Dream Basics by David Sunfellow
Mar 05
A two-page handout on why dreams are important, how to remember them, how to interpret them, and how to use them to transform your life. This handout was created by David Sunfellow for his near-death experience class in Sedona, Arizona…
Wanda Easter Burch: ‘She Who Dreams’
Jan 02
Wanda Burch dreamt that she would die at a certain age; her dreams foretold her diagnosis of cancer, and then guided her toward treatment and wellness. She took advantage of all the usual medical resources available to her, but believes she is alive because of her intimate engagement with the dreamworld. “She Who Dreams” takes the reader into that healing dreamworld, opening a path to self-diagnosis and physical and psychic health. Through powerful prose and practical exercises, this book describes in compelling detail a life lived and deepened, and a death postponed. In the process it shows that wisdom lives within everyone, and that anyone can tap into that wisdom through dreamwork…
Dream: The Greatest Movie Ever Made
Oct 31
I dreamed I was sitting in a movie theater watching a movie. As I watched the movie, a host of meandering, shallow, incoherent, sometimes violent images tumbled across the screen. “What kind of ridiculous movie is this?” I thought, appalled that someone had spent millions of dollars on such a worthless, poorly-written movie…
Twelve “Any Time, Any Place” Survival Tips (v3.2)
Sep 06
So, you live on Planet Earth and are wondering what you can do to insure a graceful passage through whatever changes may come your way. And you want advice that you can use any time, any place, even when faced with the kind of apocalyptic changes that are presently knocking on our global door. Here are a few practical suggestions…
Ray Kurzweil On Using Dreams To Solve Problems
Sep 06
Ray Kurzweil on how he has learned to use his dreams to solve problems…
08/28/12 NHNE NDE Class Notes
Aug 30
This NHNE NDE Class update includes information about a sister group in North Carolina, our newly forming dream group, the 2012 IANDS conference, the 2012 ACISTE conference, the 2012-2013 Tucson IANDS Guest Speaker Series, NDEr Dr. Eben Alexander’s new book, NDEr Jeff C. Olsen’s new book, 7-Year-Old NDEr Ari Hallmark’s new book, the dark side and Will Bray on Skeptiko, the relationship between NDEs and synchronicities, David Milarch — An Example Of NDE-Inspiration At Work In The World, Lilou Mace interviewing Anita Moorjani one year later, Don Wolf’s NDE, and more…
How Dreams Wake Us Up
Jul 21
Here’s an open secret about dreaming. It’s not fundamentally about sleeping. It’s really about waking up. For starters, dreams wake us up to what is going on inside our bodies and what we need to do to stay well or get well…
Is Jesus Reaching Out To Muslims Through Their Dreams? (Updated)
Jul 09
Is Jesus Christ reaching out to Muslims through their dreams and encouraging them to embrace his teachings? This is exactly the phenomenon that some former Islamic adherents claim they have personally experienced. Numerous stories about Muslims, among others, who see the Christian savior in their dreams and convert as a result are streaming out of the Middle East…
Robert Moss: ‘If You Want To Be A Shaman, Start At The Breakfast Table’
Jul 03
Robert Moss, author of nine books on the dreaming process, shares ideas and techniques for reclaiming the lost part of ourselves, our soul…
Andy Paquette: 20 Year History of Precognitive Dreams
Jul 02
Andy Paquette, author of, “Dreamer: 20 Years of Psychic Dreams and How They Changed My Life”, discusses his psychic and precognitive experiences…
Hank Wesselman, Modern Shaman
Jul 02
Research paleoanthropologist Hank Wesselman did his undergraduate work, as well as his Masters Degree, in Zoology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, then went on to receive his doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. A native New Yorker, he has spent much of his life living and working among traditional tribal peoples, primarily in Africa and Polynesia. He served in the US Peace Corps in the 1960′s, living among people of the Yoruba Tribe in Western Nigeria for two years. It was there that he first became interested in indigenous spiritual wisdom. Hank is currently working with an international research team in Ethiopia involved in the search for answers to the mystery of human origins. He is also a shaman in training, now in the 29th year of his apprenticeship. His books include the Spiritwalker Trilogy (Spiritwalker, Medicinemaker, and Visionseeker), the Journey to the Sacred Garden, Spirit Medicine, and Awakening to the Spirit World (with Sandra Ingerman.) His latest book is The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman…
Dreams: Excerpts from “Healing Dreams” by Marc Ian Barasch
Jun 21
“In our era, the past is vanishing like smoke. The ancestors and gods and spirits who speak through dreams were once welcomed into the circle of community; were among its essential members. But who now will listen to them? The cultures that honored them are dying, their very languages becoming extinct. The thread of received wisdom that has sustained us is stretched thin to breaking. Shorn of memory, we no longer recognize as part of life’s fabric those who have come before us. The voices of the myriad beings, visible and invisible, who surround us grow faint, though they are still talking in our sleep.
