I tend to only remember the dream I was having right before I wake up. But I know the moment I get out of bed it will start to fade from memory. So I lay in bed and think about it, which sets it into memory. When I think about it I usually hop around the timeline, one thing will remind me of another, and eventually I will have a linear story. Before I shower (which resets my mind) I will sit down at my computer and type it out in story form....

After a week of rather colorful, detailed dreams, I went to bed with high expectations. It was a while before I fell asleep but I was enjoying the music. I was thinking about the dreams I had during the week and thinking about the dreams I had earlier in the week and thinking about the conversations we’d all had before going to bed. In a hypnagogic state, I realized I had random images of the day’s events flitting quickly through my head and...

I dreamed I was giving a tour of a house to the group of us sleeping in the loft for Oneironauticum, except it wasn’t actually those people. The house was architecturally interesting, with a glass enclosure in the front overlooking the oceanand a big pool in the back. The owner’s daughter was interested in our group and joined us in the tour. This worried me, since several people in the group were naked.

I got into bed just past midnight and snuggled in to the opening bars of Somnium. Before long, I drifted into a deep hypnagogic state. In his 1987 book Hypnagogia, psychologist Andreas Mavromatis defines four hypnagogic states: first vague patterns, shape and light (for me often like pointillism), then floaty imagery, sound (maybe voices), perhaps the sensation of movement (that feeling of falling or involuntary jerking), then what he calls...

In attendance at the July 12 Oneironauticum were dreamers Erik Davis, Vibrata Chromodoris, David Shamanik, lissa ivy tiegel, Dean Mermell, Lesley Freeman, Christine Benvenuto, Matthew Wiegland, Leia, Tristan Naramore, and yours truly, Jennifer Dumpert. Before going to sleep, we talked about topics relating to dreams, as we usually do. We discussed current research that attempts to explain why humans dream. Current theories include the idea that...

For the July Oneironauticum, we’ll explore an auditory experience designed to promote vivid dreams. Over the course of the night, those of us gathered in the same space will sleep to a recording of Robert Rich’s seven hour composition Somnium, a psychoactive soundscape arranged to match up with the phases of sleep. Rich scored this music to increase the intensity and recall of dreams, in part by keeping dreamers closer to the border to...