Whereabouts


Upcoming Lectures

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

Published

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

” Hurd, R. (2008). Nature Observation. Winds of Change: newsletter for members of the Windbridge Institute for applied research in human potential. Vo. 1, issue 1, Spring 2008.

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

” Hurd, Ryan Dungan (2006). Ancestral Knowledge in Lucid Dreams. Electric Dreams 13(4).

Past Lectures

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.

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.