…Our dreams are a continuum, revealing, if we care to look, that we do not exist alone, but in a skein of relationship with all that has been, all that is, and all that shall be.” — Marc Ian Barasch
The Hilbert Big Dreams Project
Jun 20
The Hilbert Big Dreams Project – “Help collect, classify, analyse and share the “big dreams” of the world from 2002 to 2012. Help us apply our pattern detection experience on this larger sample. Learn how through developing this community you could hold the key to discover the core problems of the current time.”
Dreams: Excerpts from “Healing Dreams” by Marc Ian Barasch
Jun 04
“In our era, the past is vanishing like smoke. The ancestors and gods and spirits who speak through dreams were once welcomed into the circle of community; were among its essential members. But who now will listen to them? The cultures that honored them are dying, their very languages becoming extinct. The thread of received wisdom that has sustained us is stretched thin to breaking. Shorn of memory, we no longer recognize as part of life’s fabric those who have come before us. The voices of the myriad beings, visible and invisible, who surround us grow faint, though they are still talking in our sleep… Our dreams are a continuum, revealing, if we care to look, that we do not exist alone, but in a skein of relationship with all that has been, all that is, and all that shall be.” — Marc Ian Barasch
‘Remee’ – New Lucid Dreaming Mask
May 21
In a twist straight out of the movie Inception, a duo of developers from Brooklyn, New York, have built a sleeping mask designed to allow people to have lucid dreams that they can control. The goal of the product is to allow people to have the dreams of their choice, from driving a race car to flying to having lunch with Abraham Lincoln…
New Book: ‘Communing With The Gods’
Apr 25
Communing with the Gods presents the most comprehensive account of culture and dreaming available in the anthropology of dreaming, and is written by an anthropologist who is also trained in neuroscience, and who is himself a lucid dreamer and Tibetan Tantric dream yoga practitioner. The book examines the place of dreaming in the experience of peoples from diverse cultures and historical backgrounds…
29th Annual International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) Conference
Apr 11
The 2012 conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams is June 22-26, 2012 in Berkeley, CA. If you are ready to connect with a dynamic dream research community, here’s your chance. Keynotes this year includes cognitive scientist Tracey Kahan, psychologist Patricia Garfield, and Fred Alan Wolf, aka Dr. Quantum. And there’s over 160 other cutting-edge presentations and workshops as well….
New Book: ‘Lucid Immersion Guidebook’
Apr 04
Based on the latest lucid dreaming research, as well as wisdom of ancient cultures, the Lucid Immersion Guidebook provides the tools needed to build your own lucid life practice. Designed for frustrated beginners and advanced lucid dreamers alike, the Lucid Immersion Guidebook lays out a structured plan — a holistic blueprint — for waking up in your dreams quickly, safely, and sustainably. This work is the most up-to-date and comprehensive “how to” book on lucid dreaming, drawing from fresh clinical, anthropological, and neurological sources. It’s the best of the old and the new.
Abraham Lincoln’s Dreams
Apr 04
Abraham Lincoln reported the following dreams while President: a visitation dream, a dream of parental concern, a prophecy of his assassination, and a series of dreams relating to military battles. Each of these dreams is reported in a legitimate historical source, indicating that Lincoln took dreams very seriously and tried to incorporate their insights into his waking life…
American Liberals More Expansive Dreamers; American Conservatives Not So Much
Apr 04
American liberals tend to be worse sleepers and more expansive dreamers than American conservatives, who tend to be better sleepers and relatively minimal dreamers…
New Book: ‘Integral Dreaming – A Holistic Approach to Dreams’
Mar 23
This innovative book offers a holistic approach to one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of human experience: dreaming. Advocating the broad-ranging vision termed “integral” by thinkers from Aurobindo to Wilber, Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers consider dreams as multifaceted phenomena in an exploration that includes scientific, phenomenological, sociocultural, and subjective knowledge. Drawing from historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary practices, both interpretive and noninterpretive, the authors present Integral Dream Practice, an approach that emphasizes the dreamer’s creative participation, reflective capacities, and mindful awareness in working with dreams. Bogzaran and Deslauriers have developed this comprehensive way of approaching dreams over many years and highlight their methods in a chapter that unfolds a single dream, showing how sustained creative exploration over time leads to transformative change…
Dream: ‘Tasting The Dragon’
Mar 08
Ryan Hurd writes: “In dreams, the dragon — or one of its variations: wyrm, sea-creature, dinosaur — doesn’t just show up so the heroic ego can kill something ancient and vaguely reptilian to score some gold and a black-haired virgin. That would be too easy. No — there’s unfinished business after you retrieve the sword from the dragon’s belly. I learned this for myself in a terrifying nightmare…”
The Myth Of The Eight-Hour Sleep
Feb 22
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night — but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural. In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month. It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep…
Dream: The Young Couple
Feb 15
I had the sweetest little dream last night. It grew out of trying, once again, to come to a deeper understanding of how to relate to other people. When should we go along with something; when should we opt out, how can we go along or opt out in a good way; a way that leaves both people feeling seen, loved, appreciated?
