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Healing our Cognitive Domestication with Lucid Living
Are you interested in lucid dreaming but frustrated about not having them often, or at all? I've got good news and bad news. Let's start with the bad news: as the continuity hypothesis of dreaming predicts, our nighttime dreaming mirrors our daily scheming. We can’t expect fantastic self-aware … [Read More...] about Healing our Cognitive Domestication with Lucid Living
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A Beginner's Guide to Dream Studies. If you're new to this site, here is a list of my most popular content and core essays from the last few years.
Dickens’ Christmas Ghosts and Lucid Encounters
This morning, Christmas Eve day, I noticed a holiday card on the coffee table. It was slightly crumpled and curled around the bottom as if it has been discarded for a while. I opened the card and … [Read More...] about Dickens’ Christmas Ghosts and Lucid Encounters
From the Journals: Thoughts about Dream Interpretation
Recently I have been inspired by the work of writer Matt Cardin—who you should be reading if you're interested in creativity, horror and the divine. Matt also has lifted up the importance of personal … [Read More...] about From the Journals: Thoughts about Dream Interpretation
Abduction encounters, sleep paralysis and the extraordinary
As I was recently cited in D.W. Pasulka’s book Encounters: Experiences with nonhuman intelligences for my work with sleep paralysis, it’s time for me to clarify my current position on the overlap between altered states of consciousness and UAP/abduction encounters. Pasulka’s book is brilliant (although best read after her first work on the topic, American Cosmic) and as a […]
The Blessing of the Groundhog
This is a story about a magical, shapeshifting Goddess currently embodying an overgrown squirrel, and how you can harness her celestial powers for your dreamlife. Today, February 2, is Groundhog Day. I live in Pennsylvania, and Groundhog Day is big deal here. This morning, all eyes were on the little town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where an […]
Connecting with the Other Side during Dreams
People have believed in an afterlife since as least the time of the Neanderthals who buried the dead with flowers, jewelry, and utensils, most likely for use in the next world. And for just as long, people have recognized that our departed loved ones (DLOs) continue to exist in our lives after the death of […]