Dream Studies Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/dream-studies What if consciousness studies were to make it out of the academic journals and into your life? That’s the guiding ethos of the Dream Studies Podcast – to support ways of knowing that integrate the best of 21st century thought with the intuitive skills prized by our ancestors: dreams, visions and the imagination. © 2026 Dream Studies Press 6df3af32-7a84-5ae7-b150-fd030680faf2 yes en Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:57:04 -0400 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:57:16 -0400 https://img.transistorcdn.com/WJ1Sv4SfKWF6xNSR1yqGw1gp4OaDxDmkfWOfG-Il9HU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZTc2/ZGY3MzA0ZjRkYWJm/NTVkNjFhMDI1ZGEw/YWI5NS5wbmc.jpg Dream Studies episodic Ryan D. Hurd What if consciousness studies were to make it out of the academic journals and into your life? That’s the guiding ethos of the Dream Studies Podcast – to support ways of knowing that integrate the best of 21st century thought with the intuitive skills prized by our ancestors: dreams, visions and the imagination. What if consciousness studies were to make it out of the academic journals and into your life. dream studies, consciousness research, lucid dreaming, dreamwork, psychology of dreams, dream science Ryan D. Hurd No No Inter-dimensional performance art and lucid precognition with Dave Green S1:E3 3 3 Inter-dimensional performance art and lucid precognition with Dave Green S1:E3 full a968b289-a041-4f3c-8134-304e1ba375ea https://share.transistor.fm/s/251eee1d In this episode, Ryan sits down with London-based lucid dreaming artist Dave Green to explore what he calls "inter-dimensional performance art," an extraordinary practice of creating artwork directly inside his lucid dreams, which he then recreates upon waking. Along the way, they discuss the implications of precognitive dreams for the nature of time, fate and reality, and also solve the mystery of the true ending of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan.

In this episode: 

  • How Dave's professional artistic training and interest in lucid dreaming came together to create a new form of inter-dimensional performance art. 
  • What happened when Dave channeled anger while interacting in a lucid dream, leading to deeper questions about emotional expression 
  • Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge makes an appearance in Dave's dream, and decisively finishes his famous poem. 
  • Can lucid dream drawings predict images sent the following day? Dave teams up with neuroscientist and a skeptic with interesting, and statistically significant, results. 
  • Competing theories on the nuts and bolts of precognition in dreams. Is it fate or can we influence the future? 

Guest: Dave Green | Instagram: @davegreen5000 | Website: dave-green.co.uk

Book: Doodles in the Dark: An Artist's Guide to Lucid Dreaming (UK exclusive)
Documentary Short: The Dreaming Pen (World Science Festival)
Featured in: BBC Science Focus, Dreamtime Magazine, Tate Modern
Research: Future dreams of electric sleep: Case study of a possible precognitive lucid dreamer with AI scoring (2025). International Journal of Dream Research 18(2)

About the host: Ryan D. Hurd is a dream researcher, author, and holistic educator. The Dream Studies Podcast explores dreams, consciousness, and the imagination, bridging 21st century science with intuitive ways of knowing. More to explore at DreamStudies.org

Original music and art by Eldest Child (c) 2026

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]]> In this episode, Ryan sits down with London-based lucid dreaming artist Dave Green to explore what he calls "inter-dimensional performance art," an extraordinary practice of creating artwork directly inside his lucid dreams, which he then recreates upon waking. Along the way, they discuss the implications of precognitive dreams for the nature of time, fate and reality, and also solve the mystery of the true ending of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan.

In this episode: 

  • How Dave's professional artistic training and interest in lucid dreaming came together to create a new form of inter-dimensional performance art. 
  • What happened when Dave channeled anger while interacting in a lucid dream, leading to deeper questions about emotional expression 
  • Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge makes an appearance in Dave's dream, and decisively finishes his famous poem. 
  • Can lucid dream drawings predict images sent the following day? Dave teams up with neuroscientist and a skeptic with interesting, and statistically significant, results. 
  • Competing theories on the nuts and bolts of precognition in dreams. Is it fate or can we influence the future? 

Guest: Dave Green | Instagram: @davegreen5000 | Website: dave-green.co.uk

Book: Doodles in the Dark: An Artist's Guide to Lucid Dreaming (UK exclusive)
Documentary Short: The Dreaming Pen (World Science Festival)
Featured in: BBC Science Focus, Dreamtime Magazine, Tate Modern
Research: Future dreams of electric sleep: Case study of a possible precognitive lucid dreamer with AI scoring (2025). International Journal of Dream Research 18(2)

About the host: Ryan D. Hurd is a dream researcher, author, and holistic educator. The Dream Studies Podcast explores dreams, consciousness, and the imagination, bridging 21st century science with intuitive ways of knowing. More to explore at DreamStudies.org

Original music and art by Eldest Child (c) 2026

Subscribe to get notified when the next episode drops. This a slow publishing project by design, with new episodes every two weeks or so. 

