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Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep Kindle Edition

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A consciousness and dream hacker explains how to use liminal dreaming—the dreams that come between sleep and waking—for self-actualization and consciousness expansion.
At the edges of consciousness, between waking and sleeping, there’s a swirling, free associative state of mind that is the domain of liminal dreams. Working with liminal dreams can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression, help to heal trauma, and aid creativity and problem-solving.

As we sink into slumber, we pass through hypnagogia, the first of the two liminal dream states. In this transitional zone, memories, perceptions, and imaginings arise in a fast moving, hallucinatory, semi-conscious remix. On the other end of the night, as we wake, we experience hypnopompia—the hazy, pleasant, drift that is the other liminal dream state. 

Readers of Liminal Dreaming will learn step-by-step how to create a dream practice outside of REM-sleep states that they can incorporate into their lives in personally meaningful ways. Liminal dreaming practice is also far easier to learn than lucid dreaming practice, making it possible for the reader to begin working with these dreams this very night.
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“Jennifer Dumpert is a dream scholar, dream hacker, dream weaver. If you’ve ever been curious to learn more about the cosmos behind your eyelids, the realms you visit every night, let her be your guide.”
—JASON SILVA, host of National Geographic’s Brain Games
 
“Falling asleep is not a loss of consciousness but an offering from the psyche to anyone with the wisdom to accept it. Jennifer Dumpert is pointing the way to a door that’s already open—one more accessible, sustainable, and transformational than any drug or virtual reality.”
—DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, author of Team Human
 
“With patience, clarity, and insight Jennifer Dumpert, a seasoned dreamer, leads us through this land of hypnos, making available to the reader a third state of consciousness: neither day nor night but somewhere on the edge of both, a place of creativity, intuition, and vision. Many books put their readers to sleep. This one can take you to the edge of it and leave you there to dream.”
—GARY LACHMAN, author of A Secret History of Consciousness
 
“Liminal Dreaming provides us with an array of personal exercises—a pragmatic vehicle for directly experiencing this ‘wild psychedelic ride’ through imagination, mystery, creativity, and healing. By reminding us of the natural continuity between waking and dreams, this work reminds us of our own innate wholeness."
—RUBIN NAIMAN, PhD, clinical assistant professor of medicine, University of Arizona’s Center for Integrative Medicine

About the Author

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 developed the concept and practice of Liminal Dreaming--surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states. Dumpert has lectured and led workshops at festivals, conferences, and venues such as Summit at Sea, Lightning in a Bottle, Symbiosis, Breaking Convention in London, Entheogenesis in Melbourne, Australia, the Women's Visionary Congress, the Transformative Technology Conference, Esalen Institute, Ojai Institute, the New Living Expo, the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and Synergenesis. She has also taught online classes on Liminal Dreaming through the Evolver Network, and has appeared on radio shows and podcasts such as Expanding Mind, on the Progressive Radio Network, The Daily Beat, on BTR Today, C Realm, and the Dream Studies podcast.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07D22SH1V
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books (May 28, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 28, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3638 KB
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Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, and consciousness hacker. She is an author, speaker, and avid dreamer. In 2009, Jennifer founded the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. On the same night, remote participants from around the world use the same oneirogen--any herb, root, technology, practice, scent, sound, or whatever promotes vivid dreams--creating a worldwide slumber party, a night when people around the globe unite as a community of dreamers.

Much of Jennifer's work focuses on liminal dreams, the unique experience of mind that lies between awake and asleep. As you sink into slumber, you pass through hypnagogia. As you wake, you experience hypnopompia. We think of awake and asleep as binary, but in fact there's a spectrum of experience between the two, a swirling, kaleidoscopic, free-associative zone of dreams that are unlike REM dreams, and that can be used for a wide variety of purposes, either for work or for play.

Jennifer posts a dream a day on twitter as @oneirofer, and has done so since January of 2009. You can learn more about her work at http://www.liminaldreaming.com.

