As a sports science student in Germany, Mark Hettmanczyk, knew he had only modest skills as a swimmer. Well, even that statement might seem too generous. According to Mark, his swimming coach told him, ‘Mr. Hettmanczyk, you are a stone. You will never be a good swimmer.’ But Mark had one skill the swimming coach…
By Ed Kellog III, Ph. D. 2013 © 2014 Many cultures believe that some acts, such as meditating and healing, have as much as a seven-fold enhanced effectiveness in lucid dreams, as compared to the same acts performed in waking physical reality. Tibetans have even developed a series of dream yoga practices to take advantage…
By Mary Ziemer © 2013 Beloved gaze in thine own heart The Holy tree is growing there…. —William Butler Yeats Yeats’ plea to his beloved—to gaze into her own heart and look upon the Holy tree growing there— echoes the call to the heart of the ‘Lucid Surrender’ experience. Like the roots of a…
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily Lucid dreamer, Thomas Peisel, joined forces with lucid dreaming co-authors, friends, and Kickstarter to publish, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics. Check out how Thomas sees lucid dreaming as a means to promote greater awareness, insight, and emotional health. Tell…
By Rory Mac Sweeney © 2013 “My new project, The Mutual Dream Experiment, seeks to encourage people to explore the nature of reality by allowing a means in which to investigate the process of shared dreaming. There is a consensus among people who really tune into their dream life that the possibility of exchanging information…
By Ryan Hurd © 2013 For the last six months, I have been advising a tech start-up called SHADOW, which is currently building software for tracking and recording dreams. It‘s been fun influencing this project from the ground up, all the while thinking about how useful a free, open-source digital dream journal would also be…
By Maria Isabel Pita © 2014 ‘A cellular anthropologist is a code finder who looks for clues to spiritual and social life hidden in our molecular structures.’—Sondra Barrett Excerpt from my dream journal, November 22, 2013: Back on a street of the town where I confronted the black magicians, riding in a…
By Al Moniz [email protected] © 2014 Waking Life is a well-known movie that seems to be about, or at least prominently feature, dreaming. I have even heard it described as a movie about lucid dreaming. I myself would say that it is a movie that takes place entirely in a dream state (or rather –…
By Joan C. Harthan, PhD © 2014 I was so pleased when I received Lucy’s email, passing on Rebecca’s suggestion that we have the theme of Laughter and Lucidity for this edition. It immediately brought to mind a lucid dream I had in 2005 and I was compelled to get tapping away on my keyboard…
By Lucy Gillis © 2014 “A woman’s slumber is after all a private and sacred thing.” …
By Mary Ziemer © 2014 Phony prophets stole the only light I knew, And the darkness softly screamed. Holy visions disappeared from my view, But the angels come back and laugh in my dreams, I wonder what it means. –Judee Sill, ‘Crayon Angels’ Now and again, ‘angels also come back to laugh in my…
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily Author, magician and lucid dreamer, Daniel Love, looks deeply at lucid dreaming techniques in his new book, Are You Dreaming? Read more about his unique perspective in this interview with Robert Waggoner. How did you become interested in lucid dreaming? For me, lucid…