]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:04:29 -0400 Ryan D. Hurd Ryan D. Hurd 2204 In this episode, Ryan sits down with London-based lucid dreaming artist Dave Green to explore what he calls "inter-dimensional performance art," an extraordinary practice of creating artwork directly inside his lucid dreams, which he then recreates upon waking. Along the way, they discuss the implications of precognitive dreams for the nature of time, fate and reality, and also solve the mystery of the true ending of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan.

In this episode: 

  • How Dave's professional artistic training and interest in lucid dreaming came together to create a new form of inter-dimensional performance art. 
  • What happened when Dave channeled anger while interacting in a lucid dream, leading to deeper questions about emotional expression 
  • Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge makes an appearance in Dave's dream, and decisively finishes his famous poem. 
  • Can lucid dream drawings predict images sent the following day? Dave teams up with neuroscientist and a skeptic with interesting, and statistically significant, results. 
  • Competing theories on the nuts and bolts of precognition in dreams. Is it fate or can we influence the future? 

Guest: Dave Green | Instagram: @davegreen5000 | Website: dave-green.co.uk

Book: Doodles in the Dark: An Artist's Guide to Lucid Dreaming (UK exclusive)
Documentary Short: The Dreaming Pen (World Science Festival)
Featured in: BBC Science Focus, Dreamtime Magazine, Tate Modern
Research: Future dreams of electric sleep: Case study of a possible precognitive lucid dreamer with AI scoring (2025). International Journal of Dream Research 18(2)

About the host: Ryan D. Hurd is a dream researcher, author, and holistic educator. The Dream Studies Podcast explores dreams, consciousness, and the imagination, bridging 21st century science with intuitive ways of knowing. More to explore at DreamStudies.org

Original music and art by Eldest Child (c) 2026

Subscribe to get notified when the next episode drops. This a slow publishing project by design, with new episodes every two weeks or so. 

]]> dream studies, consciousness research, lucid dreaming, dreamwork, psychology of dreams, dream science No Out-of-Body Experiences with Samantha Lee Treasure S1:E2 2 2 Out-of-Body Experiences with Samantha Lee Treasure S1:E2 full ca23059e-cd5b-4cb6-a958-665d1e15e2fa https://share.transistor.fm/s/cff8d2d9 Ryan D. Hurd sits down with medical anthropologist and author Samantha Lee Treasure to explore the fascinating and often misunderstood world of out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Samantha shares how growing up on a reportedly haunted farm in Ontario set her on a lifelong path of researching consciousness beyond the body.

 In this episode:

  • How a veridical cherry cheesecake sparked Samantha's career in anthropology
  • The surprising variation in OBE content 
  • Haunting narratives and astral projection
  • How OBEs differ from lucid dreams and why the line can be blurry
  • The "astral marketplace" and the wellness world's complicated relationship with OBEs
  • Gen Z's reality shifting phenomenon, a new culturally shaped altered state for the streaming generation
  • Samantha's ongoing "Future Tokyo" OBE experiences: a consistent, semi-dystopian world she's been visiting since age three

Samantha's new book: Out-of-Body Experiences: Explorations and Encounters with the Astral Plane

Find Samantha online:
Blog: zombiesinpjs.com
Instagram: @astral_anthropology
YouTube: @SamanthaLeeTreasure

]]> Ryan D. Hurd sits down with medical anthropologist and author Samantha Lee Treasure to explore the fascinating and often misunderstood world of out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Samantha shares how growing up on a reportedly haunted farm in Ontario set her on a lifelong path of researching consciousness beyond the body.

 In this episode:

  • How a veridical cherry cheesecake sparked Samantha's career in anthropology
  • The surprising variation in OBE content 
  • Haunting narratives and astral projection
  • How OBEs differ from lucid dreams and why the line can be blurry
  • The "astral marketplace" and the wellness world's complicated relationship with OBEs
  • Gen Z's reality shifting phenomenon, a new culturally shaped altered state for the streaming generation
  • Samantha's ongoing "Future Tokyo" OBE experiences: a consistent, semi-dystopian world she's been visiting since age three

Samantha's new book: Out-of-Body Experiences: Explorations and Encounters with the Astral Plane

Find Samantha online:
Blog: zombiesinpjs.com
Instagram: @astral_anthropology
YouTube: @SamanthaLeeTreasure

]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 16:42:00 -0400 Ryan D. Hurd Ryan D. Hurd 3039 Ryan D. Hurd sits down with medical anthropologist and author Samantha Lee Treasure to explore the fascinating and often misunderstood world of out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Samantha shares how growing up on a reportedly haunted farm in Ontario set her on a lifelong path of researching consciousness beyond the body.

