As the final weekend of April approaches, I must explain the absence of an April Oneironauticum. After the Consciousness Conference in Tucson at the beginning of the month, my spouse and I have spent the balance of the month in Paris, from whence we shan’t return until early May. I lived in this city 21 years ago. During that time, I slept a lot, and for the first time ever spent a lot of time alone. As a result, my dream life grew ever more...

The night of the Oneironauticum, I had a hard time falling asleep. Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been practicing Dream Yoga throughout the day, behind the wheel, at my desk, on the subway. As I sit and write now, I can easily visualize, and auralize, a glowing white om humming at my heart center. Even though the practice comes naturally now, however, it’s incredibly difficult to maintain mental focus as I slip closer and closer to the...

A few days before your last dream night, someone who knows about my dream thing sent me the link to this blog. Then I was surprised to read what you wrote yesterday about staying conscious as you fall asleep, because that’s what I do almost every night! On the night the dream group met, I did the meditation while I was falling asleep. I didn’t practice it before, so maybe I wasn’t that good at it. The best thing for me was the...

I dreamed of...

This entry is from the morning after the most recent Oneironauticum: “I had a rather huge download of dreams and woke up twice that I can recall. Lying here this morning, reviewing them all in my head, what comes to me is that at no point during all of that dreaming did it ever seem “unreal” no matter how strange the circumstances. The “me” that is dreaming is accepting of the things being seen and felt as “real”. Then, upon...

On the morning of the Oneironauticum, I woke up and observed the process I went through to remember my dreams, a sort of scan of memory, both trying and relaxing, an exercise of recall. I remembered two dreams that way. Once I had exhausted my thought process, while I still laid in bed in a hazy close to sleep/dream state, I then began randomly shifting through thoughts/images, the ocean, my home, the act of walking, a feeling of pleasure....