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Visionary Dreams

What makes a big dream BIG?

By Ryan Hurd

All cultures that pay attention to dreams make a cut between what's a Big dream and what's an ordinary dream. The cut is not always the same. Different cultures play with different ideas and elevate them or stomp them out, depending on the culture … [Read more...] about What makes a big dream BIG?

Filed Under: Visionary Dreams Tagged With: apex dreaming, archetypal dreams, big dreams, Carl Jung, dreams that change our lives, extraordinary dreams

Doom dreaming: Dreams in the Age of Apocalypse

By Ryan Hurd

  It’s been a week now since the waters have mostly receded from the twin hurricanes of Helene and Milton. A lot of my family live in Florida: they escaped with some water damage and a few hours of power outage. My peoples in the … [Read more...] about Doom dreaming: Dreams in the Age of Apocalypse

Filed Under: Eco-Dreaming Tagged With: Anthropocene, apocalyptic dreams, climate change, climate emergency, covid dreams, doom dreaming, neurodivergence, pandemic dreams, sentinel intelligence

Tombstones beyond time: A precognitive encounter in the pines

By Ryan Hurd

One winter morning in rural Alabama, our crew was surveying a pinewoods for a proposed highway. The weather was frosty and I was wearing my usual archaeologist's uniform of several clashing flannel shirts layered with camouflage pants. We walked in … [Read more...] about Tombstones beyond time: A precognitive encounter in the pines

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health, Eco-Dreaming Tagged With: communication beyond the grave, Cultural resource management, David Abram, earth dreaming, eco dreaming, Eric Wargo, hypnagogia, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, precognitive, psychic vision, real archaeology

Connecting with the Other Side during Dreams

By Julie Beischel

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 … [Read more...] about Connecting with the Other Side during Dreams

Filed Under: Visitation Dreams Tagged With: after death communication, afterlife, ancestral dreaming, departed loved ones, Julie Beischel, life after death, visitation dream

Far out! How to Explore Liminal Dreaming 

By Jennifer Dumpert

In the space between waking and sleep lies the liminal dream. This easily cultivated dream state offers some of the most remarkable and unusual experiences you’ll ever have. You can learn to liminal dream purely for the wild ride it offers, or you … [Read more...] about Far out! How to Explore Liminal Dreaming 

Filed Under: Visionary Dreams Tagged With: hypnagogia, hypnapompia, liminal dreaming, Lucid Dreaming, mantras, Tibetan Buddhism

Sleep Paralysis 2nd Edition now in Print

By Ryan Hurd

It's been ten years since Sleep Paralysis was published.  A lot has changed in a decade so I'm happy to announce the Updated and Revised 2nd edition of Sleep Paralysis: A guide to hypnagogic visions and visitors of the night.  Sleep paralysis, at its … [Read more...] about Sleep Paralysis 2nd Edition now in Print

Filed Under: Dreams & Media, sleep paralysis, Visitation Dreams Tagged With: held down can't move, hypnagogia, Lucid Dreaming, out of body experience, sleep paralysis, sleep paralysis book, supernatural assault

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