I’m a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, and consciousness hacker. My work centers on liminal dreaming, the dream states that exist between waking and sleep. As you’re falling asleep, you pass through the hallucinatory, kaleidoscopic state of hypnagogia. As you wake, you experience the soft, drifty state of hypnopompia. In these two states, which together make up liminal dreaming, you fall into the dream realm of the unconscious but you retain enough waking consciousness to know where you are, and to observe what’s happening. We all pass through a limited number of EEG states every day. Liminal dream states are among them. We all experience liminal dreaming. Learning to linger in that state is just a matter of stopping and noticing when it happens. There are a wide range of reasons for exploring liminal dreaming, including creativity, problem solving, physical and mental healing, meditation, deep relaxation, and consciousness exploration.

I also write and speak about oneirogens, anything that promotes vivid dreams, like herbs, roots, foods, practices. In 2009, I started the Oneironauticum, a worldwide slumber party in which people from around the globe would all use the same oneirogen on the same night, creating a slumber party of thousands of people from many different countries all uniting for one night in the common experience of the dream.

I speak and lead workshops at festivals, conferences, and venues worldwide, and have authored numerous pieces about various aspects of dream work. You watch video of my talks or listen to podcasts featuring me and my work at my websites urban dreamscape and liminal dreaming.