Dreamhacking describes forms of dream work conceived by me - author and teacher Jennifer Dumpert. Dreamhacking encompasses...
--> Liminal Dreaming: Hypnagogia--the drifty trance state you experience as you fall asleep or when you nap--and hypnopompia—the same thing as you slowly wake up—are hypnoidal dream states. Liminal dreaming is a way of working with hypnoidal dreams. Like lucid dreaming (bu
t a lot easier to practice), liminal dreaming offers a way to experiment with consciousness, to coast the edges of imagination and dream, thought and hallucination, conscious and unconscious mind.
--> Oneironauticum: This international dream group practices dreaming with --any herb, practice, substance, sound, or scent that promotes or enhances dream states.
--> Urban Dreamscape: A practice of weaving dreams into architecture, turning the urban landscape into a dream journal. Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and lecturer, and the founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. She also teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming—surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states. Jennifer has lectured and led workshops at festivals, conferences, and venues such as Summit at Sea, Lightning in a Bottle, Symbiosis, the Women’s Visionary Congress, Esalen Institute, Ojai Institute, Psymposia, and Priceless. She wrote “Meeting in Dream Worlds: Oneironauticum”, a chapter in Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness Liminal Zones, Psychic Science, and the Hidden Dimensions of the Mind, published by Evolver Editions. She offered a six week class through Evolver called “Expand your Mind: How to Work with Liminal Dream States”. She contributes to Van Winkle’s, and has published in Dreamflesh, Dream Time, and Reality Sandwich. She is involved in the Consciousness Hacking movement and has presented at CH SF, CH NYC, and the Transformational Technology conference. Jennifer serves as secretary on the board of directors for Erowid Center. She posts a daily dream to Twitter as .
