Next month, I'll be giving an invited talk at a dream conference in Weston, Massachusetts. I'll be showcasing examples of how people throughout history--and especially today--have used their sleep paralysis-induced hallucinations for … [Read more...] about Are Creative Muses Visiting Us During Sleep Paralysis Hallucinations?
Working with Dreams
The Benefits of Recognizing Ancestral Dreams
Dreams can provide a quick path to connecting with our direct ancestors. They are waiting to remembered. The road has simply been covered by a few inches of cultural plastic debris whose gods are industry and ecological warfare. But the older path is … [Read more...] about The Benefits of Recognizing Ancestral Dreams
Skullcap: this herb you probably haven’t heard of can help you sleep
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
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