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. You can also check out the categories list on the right side bar to find a specific topic.
Dreaming 101
What’s Wrong with Dream Dictionaries?
Honoring a Dream By Taking Action
Contemporary Dream Theories (a 4 essay series)
Where I’m Coming From
Calling All Dream Warriors: My Story (the brief version)
The Trouble with Dream Studies (A 3 essay series)
Toward an Integral Science of Consciousness
Beginner Lucid Dreaming
6 Best Scientifically Backed Lucid Dreaming Techniques
How to Have more Lucid Dreams: Lucid Living
The Ritual of Calling Lucid Dreams
Advanced Lucid Dreaming
Geometric Imagery in Lucid Dreams
Lucid Dreaming as Shamanic Technology
Health and Dreams
Dreams that Warn of Illness Managing Cancer Pain Through Dreamwork
Sleep Paralysis and Hypnagogia
Introduction to Sleep Paralysis: Awake and Can’t Move
9 Ways to Wake Up from Sleep Paralysis
Sleep Paralysis and Seeing Spirits
The Succubus and Sexuality in Sleep Paralysis
Dreams and Spirituality
Big DreamsChristian Mysticism and Lucid Dreaming
Eco-Dreaming: Dreams and The Spirit of Place
The Anthropology of Consciousness
Sleep Patterns Around the World
The Prehistory of Lucid Dreaming: New Vistas in Cognitive Archaeology
Hallucinogens in the Stone Age
Nature Awareness as a Field Technique for Anthropologists