Called to all the same themes, are you able to lucid dream? If so, do you remember the first time you did so and under what stresses, internally in the dream and externally in real life, the event transpired?
My interest in history was piqued when I realized my home state Ohio had Neanderthal and mammoth bones, then there's a gap to Hopewell/Adena cultures which also seemed to centralize around the Midwest. Most of these ancient sites are aligned to the stars and solar cycles and were quite prevalent. Learning to see/keep time like ancients and exploring so many local sites has been amazing. I spent most of my adult life have no idea Ohio or America had such deep culture, it's been a blast playing catch up.
Lucid dreaming has been a big part of my life, I’m a lucid dreaming scholar (check out my two volume edited collection, Hurd and Bulkeley 2014 and a lot of my papers on academia.edu) My first lucid dreaming (that I remember) was a series of hypnagogic portals when I was six or seven. The lucid nightmares followed in teen years, which I was able to wrestle with and finally carve out a good relationship with my lucidity by young adulthood. How about you?
Wow! So few people lucid dream, let alone research it.
Most people I found that can lucid dream overcame a traumatic barrier in the dream or in real life that triggers some sort of anger/resignation/breakthrough/taking-back-control and then ability to lucid dream from there on.
I kept getting smashed by a giant in a dream no matter what I did (I could roll back time and try different moves, nothing worked). Then I stopped his massive fist, exhausted with a dream turning into a nightmare and went lucid. Now, anytime my dreams start spinning out of control, into total fear, I get a choice to either change the narrative or leave it all together and fly around a fascinating new world.
Sometimes my dream will go lucid so I'm watching a third person view of myself solving problems while I'm observing. I ask for these dreams and used this technique in college to solve design problems where I can sketch much faster than real life. I'd watch hundreds drawings and when something I liked was there I wake up and draw it.
I'm reading "Unearthing the Paleolithic Mind in Lucid Dreams," and appreciate the emphasis on shamanic integration. Nature speaks if we can listen, so do dreams, but they each use their own language of symbolism you're helping to map.
I’d love to swap readership. 😊 I don’t know much about archaeology, but the perceived states of time on consciousness is a favorite pastime of mine. Nice to meet you!
I’ve become fascinated by archeology thanks to a series on Gaia (“Pyramid Code”) that shifted my ENTIRE conception of the ancient world. I feel newly connected to a society that’s turned out to be lightyears BEYOND where we are in the West.
Very excited to tune in and find out where you’re taking this journey! ✨
Thank you Sam! I love hearing everyone’s “origin story” for getting hooked on archaeology. Mine was a class project on the ancient Pueblo in 5th grade, especially the illustration reconstructions of village life.
Great to see you up and running with this, Ryan! I hope and predict you'll connect organically with the perfect audience, one where your collective mutual fascinations will resonate deeply.
This sounds incredible! For me anthropology & especially prehistory have always felt so naturally spiritual. I fell in love with Neanderthals when I started learning about how similar they were to us. Can't wait to see more.
I've been writing my dreams down almost every day for ten years but I'm still not that good interpretation. Are you going to make a group where we can maybe come together and help one another interpret our dreams? Since alot of my dreams seem to be linked to ecology and the landscape I relate with, I'm going to start incorporating my dreams in to my writing on land practice if anyone wants to subsrcibe/follow.
yes! solo dream interpretation is hard, and prone to self-deception. I love that you are doing place-based work with your dreams. I cultivate a dream sharing community called the Dream Portal where we share dreams, learn from experts and do experiments together. Join us! https://dreamstudies.org/jointhedreamportal
I'm talking about consciousness travel in story on my podcast tomorrow. Great synchronicity! The energies are bringing people together in a quantum jitterbug. (BTW, I am also an Archaeologist. Or, I used to be.) Nice to meet you. :)
This is a topic I am quite interested in, although very novice. Mainly I’ve been recording my own dreams over the past few years in hopes that I can sense the interrelated patterns that arise between my dream state and what occurs in external reality.
That’s cool! sounds like it really enchanted your world. I call that the archaeological origin story. Mine was a diorama of ancient Pueblo village in 5th grade. These days I encourage folks who find artifacts to do a “catch and release” by photographing it, getting the GPS coordinates and then tucking it back or somewhere nearby that won’t get taken by the next hiker.
Yes. So much yes.
My practice is all about waking dreams.
My dreams are always so vivid and bizarre. I’m very excited to learn more from you.
super cool! and talking about our dreams really does encourage them :)
Hey, I like it. Stop by my articles and you’ll see why. I also used to collect rocks when I was little.
Cool as beans! Lucid dreamer and collaborator with the dead.
Love it! Do you use lucidity for visitations, or do visitations spur lucidity, or both?
