Hi Reader As a lifelong lucid dreamer with all its ups and downs, I know what it is like to struggle with lucid dreams. Even after you go lucid -- it's a real process as we learn how to navigate the dream world. It can be really challenging to call forth the wisdom of the dreaming mind to support your soulful goals. This could include dissolving a creative block, healing a nightmare wound, or exploring the non-dual spaces beyond your dream body. Whatever your intention may be, navigating the...
4 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, Welcome to the Dream Studies Newsletter! I'm so glad you opened this email. Some of my readers have been following me for decades, and others are brand new to my approach to dreamwork. I appreciate you! In this newsletter I share my latest blog on flying in lucid dreams, plus a new episode of my podcast on sleep paralysis entities, followed by deeper ways you can connect with me and my work. How to fly in lucid dreams: and the initiation waiting for you there According to the...
19 days ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, Welcome to the Dream Studies Newsletter! This weekend is Lugnasadh, a traditional European harvest festival celebrated on and around August 1st. (pronounce it like this: “Lu - na - Sah- ga"). It’s considered a “first fruits” harvest, a time to get together and enjoy the bounty of all the hard work we’ve been doing. Traditionally, the celebration centers around the themes of baking bread, tending to the hearth or fire, picking berries, and getting together with friends to renew...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader! I’m excited to announce that my independent publishing press has reached a new milestone. We are collaborating with Elsewhere.to and together have created the world’s first connected dream journal system. In a lot of ways, the project epitomizes the central mission of my work, which has always been about integrating the best of 21st century thought with the intuitive ways of knowing prized by our ancestors: dreams, visions and imagination: "the best of the old and new.” Comes with:...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader! Just in time for washing the dishes tonight, Episode 3 of the Dream Studies Podcast is available to listen. In this episode, I sat down with London-based lucid dreaming artist and author Dave Green to explore what he calls "inter-dimensional performance art." As he outlines in his new book Doodles in the Dark, he has honed an extraordinary practice of creating artwork directly inside his lucid dreams, which he then recreates upon waking. Along the way, we discuss the implications...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, I recently did a “Ask me anything” video for some advanced lucid dreamers and I thought y’all might like to see it too. In this video, I riff on: the out-of body-experience I had at age 15 that changed my life the best evidence-based lucid dreaming induction tactics my thoughts on precognitive and so-called psychic dreams Sleep paralysis and lucid nightmare tactics The ethics and science of lucid dream sex And in the end I introduce my upcoming course: Lucid Ignition: The...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader! I'll keep this short because it's Saturday and I want to go to the farmer's market and check out my brother-in-law's mushroom table. Red reishis are in! Episode 2 of the Dream Studies Podcast is available to listen. I sat down with medical anthropologist and author Samantha Lee Treasure to explore the fascinating and often misunderstood world of out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Samantha shares how growing up on a reportedly haunted farm in Ontario set her on a lifelong path of...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! This week a new article by myself and colleagues was published in the International Journal of Dream Research. In this article, we lay out a proposed method of online dreamwork for clinicians. This article closes a gap in the literature, showcasing the safety and effectiveness for asynchronous online dreamwork. That’s a mouthful – the term means dream sharing over secure forums, email or patient portals rather than face-to-face (synchronous) dream sharing. I’m not a clinician: my...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! How’s your dream life? Lately, I’ve been noticing how simple habits are critical to my dreaming. For example, if I start the week off recording my dreams Monday morning, then I’m much more likely to do the same on Tuesday too. By Thursday, I'm enjoying a full back-and-forth conversation between waking life and my intuitive self, and by Saturday, a big lucid dream when I sleep in. So much of this creative flow depends on how my Monday morning goes. One disruption in routine, like...
5 months ago • 4 min read