Lucid Dreaming and Non-Duality

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 14, 2011  |  No Comments

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, check out the annual Science and Nonduality Conference in San Rafael, CA on October 19-23.
This is a special year, as several founding lucid dream researchers—including Stephen LaBerge—are kicking off the event with a one day pre-conference workshop “Lucid dreaming, Consciousness and Non-duality.” This workshop is really a once-in-a-lifetime [...]

Ecstasy and Descent in Lucid Dreaming

Posted by Ryan Hurd on August 19, 2011  |  17 Comments

Lucid dreaming is a practice that can take us into the realm of soul and spirit. But while we may hope for ecstatic experiences in our dreams, sometimes a different sort of scene arrives: one that tests our resolve, and leads us into dark places and emotional challenges. This is not a failure of the [...]

Co-creating the Dream: the Five Star Method of Dream Analysis

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 5, 2010  |  3 Comments

(This is a guest post by psychotherapist G. Scott Sparrow. Image by h.koppdelaney)

I have spoken and written about how cocreative dream theory transforms the way we think of dreams, but I have devoted just as much time to developing a dreamwork methodology based on the theory, which is surprisingly easy to learn and to use. While I began developing this method over 35 years ago, only in the last decade has it has matured into a systematic dream work approach, which has been called the FiveStar Method (FSM).

A Marriage of Lucid Dreaming and Traditional Dream Analysis

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 30, 2010  |  4 Comments

This is guest post by psychotherapist and author Scott Sparrow.

Lucid Dreaming and Christianity: Entering the Light

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 8, 2009  |  10 Comments

The loudest voices of the lucid dreaming movement cite pleasure, power, and fulfilling fantasies as among the benefits of becoming more aware in our dreams.  Unfortunately this popular expression has added fuel to the smoldering and historic distrust of dreams by many contemporary Christians, who are told that dreams can only be temptations of the [...]

Dream ReLiving: An Advanced Lucid Dreaming Practice

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 22, 2009  |  10 Comments

I’d like to share an advanced lucid dreaming technique taught by Scott Sparrow, a psychotherapist who played a major role in the beginning of the modern lucid dreaming movement.   Dreams often give us gifts, but sometimes as lucid dreamers we ironically lose our lucidity about the value of the dream’s spontaneous gift.  This technique [...]