A guest post by Atava Garcia Swiecicki. This is the first in a series of articles that will go in depth about all the ways herbs interact with sleep and dreams. But to be able to dream, we first must be able to fall asleep. Insomnia and other … [Read more...] about Skullcap: this herb you probably haven’t heard of can help you sleep
Working with Dreams
The Secret Posture for Triggering Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams and Out-of-Body Experiences
A few years ago, I took a flight from Atlanta back to my home in San Francisco. I was sleep deprived after a late night out with old friends. The afternoon I arrived home, I drove down to Ocean Beach and took a nap in the car, leaving the window open … [Read more...] about The Secret Posture for Triggering Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams and Out-of-Body Experiences
Guarding the Threshold: the Use of Amulets and Liminal Objects for Sleep Paralysis Night-mares
As most of my readers know, I have “suffered” from sleep paralysis night-mares since I was a teenager. I say suffer in quotes because these chilling episodes have also come to include some of my most transcendent experiences in the … [Read more...] about Guarding the Threshold: the Use of Amulets and Liminal Objects for Sleep Paralysis Night-mares
Cracks in the Dam: Honoring Psychic Dreams
In all the years of writing for this blog, I have never had a driving urge to convince skeptics of the existence of anomalous experiences like precognitive and telepathic dreams. I'm simply more interested in the transformational aspects of dreamwork … [Read more...] about Cracks in the Dam: Honoring Psychic Dreams
Apparently I corresponded with Jared Loughner before he was a mass murderer
I got the weirdest phone call last night. The editor of Gawker, A.J. Daulerio, contacted me, requesting information on lucid dreaming. He said he's doing a new piece on lucid dreaming and Jared Loughner, who was sentenced yesterday with life in … [Read more...] about Apparently I corresponded with Jared Loughner before he was a mass murderer
Nexus of Nightmares: Fuseli, Sleep Paralysis, and Horror’s Master Image
A guest post by author Matt Cardin. When I first started experiencing sleep paralysis attacks accompanied by visionary assaults from a shadowy demonic presence in the early 1990s, I was already a long-time fan and student of supernatural horror. I … [Read more...] about Nexus of Nightmares: Fuseli, Sleep Paralysis, and Horror’s Master Image