 In this episode:

  • How a veridical cherry cheesecake sparked Samantha's career in anthropology
  • The surprising variation in OBE content 
  • Haunting narratives and astral projection
  • How OBEs differ from lucid dreams and why the line can be blurry
  • The "astral marketplace" and the wellness world's complicated relationship with OBEs
  • Gen Z's reality shifting phenomenon, a new culturally shaped altered state for the streaming generation
  • Samantha's ongoing "Future Tokyo" OBE experiences: a consistent, semi-dystopian world she's been visiting since age three

Samantha's new book: Out-of-Body Experiences: Explorations and Encounters with the Astral Plane

Find Samantha online:
Blog: zombiesinpjs.com
Instagram: @astral_anthropology
YouTube: @SamanthaLeeTreasure

]]> out-of-body experiences, astral projection, OBE, soul travel, consciousness studies, shadow figures, sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, Samantha Lee Treasure No The State of Dream Studies with Nicoline Douwes Isema S1:1 1 1 The State of Dream Studies with Nicoline Douwes Isema S1:1 full ca0f7469-94ca-47fa-88f5-f6cbf8fd342f https://share.transistor.fm/s/41bff0be In the inaugural episode of the Dream Studies Podcast, host Ryan D. Hurd sits down with dream research expert Nicoline Douwes Isema for a wide-ranging conversation about where the field of dream studies stands today.. and where it's headed.

Topics covered:

  • The "democratization of dreaming" — why your dreams belong to you, not an authority figure
  • How 100+ years of psychiatry and psychology inadvertently took dream ownership away from everyday people
  • The role of AI in dream interpretation: pattern recognition vs. meaning-making, and how to use it wisely
  • Wearables, sleep trackers, and cognitive freedom — empowering people through data about their own sleep
  • How dream sharing strengthens emotional connection (and yes, sexual intimacy) in relationships
  • Team dreaming and collective dream work — dreaming together as a creative problem-solving tool
  • Synchronicities: why keeping a dream journal puts rare experiences in perspective
  • A "tiny revolution" in how we talk about and relate to our dreams

Guest: Nicoline Isema | thinkinginyoursleep.com | Instagram | LinkedIn 

Resources mentioned:

About the host: Ryan D. Hurd is a dream researcher, author, and holistic educator. The Dream Studies Podcast explores dreams, consciousness, and the imagination, bridging 21st century science with intuitive ways of knowing.

Original music and art by Eldest Child (c) 2026

Subscribe to get notified when the next episode drops. This a slow publishing project by design, with new episodes every two weeks or so. 

]]> In the inaugural episode of the Dream Studies Podcast, host Ryan D. Hurd sits down with dream research expert Nicoline Douwes Isema for a wide-ranging conversation about where the field of dream studies stands today.. and where it's headed.

Topics covered:

  • The "democratization of dreaming" — why your dreams belong to you, not an authority figure
  • How 100+ years of psychiatry and psychology inadvertently took dream ownership away from everyday people
  • The role of AI in dream interpretation: pattern recognition vs. meaning-making, and how to use it wisely
  • Wearables, sleep trackers, and cognitive freedom — empowering people through data about their own sleep
  • How dream sharing strengthens emotional connection (and yes, sexual intimacy) in relationships
  • Team dreaming and collective dream work — dreaming together as a creative problem-solving tool
  • Synchronicities: why keeping a dream journal puts rare experiences in perspective
  • A "tiny revolution" in how we talk about and relate to our dreams

Guest: Nicoline Isema | thinkinginyoursleep.com | Instagram | LinkedIn 

Resources mentioned:

About the host: Ryan D. Hurd is a dream researcher, author, and holistic educator. The Dream Studies Podcast explores dreams, consciousness, and the imagination, bridging 21st century science with intuitive ways of knowing.

Original music and art by Eldest Child (c) 2026

Subscribe to get notified when the next episode drops. This a slow publishing project by design, with new episodes every two weeks or so. 

]]> Fri, 08 May 2026 12:03:14 -0400 Ryan D. Hurd Ryan D. Hurd 2967 In the inaugural episode of the Dream Studies Podcast, host Ryan D. Hurd sits down with dream research expert Nicoline Douwes Isema for a wide-ranging conversation about where the field of dream studies stands today.. and where it's headed.

Topics covered:

  • The "democratization of dreaming" — why your dreams belong to you, not an authority figure
  • How 100+ years of psychiatry and psychology inadvertently took dream ownership away from everyday people
  • The role of AI in dream interpretation: pattern recognition vs. meaning-making, and how to use it wisely
  • Wearables, sleep trackers, and cognitive freedom — empowering people through data about their own sleep
  • How dream sharing strengthens emotional connection (and yes, sexual intimacy) in relationships
  • Team dreaming and collective dream work — dreaming together as a creative problem-solving tool
  • Synchronicities: why keeping a dream journal puts rare experiences in perspective
  • A "tiny revolution" in how we talk about and relate to our dreams

Guest: Nicoline Isema | thinkinginyoursleep.com | Instagram | LinkedIn 

Resources mentioned:

About the host: Ryan D. Hurd is a dream researcher, author, and holistic educator. The Dream Studies Podcast explores dreams, consciousness, and the imagination, bridging 21st century science with intuitive ways of knowing.

Original music and art by Eldest Child (c) 2026

Subscribe to get notified when the next episode drops. This a slow publishing project by design, with new episodes every two weeks or so. 

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