The next Oneironauticum is Thursday, August 20th. This special session will take place in Santa Barbara, on the campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute, during the two-day session that marks the beginning of a class I’ll be teaching on dreams. Students and faculty will participate in person and, as always, we welcome remote participants. For this session, we’ll be working with mugwort as our oneirogen. Mugwort contains thujone, the active...

I’m with some friends, and observing a landscape that has an approximately 20” embankment to a higher plateau. Apparently I’ve only been existing on the “lower” one, and my friends tease me about not having been on the “higher” one. The plateau is a beautiful Arizona-type desert. I walk on this plateau and the immediate landscape changes to a tennis court with impressively giant (as in narrow, long, not wide or deep) cracks in the...

I dreamt that Charles Manson had been released from jail and that during his 40 years in captivity he had gotten his barber certification. I worked for a large corporation (much like I really do) and the corporation was really into a new feel-good program for prisoner rehabilitation, and we had hired Charles Manson as an on-site barber. Everyone was all freaked out about having the guy so close to their head with scissors, so I made a big speech...

I am working in an office in an older building at a federal facility. Several guys also work in offices along the same hallway. I am reviewing a report about groundwater contamination. I am ready to send my comments to the author and mention it to my coworker. He states that he has already sent the response for our office. I say something like “When were you going to tell me?” I am irritated because I feel that I have wasted my time,...

I follow a woman into the front door of my building. I’m concerned because I think she’s barging into my apartment, but then it turns out to be someone else’s apartment. There’s a dinner party going on. My friends and I (some of the people at the Oneironauticum and some other people) sit at the table and start eating the food. There’s fried potatoes and greens. We’re not exactly welcome, since we’re consuming their meal, but then...