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About
My name is Ryan Dungan Hurd and The Dream Studies Portal is my baby - a blend of dream research, consciousness studies, and deep culture critique. I started this blog in 2007 to fill a need on the web for reliable and expert information about contemporary dream science, especially lucid dreaming, nightmares, and the so-called altered states of consciousness. I enjoy using my expertise in consciousness studies to point people to the resources they need.
Am I objective? Hardly, but I try to make my biases clear. Principally, I am interested in pursuing a more radical materialism for both the sciences and the arts.
I have a MA in Consciousness Studies and a Certificate of Dream Studies from John F. Kennedy University … so I know what the world looks like when my head is in the clouds. I also have a BA degree specializing in archaeology, so I know what empiricism looks like on the ground. I spent the better part of a decade excavating ruins in North America before turning inward to the riches of the mind, which are infinitely more valuable than any buried treasure. Less back aches this way too.
My background has taught me that both views, empiricism and phenomenology, are critical for a more integral view of Western knowledge to emerge. We need the earth and the sky, and everything in between.
Contact me: ryan@dreamstudies.org