About
Some years ago I began to have lucid dreams and out of body experiences every night. For many years before that, my approach to understanding consciousness included perennial philosophy, rigorous breathwork, simple meditation practices, and art. But everything changed when my dreams took hold of the roots of perception, both at night and during the day. In the beginning of my life I tried to understand reality in order to escape pain and suffering. In my middle years, joining a monastery, the search for truth was to reach enlightenment. Now, my journey has become more about simply finding a place to put the things I perceive, often because they have nowhere else to go.
Recently I published a very cumbersome and technical thesis, based on dreaming, outlining a new kind of cosmology and ontological methodology for navigating reality. I think the synopsis alone will scare away any potential readers, thought it also gives a good general basis for many of the articles in this collection. So, I will include it below as a kind of general introduction. If you are crazy enough to read it, and crazier still to slog through any of my writings, then certainly I will feel a little less alone in this vast expanse of a cosmos we both somehow inhabit in the same ontological vicinity (more or less).
Synopsis
This work will present a foundational cosmology in which reality originates from an overvoid characterized by absolute movement, change, and relationality. The physical universe is understood as a coherent phase state produced by dreaming itself, where dreams function as wave functions and probability formulas that engender universes. Primeval distortions of pure information create dimensions, archetypes, and reservoirs of time and perception, establishing dreaming as an ecological dynamic fundamental to universal existence rather than merely cognitive or somatic function. This is what dreaming is, which includes a spectrum of sub and super lucidity, the generation of mass and form, sentient reincarnation, and the liberation of perception across a persistent transpersonal memory complex.
The nature of dreaming is always reframed as a continuous, multidirectional process. All sentient creatures and abiotic matter possess dormant dreaming capacity, and are always dreaming, because that is what reality is. Waking reality represents just one expression of this ongoing process. Dreams simultaneously flow across, within, and beyond personal/local and cosmic/nonlocal stopgaps. This challenges, among other things, conventional distinctions between conscious and unconscious states. What is traditionally called the "unconscious" is actually the dormant objectification of inner senses, particularly the active function of dreaming itself. Consciousness is more real in dreams than when awake, as waking represents a derivative, reflexive condition in which physical reality becomes a cosmological limit, permitting but also inhibiting localized experience.
Lucidity operates as the mechanism reconciling primeval and derivative states of consciousness. It functions as connective tissue between singular consciousness and fragmented physical existence, with power and lucidity being nearly synonymous—representing agency, freedom, and continuity across all possible existences. Lucidity is generated through dissolution at death and consumed through birth into physical form.
Individuals, groups, and highly organized ecological forms, through lucidity, host a primeval self—a transpersonal engine designed for interdimensional communication and travel. It is this structure which processes vital memory and formless volition, maintaining a database of living transpersonal memory and archetypal desires while straddling thresholds between incarnations.
The path to dreaming with power requires achieving primeval equivalency through personal and objective blocks. Practitioners must overcome personal conditioning, unprocessed trauma, and blocked perception by questioning reality, hunting for dissociated energy, and forging transpersonal pathways. This process gradually develops a transpersonal memory complex that replaces the physical body as consciousness's center of gravity. The three main types of instability or fragmentation that obstruct dreaming include: psychosomatic accumulation, environmental and social degradation, and loss of ancestral faculties. Modern civilization has experienced a profound "lobotomization" of dream capacity through loss of traditions and environmental harm. Personal and collective trauma represents arrested dream movements that must be metabolized across lifetimes, potentially including inherited experiences from other timelines, bodies, and species.
Central to this cosmology are the void and overvoid: dimensional thresholds that define the boundaries of various existences. The void functions as a zero-dimensional hyperspace and cosmic threshing machine that translates matter and energy into pure information, requiring a developed transpersonal memory complex to cross without losing memory or coherence. Beyond this lies an overvoid of pure primeval lucidity, a realm of formless transobjectivity and unity where every conceivable point of reference becomes simultaneously accessible. Capacity to perceive and enter these realms validates experiences universally and potentiates manifestations in physical reality.
For an incarnate being, this potentiation also represents the possibility for a complete metamorphosis through inversion of primeval and derivative laws within the physical body. The overvoid becomes the anchorpoint while the physical body becomes a direct extension of primeval law, creating a subjective cosmological singularity where consciousness directly inhabits matter. This state can manifest as the body radiating subatomic force, autonomic systems becoming lucid and entangled with nonlocal fields, and a constant superposition of internal, external, and transpersonal perception.
Practically, lucidity cultivates wellbeing, love, and expanded awareness of interconnection while enabling healing of trauma, retrieval of information from nonphysical ecologies, and communication with disincarnated beings, such as one’s ancestor or future offspring. Dreamers can explore different universes, timelines, and dimensions with varying physical laws. However, a new science of dreaming is needed that embraces consciousness alongside quantum mechanics and classical physics, making these primeval dynamics more experienceable and provable through lucid dreams. This work has argued that modern civilization's orientation to reality is fundamentally inverted, and that recovering dreaming capacity could transform ethics, purpose, and social and environmental responsibility overnight. Society organized around lucid dreamers as leaders would align with cosmic evolution, as dreaming represents not mental activity but the primary mechanism through which the cosmos knows itself, evolves, and perpetuates its existence through the participation of conscious beings. With this final consideration in mind, hopefully this manuscript has been a stimulating and provocative journey to deepen understanding of the nature, purpose, and mechanics of dreaming. May your dreams be strong and your perception ever lucid.
