Dreamers Erik Davis, lissa ivy tiegel, Geneva Bumb Shanti, Dean Mermell, Vibrata Chromodoris, David Shamanix, jacob Nasim, Christy Silness, and yours truly, Jennifer Dumpert, met at the habitat on Saturday, March 1. We had all spent the day contemplating elements of waking life as if they’d been dream things (see direction below), after paying attention to the experience of remembering dreams that morning. We all went to sleep and awoke...

In the second Oneironauticum session, we will explore Tibetan Buddhist Dream Yoga. Shakyamuni Buddha taught his followers to consider reality a dream. All phenomena, in waking and dreaming states alike, arises and dissolves around our own impermanent subjectivity. The pracitioner learns to lucid dream and thereby carries waking subjectivity into the dream world, the first step toward understanding that waking and dreaming worlds are merely...

I was in the same room in which we all went to sleep, as if the rewind button had been pressed and playback was with different characters in the room. In this version I lay cuddling with a past love; his presence so real that I could literally smell, taste and feel the softness of his skin. There was no difference of dimensions, states of mind, lucidity; if all my past experiences of lucid dreaming hadn’t been enough to prove to me that...

our dream altar dream...

Ian participated from New York City. The next morning i woke from an epic and vivid dream of traveling from pirate ship to pirate ship, through many adventures across the seas, violent, passionate, difficult, joyous, to end up on a ship, right on the verge of waking, with a deck like a european garden, and a women leaning over the railing, three women actually, the same women in three distinct phases of her life, young, mid-life, and aged,...

Oneironauticum #1: 4mg galantamine, extracted from Lycoris radiata (Red Spider Lily) While galantamine had no noticeable effect on my dreaming this time, I can see trying it at home under normal sleeping conditions, to attempt to induce more vibrant dreams. Meanwhile, just gathering with others and focusing on dreams and dreaming was pleasurable and inspiring in itself. May my mind and body be more relaxed next time we experiment! After rousing...