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What happens when two seasoned DMT explorers turn their attention to lucid dreaming and synchronicity? In this episode of Connecting with Coincidence, Bernie Beitman, MD, speaks with writer and psychonaut David Jay Brown and artist researcher Sara Phinn Huntley about what it really means to wake up inside your dreams and how those experiences may connect to the larger field of meaningful coincidences.
Together they explore a clear, grounded answer to the question “What is lucid dreaming?” David describes lucid dreams as fully immersive, three dimensional worlds where you realize you are asleep while the dream is still unfolding. You can fly, experiment, talk with teachers, and even address the intelligence behind the dream itself. Sara adds a Tibetan dream yoga perspective, where lucid dreaming becomes a spiritual practice for self reflection, catharsis, and insight into the idea that life itself may be a kind of larger dream.
David Jay Brown is the author of The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities, Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing and Psychedelics, and The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality. He is also coauthor of seven bestselling interview collections with leading edge thinkers, including Mavericks of the Mind and Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness. Trained in psychobiology at New York University, he has conducted research with Rupert Sheldrake and published in Wired, Discover, and Scientific American.
Sara Phinn Huntley is an artist, writer, and researcher who has spent two decades exploring psychedelics, technology, and philosophy. A dedicated DMT psychonaut and hyperspace cartographer, she develops virtual reality tools for psychedelic exploration and uses chaos mathematics, Islamic geometry, and 3D performance capture to document DMT revealed states. Her work has been published by MAPS and featured in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics and in David Jay Brown’s The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities.
By the end of the episode, lucid dreaming is no longer just a party trick of flying or bending physics. It becomes a doorway into shared dream spaces, collective uplift, and a different way of thinking about synchronicity, guidance, and the mind of the universe itself.
David Jay Brown is the author of The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities, Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing and Psychedelics, and The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality. He is also coauthor of seven bestselling interview collections with leading edge thinkers, including Mavericks of the Mind and Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness. Trained in psychobiology at New York University, he has conducted research with Rupert Sheldrake and published in Wired, Discover, and Scientific American.
Sara Phinn Huntley is an artist, writer, and researcher who has spent two decades exploring psychedelics, technology, and philosophy. A dedicated DMT psychonaut and hyperspace cartographer, she develops virtual reality tools for psychedelic exploration and uses chaos mathematics, Islamic geometry, and 3D performance capture to document DMT revealed states. Her work has been published by MAPS and featured in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics and in David Jay Brown’s The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities.
By the end of the episode, lucid dreaming is no longer just a party trick of flying or bending physics. It becomes a doorway into shared dream spaces, collective uplift, and a different way of thinking about synchronicity, guidance, and the mind of the universe itself.
What happens when two seasoned DMT explorers turn their attention to lucid dreaming and synchronicity? In this episode of Connecting with Coincidence, Bernie Beitman, MD, speaks with writer and psychonaut David Jay Brown and artist researcher Sara Phinn Huntley about what it really means to wake up inside your dreams and how those experiences may connect to the larger field of meaningful coincidences.
Together they explore a clear, grounded answer to the question “What is lucid dreaming?” David describes lucid dreams as fully immersive, three dimensional worlds where you realize you are asleep while the dream is still unfolding. You can fly, experiment, talk with teachers, and even address the intelligence behind the dream itself. Sara adds a Tibetan dream yoga perspective, where lucid dreaming becomes a spiritual practice for self reflection, catharsis, and insight into the idea that life itself may be a kind of larger dream.
David Jay Brown is the author of The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities, Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing and Psychedelics, and The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality. He is also coauthor of seven bestselling interview collections with leading edge thinkers, including Mavericks of the Mind and Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness. Trained in psychobiology at New York University, he has conducted research with Rupert Sheldrake and published in Wired, Discover, and Scientific American.
Sara Phinn Huntley is an artist, writer, and researcher who has spent two decades exploring psychedelics, technology, and philosophy. A dedicated DMT psychonaut and hyperspace cartographer, she develops virtual reality tools for psychedelic exploration and uses chaos mathematics, Islamic geometry, and 3D performance capture to document DMT revealed states. Her work has been published by MAPS and featured in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics and in David Jay Brown’s The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities.
By the end of the episode, lucid dreaming is no longer just a party trick of flying or bending physics. It becomes a doorway into shared dream spaces, collective uplift, and a different way of thinking about synchronicity, guidance, and the mind of the universe itself.
David Jay Brown is the author of The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities, Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing and Psychedelics, and The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality. He is also coauthor of seven bestselling interview collections with leading edge thinkers, including Mavericks of the Mind and Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness. Trained in psychobiology at New York University, he has conducted research with Rupert Sheldrake and published in Wired, Discover, and Scientific American.
Sara Phinn Huntley is an artist, writer, and researcher who has spent two decades exploring psychedelics, technology, and philosophy. A dedicated DMT psychonaut and hyperspace cartographer, she develops virtual reality tools for psychedelic exploration and uses chaos mathematics, Islamic geometry, and 3D performance capture to document DMT revealed states. Her work has been published by MAPS and featured in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics and in David Jay Brown’s The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities.
By the end of the episode, lucid dreaming is no longer just a party trick of flying or bending physics. It becomes a doorway into shared dream spaces, collective uplift, and a different way of thinking about synchronicity, guidance, and the mind of the universe itself.
