Do dreams happen in our minds? What can lucid dreaming tell us about the nature of consciousness?

Dave Green is a London-based artist who creates drawings not FROM his dreams, but IN his dreams, which he re-creates upon waking. He’s the author of Doodles In the Dark: An Artist's Guide to Lucid Dreaming & has participated in lucid & precognitive dream research with my other guest, Damon Abraham, PhD, a parapsychologist & the principal research scientist for the consciousness mobile app Entangled.

In this episode, Dave shows us how he uses lucid dreaming to create art WHILE he’s dreaming & Dr. Abraham unpacks the science of the research behind it. You’ll hear about the layers of lucid dreaming, when it becomes an out of body experience & how this may be connected to precognition, the debate about where consciousness lives & why Dave is hesitant to label himself as anything other than a lucid dreaming artist.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 308: HOW TO THINK IMPOSSIBLY: PRECOGNITION, POLTERGEISTS & TIME

Guests:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEf56ussbNkUwXYOBjNQIqg

https://www.instagram.com/davegreen5000/

https://x.com/davegreen5000

https://www.linkedin.com/in/damon-abraham-phd/

https://entangled.org/

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0:00 — Dreams as Art: Meet Dave Green & Dr. Damon Abraham

1:06 — Drawing Inside a Lucid Dream

3:02 — Waking Yourself Up On Purpose

3:26 — What Lucid Dreaming Actually Is

5:02 — Control vs. Awareness in the Dream State

7:04 — How Both Guests Discovered Lucid Dreaming

8:56 — Is a Nightmare Origin Story the Norm?

10:10 — Lucid Dreaming vs. Out-of-Body Experiences

12:08 — Why "OBE" Is a Loaded Label

15:03 — Do Dreams Happen Inside Your Head?

18:23 — Researcher Hat vs. Experiencer Hat

19:40 — Damon's OBE: The Bathroom Journal Story

22:26 — The Lottie Dream Portrait Walkthrough

28:22 — Precognition & Verifying What You See

29:41 — Did the Telepathy Tapes Help This Research?

32:14 — Lucid Dreaming Is More Common Than You Think

35:11 — Brainwaves During a Lucid Dream

36:20 — How Dave Navigates Dream Scenery

39:11 — Dave's Portrait Technique

41:23 — The Precognition Experiment Explained

45:18 — The Temptation to Avoid Uncomfortable Conclusions

48:50 — Is the Brain Generating or Receiving Consciousness?

51:21 — Has This Changed How You See Reality?

54:55 — The Real-World Utility of Lucid Dreaming

58:16 — Dave's Dream Yoga Practice

1:00:53 — Third Person Dreams & What They Mean

1:01:44 — Giving a Dream Character a Pen

1:04:57 — Why You Should Start a Dream Journal

1:06:12 — Dave's Book & Dream Portraits

1:07:33 — Damon's Entangled App

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