Whereabouts

Upcoming Lectures

Workshop: Lucid Dreaming and Extraordinary States of Consciousness. Iowa City, Iowa. August 20, 2010. More info soon.

Interviews & Press

DreamTalk Radio with Anne Hill: Ryan Hurd on Sleep Paralysis. May 20, 2010.

East Bay Express: Before I wake: Ryan Hurd wants us to remember our dreams. September 29, 2009.

Psychology Today: Field of Dreams. September 23, 2009

Huffington Post: What you don’t know about Dreams. Aug 12, 2009.

San Francisco Examiner:  A Conversation with Ryan Hurd. Questions by Wendy Iraheta, LA Dream Interpretation Examiner, July 2009.

Dreamspeak: An interview with Ryan Hurd. (download pdf) Questions by Robert Waggoner of the Lucid Dream Exchange, Summer 2007.

Some Choice Articles Elsewhere on the InterWeb

Spiritual Sleep Paralysis: Aliens, Angels and Allies.  (pdf)  Lucid Dream Exchange, March 2010.

What Parts of the Brain Produces Dreams? Livestrong, February 2010.

Lucid Dreaming and the Adventurer Traveler. Brave New Traveler, February 2010.

What if We Treat Life like a Dream? Goodlife Zen, August 2009.

The Science of Lucid Dreaming: a brief history and new findings. (pdf) Lucid Dream Exchange, March 2009.

Ancestral Knowledge in Lucid Dreams. Electric Dreams, 13(4).

Past Lectures and Presentations

How to Win Fiends and Influence Demons: Sleep Paralysis as a Portal to Extraordinary Dreaming. Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Asheville, NC, June 27, 2010.

Awake While Dreaming: the History of Lucid Dreaming. Invited lecture at University of California at Berkeley.  Get the podcast here (and scroll down to lecture 21).

Transforming Sleep Paralysis into a Lucid Dream Journey. At the PsiberDreaming Conference. Online presentation and discussion goes live October 3, 2009.

Enhance Your Dream Life. Free talk at the Fremont Public Library.  Fremont, CA. October 3, 2009

Lucid Nightmares: the Dark Side of Self-Awareness in Dreams. Recording here. Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Chicago, IL, June 27, 2009.

Secret History of Lucid Dreaming. Invited lecture at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Symposium on “Lucid Dreaming, Religion, and Cognitive Science,” Berkeley, CA, May 7, 2009.

The Construction of Self from the Void of Imageless Lucid Dreaming. PsiberDreaming Conference, Oct 2, 2008.

Lucid dreaming: Participating in our Inner-Wilderness. Annual Conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Montreal, July 10, 2008.

Nature Observation as a Field Technique: The Relevancy of the Ecological Self for Anthropologists. Annual Proceedings for the Society of the Anthropology of Consciousness, Yale University, March 21, 2008.

Dreaming the Apocalypse. Open Forum at the Dream Institute, Berkeley, CA, September 2007.

Descend into Darkness, Spiral into Light: a phenomenology of lucid dreaming. Thesis Presentation, John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, Ca, September 2007.

Rock Art and Dreams: Explorations into Process-Oriented Archaeology on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. Annual Proceedings of the Anthropology of Consciousness, San Diego, CA, April 2007.

Rock art and dreams. Dream Institute, Berkeley, CA, May 2006.

Dreaming of Rock Art on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. Symposium on “Dreams and Consciousness” chaired by Kelly Bulkeley. International Study of Dreams Conference, Bridgewater, MA, June 2006.

Lucid Dream Evolutions. Symposium on “Transformation and Education” chaired by Fariba Bogzaran. International Study of Dreams Conference, Bridgewater, MA, June 2006.

The Culture of Lucid Dreaming. Panel on “Lucid Dreaming” chaired by Stanley Krippner. ASD Regional Conference, Pleasant Hill, CA, October 2004.