagery data to convict a suspect of a crime. The only problem is the method has not been verified by any scientific journal on the planet.
As a modern update to the lie detector test, The Brain Electrical [...]