Rabbit Hole

Dreamy radio. Thirty minutes of craven lusty anguished interiority and writer Rodger Kamenetz’ “authentic self.”

Wrote this for The New Scientist . It summarizes some of the different states of consciousness we pass through over the day and night.

Fun talk with writer scholar Erik Davis, including riffs on hypnagogia, lucid dreaming, scientific vs spiritual knowledge, the role of science journalists in describing the nature of reality, how ocean may shape mind, and more.

Jennifer Dumpert teaches a course on dreaming at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. A short video interview I did for her class, talking all about Aristotle and houses on wheels and “memory catching” Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.

The hypnagogic state is perfect for problem solving. The question is: how do you retrieve solutions when you are charging into sleep, the notorious memory-obliterator? Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali each had one answer …