Called to all the same themes, are you able to lucid dream? If so, do you remember the first time you did so and under what stresses, internally in the dream and externally in real life, the event transpired?
My interest in history was piqued when I realized my home state Ohio had Neanderthal and mammoth bones, then there's a gap to Hopewell/Adena cultures which also seemed to centralize around the Midwest. Most of these ancient sites are aligned to the stars and solar cycles and were quite prevalent. Learning to see/keep time like ancients and exploring so many local sites has been amazing. I spent most of my adult life have no idea Ohio or America had such deep culture, it's been a blast playing catch up.
Lucid dreaming has been a big part of my life, I’m a lucid dreaming scholar (check out my two volume edited collection, Hurd and Bulkeley 2014 and a lot of my papers on academia.edu) My first lucid dreaming (that I remember) was a series of hypnagogic portals when I was six or seven. The lucid nightmares followed in teen years, which I was able to wrestle with and finally carve out a good relationship with my lucidity by young adulthood. How about you?
Wow! So few people lucid dream, let alone research it.
Most people I found that can lucid dream overcame a traumatic barrier in the dream or in real life that triggers some sort of anger/resignation/breakthrough/taking-back-control and then ability to lucid dream from there on.
I kept getting smashed by a giant in a dream no matter what I did (I could roll back time and try different moves, nothing worked). Then I stopped his massive fist, exhausted with a dream turning into a nightmare and went lucid. Now, anytime my dreams start spinning out of control, into total fear, I get a choice to either change the narrative or leave it all together and fly around a fascinating new world.
Sometimes my dream will go lucid so I'm watching a third person view of myself solving problems while I'm observing. I ask for these dreams and used this technique in college to solve design problems where I can sketch much faster than real life. I'd watch hundreds drawings and when something I liked was there I wake up and draw it.
I'm reading "Unearthing the Paleolithic Mind in Lucid Dreams," and appreciate the emphasis on shamanic integration. Nature speaks if we can listen, so do dreams, but they each use their own language of symbolism you're helping to map.
The author of this Substack wrote it, Ryan Hurd.
I’d love to swap readership. 😊 I don’t know much about archaeology, but the perceived states of time on consciousness is a favorite pastime of mine. Nice to meet you!
Thanks and done! Alchemy is something I’m fascinated by as well.
I’ve become fascinated by archeology thanks to a series on Gaia (“Pyramid Code”) that shifted my ENTIRE conception of the ancient world. I feel newly connected to a society that’s turned out to be lightyears BEYOND where we are in the West.
Very excited to tune in and find out where you’re taking this journey! ✨
Thank you Sam! I love hearing everyone’s “origin story” for getting hooked on archaeology. Mine was a class project on the ancient Pueblo in 5th grade, especially the illustration reconstructions of village life.
Great to see you up and running with this, Ryan! I hope and predict you'll connect organically with the perfect audience, one where your collective mutual fascinations will resonate deeply.
Thanks Matt! Feels like a breath of fresh air
This sounds incredible! For me anthropology & especially prehistory have always felt so naturally spiritual. I fell in love with Neanderthals when I started learning about how similar they were to us. Can't wait to see more.
I've been writing my dreams down almost every day for ten years but I'm still not that good interpretation. Are you going to make a group where we can maybe come together and help one another interpret our dreams? Since alot of my dreams seem to be linked to ecology and the landscape I relate with, I'm going to start incorporating my dreams in to my writing on land practice if anyone wants to subsrcibe/follow.
yes! solo dream interpretation is hard, and prone to self-deception. I love that you are doing place-based work with your dreams. I cultivate a dream sharing community called the Dream Portal where we share dreams, learn from experts and do experiments together. Join us! https://dreamstudies.org/jointhedreamportal
Ooh exciting! I’m very much exploring imagination, dreams, archaeology, myth, cosmology… Lets share fieldnotes! Just started a podcast here https://open.substack.com/pub/imaginalfieldwalkers
Thanks for the introduction Substack! ✨
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I'm talking about consciousness travel in story on my podcast tomorrow. Great synchronicity! The energies are bringing people together in a quantum jitterbug. (BTW, I am also an Archaeologist. Or, I used to be.) Nice to meet you. :)
This is a topic I am quite interested in, although very novice. Mainly I’ve been recording my own dreams over the past few years in hopes that I can sense the interrelated patterns that arise between my dream state and what occurs in external reality.
That’s cool! sounds like it really enchanted your world. I call that the archaeological origin story. Mine was a diorama of ancient Pueblo village in 5th grade. These days I encourage folks who find artifacts to do a “catch and release” by photographing it, getting the GPS coordinates and then tucking it back or somewhere nearby that won’t get taken by the next hiker.