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Lucid Dreaming as Shamanic Technology

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 14, 2010 | 18 Comments

Although definitions vary depending on your culture and the strength of your resistance towards the transpersonal, most call lucid dreaming the experience of dreaming with awareness, and sometimes dreaming with control, while the body sleeps. With the buzz around Inception, there have been more news articles about dream research in the last month than I’ve [...]

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Inception: A Lucid Dreamer’s Review

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 19, 2010 | 13 Comments

Inception came out over the weekend and I was not disappointed. The movie felt like a dizzy sci-fi lucid dream and I stumbled out of the theater afterward like I has just crawled out of a hall of mirrors. Don’t worry, there’s no big spoilers in this review.

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Inception and Mutual Lucid Dreaming

Posted by Ryan Hurd on June 10, 2010 | 12 Comments

I’m usually not so wrapped up in the release of summer blockbuster movies, but I have to admit I’m enthused for Inception, Chris Nolan’s latest film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. And I want to share my joy for being interviewed by Empire Magazine on the topic of how endangered we really are by dream-hacking super spies.

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Inception: Dream Researchers Expose Project Somnacin

Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 17, 2010 | 8 Comments

I’ve been following the movie Inception, due out in theaters this summer. The movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, involves a pseudo-government dream research team who can access people’s dreams, and perhaps construct their reality too a la the Matrix. About two weeks ago, a video showed up on youtube, showing a rough 6 minute cut of [...]