On music, synchronicity, the uncanny, and connection — “When you know the song, you sing along!” sang the announcer on 98.1 WOGL FM in an ad for the radio station this morning. I smiled. The message was cheesy, but true. We do often sing along when we know the song. Sometimes, though, we quickly switch the station when…

What Dreams, Video Games, the Attention Economy, and the Metaverse Have in Common — It’s not entirely accurate to say this, but I spend a lot of time in dreams. It’s inaccurate because time is measured differently in dreams, if it can be measured at all. My dream research has led me to believe dreams are timeless, and spaceless, even if we experience something…

But Can We Change, Alter, or Fix the Future? — I have been an active dreamer all my life, with vivid dreams transporting me to other realities since I was a little girl. As much as we remember our former selves, we also forget; and as such, I forgot that I was a student of dreams even as a teenager…

A Tale of Nonfiction (from Inside a Dream) — Taking off from an unknown departure port, darkening skies of dusk outside, we begin to cruise at an altitude not quite optimal, and yet I am not afraid. Before this, however, a man in a short-sleeve, plaid button-down shirt plops down next to me just as the plane launches into…

Writing out your dreams amplifies joy and diminishes loneliness — Every night we have the chance to sink into some of the juiciest experiences of our lives, and it happens subconsciously. Naturally, those of us who are actively engaged in remembering our dreams get to spend more “time” in those experiences. I’ve found that dream journaling — the act of…

Or other individuals from your past… — If you are someone with even a moderately active dream life, there is a good chance you’ve had a romantic or sexual dream about an ex. For individuals inside of a committed relationship, these kinds of dreams can bring up all sorts of feelings upon waking: desire, shame, confusion, concern…

Spoiler: They Aren’t. But They May Be Related. — For about as long as I have been tracking my dreams, I have been tracking my migraines. I don’t say “migraine headaches” because my personal experience is less about the notorious headache and more about vision disturbances, nausea, and vertigo. Since I was in my late teens, I’ve been getting…

Dream journaling is an essential and useful tool — In 2018, I interviewed scientist and author Dr. Dean Radin upon the publication of his book Real Magic. At the time, I was occasionally interviewing authors for a newspaper, but I was super excited for this one as it was the first time I would interview a parapsychology researcher. On…

Brief reflections on asteroids, Atlantis, and memory — I’m writing this on 2/22/22, a day I’ve been looking forward to for at least a year, when 2s started showing up for me as synchronicity. I’m a numbers gal, and when the numbers show up, I pay attention. It’s a Thin Line Between Magical Thinking and Mental Illness The magic — and the danger — of looking for patterns in the worldhumanparts.medium.com