Jul 30, 2020
Buckle up and get ready for a ride in this very special episode with lucid dreaming author and researcher Ryan Hurd. We touch on A LOT in this one including shamanic dream battles, lucid nightmares, ethnocentric concepts of reality, shadow work, ancient rock art, acoustic archeology, trance states, nocebo effect, dream control, ayahuasca, ancestral spirits, sleep paralysis, shamanic cognition styles, the autonomous visionary complex associated with dreaming, Freud, angels, gods, incubuses, sorcerers....
Segment: The Personalized Myth (28:05)
Ryan is a dream researcher, educator and author. His recent research focuses on lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, lucid nightmares, lucid dreaming supplements and the anthropology of consciousness. He has presented to a wide range of audiences, including lectures at Stanford University and TEDMED. Ryan’s work has been featured or quoted on CNN, NPR, Vice, Business Insider, Mashable, Psychology Today and Gawker. He has written several books including Sleep Paralysis, Big Dreams, Dream Like a Boss, Lucid Immersion Guidebook, and Lucid Dreaming: New Perspectives on Consciousness in Sleep. Ryan is the founder of dream and consciousness research website DreamStudies.org which includes his extremely popular lucid dreaming blog. He is also a board member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and frequently consults with tech companies in the wearable tech/quantified self movement.
EPISODE LINKS
Ryan Hurd - Unearthing the Paleolithic Mind in Lucid Dreams
stanleykrippner.weebly.com/anyone-who-dreams.html
Hmong sleep paralysis study references:
Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection by Shelley Adler
The real life inspiration behind Nightmare on Elm Street
The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect
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The Many Contributions of Jeremy Taylor (Psychology Today)
Indications That a Northern New
Mexico Petroglyph Was Inspired by Traumatic
Nightmare
David Lewis Williams - The Mind in the Cave
B. Alan Wallace - The Taboo of Subjectivity
Acoustic Archaeology aka Archaeoacoustics
Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture
CONNECT
Is This a Dream Facebook page
MUSIC FOOTNOTE
all music performed by Adam Cotton with the exception of the piano piece which was played by Michael McGushin