The Liminal Dreaming & Yoga Nidra Connection with Jennifer Dumpert
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As with yoga nidra, liminal dreaming requires us to surrender. To let go and drop into a space of deep relaxation. To have a conversation with the unconscious. So, what, exactly is liminal dreaming and when does it occur? And how can we develop a dream practice around it that supports creativity and problem-solving—and improves our overall wellbeing?
Jennifer Dumpert is a writer, speaker and consciousness hacker who teaches the practice of liminal dreaming. She is also the founder of Oneironauticum, a global organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of self-actualization and consciousness expansion. Jennifer’s new book, Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep, offers readers a step-by-step process for creating their own meaningful dream practice.
Today, Jennifer joins the Daring to Rest Podcast talk about liminal dreaming and discuss its characteristic irregular brainwaves. She explores the yoga nidra + liminal dream connection, speaking to the restorative quality of the practice and the best way to facilitate liminal dreaming via slow and deep nidras. Jennifer also explains why scents and smells make excellent oneirogens and shares some of the most common olfactory and auricular allies for liminal dreaming. Listen in for insight on processing liminal dreams to develop your own practice and learn how Thomas Edison and Salvador Dalí practiced liminal dreaming for creativity and problem-solving!
Key Takeaways
The definition of liminal dreaming and its irregular brainwaves
The differences among REM sleep, lucid and liminal dreaming
How liminal dreaming serves as a pathway to lucid dreaming
Where in the yoga nidra map people go into liminal dreaming
The restorative quality of an experience in liminal dreaming
How to process liminal dreams as part of a core practice
The value in focusing on the experience of a dream in your body
Jennifer’s powerful experience with collective dreaming
Why scents and smells make excellent oneirogens for dreaming
The benefit to crafting your own liminal dream practice
How slow and deep nidras facilitate liminal dreaming
The reasons behind the growing awareness of hypnagogia
How liminal dreaming presents in older people + small children
The liminal dream process used by Edison + Dali for creativity
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Resources
Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep by Jennifer Dumpert
Yoga Nidra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Dr. Christopher Kerr at TEDxBuffalo
Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation by Karen Brody
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