After all, when you do a google search on dreams you are likely to find a number of cheap ad-sense optimized webpages with bad dream interpretations that have nothing to do with contemporary research. I find this intolerable and I”m here to help separate the wheat from the chaff.

My first book review is Archaeologies of Consciousness by Gyrus. This is a slim, independently published collection of essays at the intersections of prehistory, altered states of consciousness, and participatory research.

If you are interested in shamanism’s potential role in the creation of the ancient megalithic sites and prehistoric rock art of the British Isles, you may find Gyrus’s approach refreshing and exciting. Dreams are but one of his inspirations for this original research.

Check out my review of Archaeologies of Consciousness.

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 further and suggest that our ancient ancestors were quite capable of incubating visionary states within their dreams.

Click here to read: The Prehistory of Lucid Dreaming.