Visitation dreams: When the Veil between Worlds is Thin

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 29, 2009  |  17 Comments

With Halloween on its way, it’s high time to take a look at visitation dreams, or dreams we have of the departed.

EcoDreaming: How Nature Speaks in our Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on August 10, 2009  |  10 Comments

“God sleeps in stone, breathes in plants, dreams in animals, and awakens in man”  – Hindu Proverb

Sleep Paralysis and Spirits

Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 25, 2008  |  20 Comments

Are spirits real, or are they just irrational stories meant to explain things that science now explains better? This is the way the question of spirits is framed by many. According to many recent polls, belief in ghosts in the West hovers around 60%, and one British poll found that more people believe in [...]

Big Dreams & Archetypal Visions

Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 14, 2008  |  6 Comments

Big Dreams are usually discussed in the popular media as dreams we remember for the rest of our lives. These could include emotionally intense dreams, powerful dream journeys, and visitation dreams.
However, the “dreams we remember for the rest of our life” are not the Big Dreams that contemporary dream researchers have demarked, but rather [...]

Halloween Dreams and the Celtic Otherworld

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 31, 2008  |  3 Comments

Through Halloween, the castrated remnants of the Celtic influence on Western culture play out through communal rituals: of giving gifts to strangers, protecting the house with carved gourds that resemble spirits, and dressing in costumes to disguise ourselves after nightfall as a wandering ghost.
But we are also culturally predisposed to dream darkly, or at least [...]

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 [...]