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The Snooze Method for Remembering More Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 21, 2009 | 4 Comments

If you want to get on the fast track to remember more dreams, it’s important to start keeping a dream diary. Still, it can take a while before the dreams make it from slumberland to the waking world. The reason for this lag between intention and dream recall is that our memory system is not [...]

Filed Under: Working with Dreams

Lucid Dreaming: a Hybrid of REM and Waking Cognition

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 18, 2009 | 6 Comments

A study accepted in the journal Sleep last month (but not yet published) claims that lucid dreaming should be not be considered a REM dreaming phenomenon but rather a unique state of consciousness (Voss, et al., 2009). Poetically, the assertion that lucid dreaming has elements of waking consciousness and dreaming has been made for [...]

Filed Under: New Dream Studies

The Link Between Depression and Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 15, 2009 | 15 Comments

Sleep plays a major role in mood regulation; that’s a truism that is behind every mother’s call for “time to go to bed!” But while the links between dreams and depression are well documented, the role of dreams in maintaining mental health is still one of the most confusing components in the function of [...]

Filed Under: Dream & Sleep Research

PsiberDreaming Conference Coming up!

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments

There’s less than 2 weeks until the premiere Dreaming event on the web. I’m talking about the 2009 PsiberDreaming conference: a two week online conference that features over two dozen presentations from leaders in the fields of dream research and consciousness studies.
Keep in mind, this is not a boring academic conference, but an open forum [...]

Filed Under: New Dream Studies

What is Lucid Dreaming?

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 2, 2009 | 40 Comments

This is my final post on ways of working with dreams without a dang dream dictionary. Becoming a lucid dreamer is an advanced dream practice that is actually easy to learn. I’ve been leading up to this post because to start lucid dreaming you have to have good dream recall, know how to set a [...]