Unless They Are — I’ve been faithfully tracking my dreams for the past six years. By faithfully, I mean almost daily I write down one or more of my dreams in an app on my phone. I chronicle my dreams in the app as opposed to a notebook due to the convenience of the…

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…

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…

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…

And How I Remembered — For the past month I’ve been moving through an acute health crisis that is not bad enough to keep me from engaging in most regular daily activity, but has created enough discomfort to motivate me to make some lifestyle changes. These lifestyle changes center mainly around diet and foods I…

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…