NHNE Dreams
Nov 15
For news, information, and links to dream-related books, videos, websites and other resources, visit NHNE’s new dream feed: NHNE Dreams on Google+
Online PsiberDreaming Conference Starts This Sunday
Sep 23
Join Host Jean Campbell and the PsiberDreaming Team for two weeks of cutting-edge presentations, workshops, and discussion with some top experts in the field of dreams…
BBC Documentary: ‘Carl Jung: The Wisdom Of The Dream’
Aug 21
This three-part series of films was broadcast in 1998 by PBS on the life and works of the great thinker and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung…
The Art & Science Of Dreaming
Aug 11
People throughout the ages have regarded dreams as a source of creative inspiration. A number of famous works of Western art and literature were directly influenced by their creator’s dreams. Among writers, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley dreamed up several key scenes in her novel Frankenstein, and Robert Louis Stevenson had a dream about a divided soul at war with itself that gave him the core plot idea for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Surrealist painters like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte drew upon their dreams for bizarre, symbol-laden images of melting clocks and floating bowler hats. In more recent years, a number of prominent movie directors have experienced dreams that influenced their films, including David Lynch in Blue Velvet, Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now, and Akira Kurusawa in Dreams. Contemporary musicians have also described their dreams as creative inspirations. Paul McCartney had a dream that gave him the tune for “Yesterday,” and Sting’s song “The Lazarus Heart” came from a personal nightmare…
Five Reasons To Listen To Your Children’s Dreams
Jul 17
Children often tell researchers that no one listens to them when they want to talk about their dreams. Unfortunately, pressured schedules and a cultural disinterest in dreams mean that many parents take little notice of their own dream life, never mind their children’s. Here are five reasons why parents might want to find a few moments to listen carefully to their children’s nightly expeditions…
Unsolved Mysteries: Dreams Come True
Jul 09
Unsolved Mysteries reports on people who have dreams of literal events…
Prophetic Dreams: Preparing For Divorce
Apr 07
As an experienced dreamworker, I know dream messages are true and that they often predict the future. Yet sometimes I am not ready to hear what they have to say. The truth is, when we have dreams that feel unsetting it’s easy to push them aside and hope they’ll go away. But if you are willing to face your emotionally disturbing dreams, you may be able to confront concerns before they turn into waking life dramas. Case in point: two dreams I had at the beginning of last year that told me exactly what was coming…
The Lucid Dream Exchange
Mar 14
The Lucid Dream Exchange is an independently published, reader supported, quarterly publication that features lucid dreams and articles on lucid dreaming. Our goal is to educate and inspire lucid dreamers through sharing lucid dreams, exploring lucid dream techniques, and discussing the implications of lucid dream activities…
Free Teleseminar: Discover The Healing Power Of Lucid Dreams
Mar 09
You have chronic pain in your shoulder. You’ve heard about lucid dreaming and how it can help you heal, so you decide to give it a try. Before you go to bed, you set your intention, then fall asleep. Suddenly you wake up, but quickly realize you are dreaming. After a moment of excitement, you remember your intention to heal so you conjure up a magic wand and cry out, “Lumos!” A beautiful light bursts from your wand, and as you direct the energy to your shoulder the light turns into a blazing red Eye of Horus, the Egyptian symbol of protection and power. You wake up feeling better. This is the true story of how DreamTribe author Atava Garcia experienced her first lucid healing session. You can supercharge your healing potential by practicing specific lucid dreaming techniques…
Deep Sleep Maximizes Brain’s Ability To Learn
Mar 09
UC Berkeley researchers have found compelling evidence that bursts of brain waves known as “sleep spindles” may be networking between key regions of the brain to clear a path to learning. “A lot of that spindle-rich sleep is occurring the second half of the night, so if you sleep six hours or less, you are shortchanging yourself. You will have fewer spindles, and you might not be able to learn as much,” said Bryce Mander, a post-doctoral fellow in psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of the study…
Dreams: Turtle Power: Honoring A Dream With Action
Jan 18
Over the holidays, I read an introductory book on dreams by Bobbie Ann Pimm, titled Notes from a dreamer on dreaming. Pimm’s book may be meant for beginners, but even seasoned dreamers will get something out of this personal and practical book. What strikes me the most of Pimm’s book is her simple three-step advice for recording and interpreting dreams…
Dreams: Lucid Dreaming, Jared Loughner & The Tucson Shooting
Jan 14
