Tagged with lucid dreaming

The editor of Gawker called me. He said he was doing a piece on Jared Loughner, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his deadly rampage in Tuscon in January 2011. Gawker had got a hold of some emails from Loughner. He said, "We have an email from him to you." (more)

For millennia ancient cultures engaged the creative and spiritual potential of dreaming. In November "Gateways of the Mind" will bring together some of the foremost contemporary practitioners of these ancient traditions, and show how our ancestors paved the way for the many experienced practitioners who are now teaching in the west. (more)

When you incubate a dream, plan to do something specific in it, and tell yourself that this will trigger lucidity for you. Flying often leads automatically to lucidity in a dream. As part of the induction procedure, spend some time observing birds in flight, read about birds, aircraft, levitating yogis, anything that carries the message. (more)

Magic, shamanic trance, lucid dreaming, meditation, psychotropic plant use, and writing are all ways to remember how we tricked ourselves into getting lost in a language-based reality construct. By adapting our consciousness to accomodate unfamiliar brain states, we can "write" a more cohesive narrative of reality. (more)

Active Dreaming is a way of being fully of this world while maintaining constant contact with the world-behind-the-world, where the deeper logic and purpose of our lives are to be found. (more)

Thanks to movies like Inception and Avatar, there have been more news articles about dream research in the last two months than I've seen in the last two years, with journalists asking: Is dream control possible? Will technology let us share dreams? What kind of pill can we take to wake up in our dreams? (more)

Does lucid dreaming allow us access to another person's mind, as the new movie Inception suggests?  Or do we all connect subconsciously in a meta-web, mind-grid of a Collective Unconscious?  Could we use lucid dreaming to provide scientific evidence of a mental realm or shared inner dimension? (more)

If the body seems influenced by events in the lucid state, could a consciously aware dreamer heal his or her physical body in a lucid dream? Incredibly, the answer appears to be yes. (more)