What you’ll find here, and where else to find me — My writing on Medium is most often about dreams, dreamwork, memory, perceptions of time, synchronicity, love & longing, healing, and music. There are articles, essays, and poems here on these topics dating back to 2014. I was one of the first writers for Human Parts. I publish three publications on…

But I might practice it with more intention — Lucid dreaming. It’s a currently popular practice (especially among young adults) — along with reality shifting, witchcraft, and erotic fan fiction — that I wish had been accepted and popularized when I was a teen. I’d have gleefully experimented with all those practices as a younger person. Life would have…

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…

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…

A Flash Found Poem — October 23, 1999 was the 296th day of the year 1999 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 69 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday. If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi. …

I. I’m sitting in a Starbucks in South Jersey reading Cavafy’s “Ithaka” and crying. This is because I am finally back home. I don’t remember The Odyssey well enough to know whether Ulysses cried upon his own return. This is the risk of feeding classic literature to teenagers — they…

An Inquiry — How do you know you’re “you” in your dreams? I’m really asking. How do you know? Do you see yourself in a mirror? Do the characters in your dreams call you by name? Do you recognize the room you are in? Does the person next to you look like your…

How to Be Aware of Repeating Events, Dynamics, & Moods — The simplest way of defining cyclical time, especially for the purposes of this article, is the trackable repetition of the events of our lives and history. Most of us already are aware of some very basic examples of cyclical time: the moon phases, the female reproductive cycle, the beginning and…