Jared Loughner is the man alledgedly responsible for the Tucson shooting last Sunday, which resulted in the death of six people and the injury of fourteen others. Since the shooting, and Loughner’s arrest, several details about his life have come out in the press. His favorite books include Marx’s Communist Manifesto and Hitler’s Mein Kampf. He has an active Youtube profile detailing his political and literary influences, and, according to various sources, has reportedly been fighting mental illness for years. Jared Loughner is also a lucid dreamer. Already, several news sources have commented on Loughner’s passion for “conscience dreaming,” as he called it, the ability to control your dreams. Today, CNN followed up with a balanced piece, interviewing several dream researchers. Unfortunately, some local TV networks have not dug so deep, suggesting that conscious dreaming — the actual term for dreaming with self-awareness — is a gateway to mental illness…
The Best Dream Books On Planet Earth
Dec 14
You can find a growing collection of some of the best dream books on planet Earth in NHNE’s bookstore. Click here to check them out…
Quote: Linda Mastrangelo
Dec 14
”When we incorporate dreaming into our spiritual practice we are more directly in touch with who we truly are and our highest potential. Somehow by tapping into this higher state of awareness we are healing the world as we heal ourselves.” — Linda Mastrangelo
Naps Boost Memory, But Only If You Dream
Dec 10
Sleep has long been known to improve performance on memory tests. Now, a new study suggests that an afternoon power nap may boost your ability to process and store information tenfold — but only if you dream while you’re asleep…
Book: Excerpts from “Healing Dreams” by Marc Ian Barasch
Nov 29
“In our era, the past is vanishing like smoke. The ancestors and gods and spirits who speak through dreams were once welcomed into the circle of community; were among its essential members. But who now will listen to them? The cultures that honored them are dying, their very languages becoming extinct. The thread of received wisdom that has sustained us is stretched thin to breaking. Shorn of memory, we no longer recognize as part of life’s fabric those who have come before us. The voices of the myriad beings, visible and invisible, who surround us grow faint, though they are still talking in our sleep… Our dreams are a continuum, revealing, if we care to look, that we do not exist alone, but in a skein of relationship with all that has been, all that is, and all that shall be.” — Marc Ian Barasch
Quote: Vincent Van Gogh
Nov 29
“I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh
Dream App: In Your Dreams
Nov 24
Dream App for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad – Every night, our dreams carry messages from our unconscious that can shed light on aspects of our waking lives. In Your Dreams™ helps you to explore the meaning of your dreams with an interactive dream journal that works hand-in-hand with a beautifully illustrated and comprehensively researched dream symbol guide…
Dreams: REMcloud (Tracking Dreams, In Real Time, All Over The Planet)
Nov 24
REMcloud is a social and information network that connects people all over the world around the most universally shared human experience; our dreams. REMcloud allows you to see what the world is dreaming about at any point in time: tapping into the worlds collective consciousness in real time…
Dream: Groundhog Day
Nov 21
Had a Groundhog Day series of dreams last night. The same dream, modified each time, played again and again. The main character kept returning to a situation trying to get it right. He kept trying to do the right thing, with the right spirit. Each time he tried, he got a little closer, but the dreams ended before he got it figured out. I can’t remember what the situation was, or what the specific thought and action was either, except that it involved being more conscious and loving. That, I guess, pretty much sums up my life. Can you relate?
The Dream Tribe: Now On Facebook!
Nov 20
The Dream Tribe is now on Facebook! Come join some of the best, most knowledgeable, experienced, and well-connected dreamers on planet Earth…
Why We Forget & How To Remember Our Dreams
Nov 18
Dream research indicates that all people have about 4 to 6 six dreams a night. Some people remember six dreams a night, while others don’t remember any… Here are some specific techniques that can help you unlock the door to your dream warehouse…
The Dream Tribe
Nov 16
Your dreams can radically or subtly change your life for the better. Knowing how to engage them makes all the difference in the world. The Dream Tribe offers a gold mine of resources for people who want to learn how to tap into the power of their dreams…
Dreams: Dream Recording Device ‘Possible’
Nov 04
Dr Cerf makes his bold claim based on an initial study that he says suggests that the activity of individual brain cells, or neurons, are associated with specific objects or concepts. He found, for example, that when a volunteer was thinking of Marilyn Monroe, a particular neuron lit up. By showing volunteers a series of images, Dr Cerf and his colleagues were able to identify neurons for a wide range of objects and concepts — which they used to build up a database for each patient. These included Bill and Hilary Clinton, the Eiffel Tower and celebrities… He admits that there is a very long way to go before this simple observation can be translated into a device to record dreams — a “dream catcher”. But he thinks it is a possibility — and he said he would like to try…