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TW
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
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Well written and inspiring way to learn a different aspect of dreaming.
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JBartenhagen
5.0 out of 5 stars This book will make you want to dream more!
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2019
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Whether you're a long-time dreamer or newer to the mysterious workings of your sleeping mind, you'll find something here that will make you want to do more with your dreams. I love what the author shares about her own dream experiences, the practices she's built, and the many practical tools she offers for improving your own experiences. It's a lovely read, if you're a front-to-back reader like me, with a good mix of science, history (don't you want to know what Dali did to foster his dreams?), and anecdotes, but it's the author's enthusiasm for the subject that makes me love this book. I want to dream more, dream deeper, and encourage my mind to play more while I'm asleep. Sleep more, dream more!
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christine meier
4.0 out of 5 stars Important area of consciousness explored
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2020
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An interesting introduction and exploration of an area of consciousness called by the author "Liminal", which is scientifically recognised (hypnogogic and hypnopompic states) but rarely utilised for growth, therapy and even spiritual development. As with lucid dreaming and todays renovated interested in psychedelics, (amongst the various other states touched upon in the book), the subject deserves further attention to which the author contributes simply and with enthusiasm.
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Paul Abramson, MD
5.0 out of 5 stars An important book
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2019
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Jennifer Dumpert makes an important contribution to the study of sleep and dreams by exploring and illustrating the often-overlooked liminal states. An engaging read with practical information as well as fascinating stories, everyone with an interest in sleep, dreams, consciousness and healing should get themselves a copy forthwith. I often have a book displayed in my office at the end of the bookshelf for visitors to notice, and Liminal Dreaming has held that spot longer than any in the last few years.
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Marie Hanna
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2023
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This is one of the best dreaming books I've ever read I totally highly recommend this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book
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This is one of the best dreaming books I've ever read I totally highly recommend this book.
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tonx konecny
5.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking look at states of consciousness we all experience but rarely capture.
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019
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An endlessly fascinating look into a subject as ubiquitous as it is poorly understood. We all experience these hypnagogic dream states but our scientific, and even our philosophical, understanding of them is in it’s infancy. Dumpert takes you down the rabbit hole, sidestepping too much woo, and connects the dots on how artists, visionaries, and inventors over the ages have tapped this strange and often ignored aspect of consciousness. We get an overview of the latest science around dream states and the book provides practical advise for improving your access to and recall of these states. It will certainly increase your awareness and appreciation for the astronomical weirdness of your own mind.
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GeM
5.0 out of 5 stars Master your experience by tapping into your creative potential
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2020
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Master more of your life experience with the ability to utilize your liminal dream state for creativity and more. This book is amazing and a must read for those that are conscious to the many outlets we are able to utilize and tap into. Ancient technology, if you will and the basis for many rites and dream practices of ancient civilizations, to include Egyptians and dream seeding. Highly recommended if it calls to you and resonates
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Gail Cornwall
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but too loosey goosey for me
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2019
According to Jennifer Dumpert, hypnagogia and hypnopompia, those pseudo-lucid moments experienced on the cusp of falling asleep and waking up, respectively, “you can channel for creativity or problem solving, use as a form of metacognition to explore your thought processes, or simply play with as a form of consciousness exploration.” Her book contains exercises to make the most of liminal dreaming after explaining that this time is uniquely fertile “because different modes of thought come together …. The logical, linear, and focused part of your mind remains active to varying degrees. But you’re also dreaming, adrift among intuitive, visual, emotional thought processes and associations.”

“[T]hink of the conscious mind like the land, known and solid, and the unconscious mind like the ocean, deep and largely unknown. At the threshold area where ocean and land meet, the waves become churning and wild. That’s where people surf. Similarly, liminal dreaming is where you surf the edges of consciousness.”

Dumpert’s style - less scientific and more, um, alternative - requires an open mind, as the following characteristic passage will demonstrate:

“Many people believe that the dream world is an actual other place where we can literally meet other dreamers or visit places that exist objectively, not just subjectively in our own minds. I neither believe nor disbelieve this. I try to avoid belief as much as possible.”

And the book’s repetitive and meandering manner will frustrate those attempting a cover-to-cover read. Which isn’t to say there’s nothing to it. I just came away thinking the truly important bits could have been more fruitfully covered with a focused, shorter telling. I slept on it and landed in the same place.

(Gail Cornwall is a former lawyer and public school teacher who now works as a stay-at-home mother and freelance writer in San Francisco.)
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Dale Mokrey
5.0 out of 5 stars Well thought out and written.
Reviewed in Canada on August 21, 2022
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The author is brilliant, IMHO. Her book has helped me explore a new way of dreaming!
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Cliente Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, complete but hands-on take on hypnagogia and everything Liminal Dreaming
Reviewed in Italy on April 28, 2021
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Very nicely written, this books stems directly from the experience of the author. There are numerous sources reported throughout the book, that help dive deeper into the various topics and access a deeper comprehension of them. The various techniques proposed are easy to apply and quite hard to master - or, at least, they will take time to reach their potential, as expected from a practice. At the same time, many of them are quite similar, I'd have appreciated a bigger variety.
Thank you so much for your inspiring work in this pretty much unexplored field!
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2020
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