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New Feature on Dream Studies: Book Reviews
I just published my first book review on Dream Studies, hopefully the first of many more to come. This expands one of my primary goals on this site, to provide readers with access to excellent consciousness studies and dream studies material that can be otherwise hard to find on the web.
After all, when you […]
Lucid Dreaming, Shamanism and the Paleolithic
I just uploaded a new essay about the deep history of lucid dreaming and its potential role in Paleolithic rock art.
There’s always a danger of projecting our ideas about dreams into the past, especially the deep past, but as archaeologist David Lewis-Williams has reminded, humans cannot refrain from dreaming. I take this a step […]
Ancient humans were slackers
Nature is about to publish a fantastic archaeological discovery. A cave site in South Africa has been excavated by archaeologists, revealing an ancient human encampment complete with cooked mussel shells, small stone tools, and some red ocre.
What makes this ensemble so incredible is that it has been dated to @ 160,000 years ago […]
Lucid Dreaming Interview
The Lucid Dream Exchange just published its quarterly edition, including a long interview of myself on the topic of lucid dreaming. I am grateful to editor Robert Waggoner for the opportunity, which allowed me to tell my story from my early childhood nightmares to my present day academic research. I’m looking forward […]