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...

For the June Oneironauticum at the Ojai Foundation, I downed my bitter brew of Calea Zacatechichi and then followed moonlit paths through the grounds to our spacious yurt, spectacularly perched on the edge of the Eastern lip of the valley. Erik and I alternated between a sensual sexy vibe and giggling like children, particularly once we’d hunted down a persistent rustling that turned out to be a very cute mouse who barely deigned to scurry...

For the most recent Oneironauticum, I took 4g of Melatonin, 200 mg of B-6 and 470 mg of Valerian. As was the common experience, my memories of movements through dream realms were uncharacteristically vague, though I woke sure that I’d dreamed epically and constantly all night. I had the sense of having spent much more of the night in dream space than usual, and less in deep sleep. Throughout the night, I often rose to the surface of...

Dreamers Erik Davis, Vibrata Chromodoris, David Shamanik, Dean Mermell, Jacob Nasim, Christy Silness, Emily Butterfly, feline Marion, and yours truly, Jennifer Dumpert, met at the habitat on Saturday, May 31. Amongst us all, we varied the relative amounts of B-6, Melatonin, and Valerian we took, from 3-5 g of Melatonin, 100-200 mg of B-6 and 470-940 mg of Valerian. Several of our number were kept awake by busy minds for some time after bedding...