(went to sleep listening to Brian Eno’s Discreet Music) Pools of olive oil in my hands from giving someone (a large man) a massage, balancing on balls of my feet around edges of loft bed. Phone rings, so many rings that I can answer after wiping off my hands. It’s my chiropractor calling to straighten out some technicality re. my address in his files. He explained that he had to write that I’ll be at my temporary address for 10...

Mostly awareness of a landscape, a desert scape. I’m lying in a very arid environment curled around a giant fig. I stay that way for a long time. Later in the night, I was in a hypnagogic state. I became lucid and could see a swirl, an imagery noise space, with heads (only the head) emerging, coming in to focus. They were people I knew, talking to me, but saying mostly really mundane things, like my grandmother who reminded me that I needed to...

I remembered two dreams. 1. I was in the nature nature/desert with my mom and maybe somebody else. We are spending a few days. It is like a retreat. I am in the middle of nature, very dry and I observe the native plants (rosemary or thyme). Suddenly it is time to go to dinner. I go to my room to get changed for dinner. I enter my room, which is like a dorm that five or six people also share with me. Once inside my room, I go to my closet. Two...

I had several dreams throughout the course of the night, two of which were longer, more narrative dreams. The first took place mostly at night, in dodgy parts of town, a general air of seediness around the whole scene. In dingy, worn apartments, women were kept as sex slaves, maybe foreign women who’d been tricked there though that part wasn’t clear. My position seemed unclear, though I think I had recently arrived as one of the women...

The next Oneironauticum will be Thursday, April 29, For this Oneironauticum, we’ll work with an auditory oneirogen, Robert Rich’s electronic music score Somnium, a soundscape designed to promote vivid dreams. We worked with this same musical score two years ago in our Oneironauticum explorations and had great experiences with it. Somnium is a seven hour psychoactive electronic music piece arranged to match up with the phases of sleep....

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...