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Could Science Ever Hack Our Dreams?

Posted by Ryan Hurd on June 6, 2013 | 10 Comments

I’m compelled to share this video by biologists Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown, founders of ASAP science.. it’s just a fun review of what we know, and what we don’t, about the science of dreams.
Plus it explains the results of recent research into tapping other people’s dreams, a la Inception. Enjoy!

Filed Under: Dreamy Movies, Theories of Dreaming

Apparently I corresponded with Jared Loughner before he was a mass murderer

Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 9, 2012 | 14 Comments

I got the weirdest phone call last night. The editor of Gawker, A.J. Daulerio, contacted me, requesting information on lucid dreaming. He said he’s doing a new piece on lucid dreaming and Jared Loughner, who was sentenced yesterday with life in prison without parole for his deadly rampage in Tuscon, AZ in January 2011.
Turns out, [...]

Filed Under: Dreams & Media, Lucid Dreaming

Nexus of Nightmares: Fuseli, Sleep Paralysis, and Horror’s Master Image

Posted by Matt Cardin on October 31, 2012 | 4 Comments

A guest post by author Matt Cardin. When I first started experiencing sleep paralysis attacks accompanied by visionary assaults from a shadowy demonic presence in the early 1990s, I was already a long-time fan and student of supernatural horror. I had grown up enthralled by horror stories, novels, and movies, as well as by nonfiction [...]

Filed Under: Dreamy Book Reviews, sleep paralysis

6 new dream books for 2012

Posted by Ryan Hurd on August 30, 2012 | 12 Comments

It’s hard to keep on top of all the excellent dream and consciousness studies books coming out. I routinely — for better or worse — read five or six books at a time. I keep them in separate rooms of the house, so I always have something to read when I sit down. It’s kind [...]

Filed Under: Dreamy Book Reviews, Working with Dreams

Book Review: Communing with the Gods by Charles Laughlin

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 25, 2012 | 4 Comments

Whenever I have had a spare moment for the past three months, I’ve been sneaking peaks at Charles Laughlin’s new book Communing with the gods: Consciousness, culture and the dreaming brain. It’s a tome, over 500 pages long, and because of its girth I have approached the volume each time with some hesitancy… and a [...]

Video Chat about Lucid Immersion with Anne Hill of DreamTalk Radio

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 19, 2012 | 8 Comments

Anne Hill from DreamTalk Radio just posted our talk about lucid dreaming on the youtubes. It’s a lively 20 minute discussion about my new book project Lucid Immersion Blueprint. Anne is a veteran in the dream studies community and an author herself of the book What to do when dreams go bad: a practical guide [...]

Filed Under: Dreams & Media, Lucid Dreaming