Starts with myself, and Fur and Erik and Vivek and someone else driving up into the hollywood hills except transfered to san francisco and made much more strangely rural. Actually it looked a lot like pismo. We drive around and eventualy end up parking near a steep grassy hill next to stores that looks sort of Japanese (the whole place, streetsigns etc). And we start to walk up a steep steep path and into a super green lush japanese forest...

During the first part of the night, after drinking the delicious calea zacatechichi liqueur, I had a very complex, detailed dream. Three different dream narratives of more or less the same string of events all ran simultaneously, or else they went back and forth. In the first one, I left the place where we’d conducted Oneironauticum, a small wooden house at the end of a long rural road. I started to walk home, realizing I was barefoot and this...

In attendance at the August 16 Oneironauticum were dreamers Vibrata Chromodoris, David Shamanik, lissa ivy tiegel, Geneva Bumb Shanti, Christine Benvenuto, and yours truly, Jennifer Dumpert. During the evening, before sleeping, we discussed dream states, as we so often do. Thanks to Jeff Warren’s excellent book Head Trip, I’ve recently been introduced to mind state called Hypnopompia, the mirror twin of hypnagogia. I thought the two were the...

For the August Oneironauticum on Saturday, August 16, we’ll enjoy some leftovers. We still have a supply of various oneirogens from previous Oneironauticum sessions. This month, session participants will choose from a number of dream inducing substances that we’ve found effective during past sessions. Available oneirogens for Saturday include: Galantamine, or Red Spider Lily extract. For the first Oneironauticum in January, 2008, we...

It seems that I am already preparing for our next dream night. My house mate and I have started a new ritual in our home. When it begins to get dark, we light candles, rather than keep the lights on. This has been tremendously helpful in preparing me to go to bed and I find that I am fast asleep by 11:30. Prior to beginning this ritual, I would be up until 12 or 1:00. Not being bombarded by artificial light is allowing my mind to wind down...

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