Liminal Dreaming, Jennifer Dumpert
Liminal Dreaming, Jennifer Dumpert
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Liminal Dreaming
Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep

Author: Jennifer Dumpert

Narrator: Jennifer Dumpert

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2019

Synopsis

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.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gail 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......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on April 30, 2024

I felt called to read this book after feeling a calling to the place between sleep and awake. For a long time I've had little knowledge of hypnogogia and hypnopompia, and liminal dreaming, I thought it was simply a transition space. But I was wowed by every chapter of this book, shocked by the beaut......more

Goodreads review by Suhrob on December 31, 2019

Nice - I like when somebody discovers a somewhat obscure topic and digs into it. I got somewhat interested in hypnagogia and completely accidentally some time later I found this book. Even if this book could have fallen into a woo-woo territory, it doesn't. Dumpert is unpretentious, open minded, but n......more

Goodreads review by Christina on May 10, 2020

I was introduced to this book at a yoga nidra retreat in British Columbia last year. The NYPL just gave access to the book via Overdrive. Overall, interesting. A mix of personal experience, history, and science. I prefer science so I would have liked more of this, although it’s a new space. The endi......more

Goodreads review by Lynda on January 16, 2021

The book has a reasonable and good understanding of the practice of Yoga. However, the author writes about Plants and Other Subtle Allies. She writes for example about treatments by shamans to aid in trances, example, LSD and other hallucinations that can promote "vivid" dreams. She promotes an herb......more

Quotes

“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

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