Ryan Hurd
Ryan's recent dream research focuses on lucid dreaming, sacred sites, the anthropology of dreaming, and sleep paralysis. DreamStudies.org
Ecodreaming and Finding Home: the Case of the Bedrock Mortar
We don’t live our lives in a vacuum, but embedded in the natural world.
Of course it can be hard to get past our cultural and personal blinders, that ever-present cognitive domestication of 21st century life.
Enter ecodreaming.… Read the rest
Lucid dreamwork: Healing the Snake Axis
This is the last article in a series about snake dreams. By now, the DreamTribe has explored the meaning of snake dreams from many perspectives: historical, archetypal, snakes as initiation, snakes as earth wisdom, and even how to cultivate your… Read the rest
My Training as a Dream Warrior
A few years ago I realized I’d been unconsciously living out my life according to the plot of A Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors.
This 1987 slasher flick centers around a young woman named Kristen (Patricia Arquette… Read the rest
Waiting In The Lucid Void
Since I was a child, I have had conscious dream experiences that take place in immense, spacious realms. Sometimes these spaces are truly voids and my own dream body does not exist. Other times, these spaces fill up with abstract… Read the rest
Balancing Curing and Healing in Modern Medicine
What is the universal symbol for medicine?
Chances are, you thought of the caduceus – a staff with two snakes spiraling up, flanked with two outspread wings. Used today by thousands of doctors and medical associations, including the US Surgeon… Read the rest
