On the night of Oneironauticum, I woke five hours after going to sleep to take a capsule of Red Spider Lily root, or Galantamine. I didn’t remember any dreams before then, which is unusual for me. Having been at the Symbiosis Gathering for a few nights previous, however, I’d gotten much less sleep than usual. As I say in all my talks and at Oneironauticum gatherings, the primary factor in dreaming more is sleeping more. If you don’t get...

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...

I felt the effects of Galantamine clearly. Most of my dreams involved dream group participants talking loudly, describing *their* experiences to me, and me worrying that they would wake everyone else sleeping in the space. When listening to one of these narrators, Erik, I could vaguely see his face, less clearly even than I would have seen it in the dark room. That was the only visual component of the dream. Most of my dreams involved sound and...