Episode 163 – Dreams

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This time we’re looking at dreamscapes and discussing sleep-based magic and folklore. We talk about lucid dreaming, dream interpretation, mara/nightmares, and ways to boost dreaming. We also discuss Air in our Cunningham Book Club (as well as the smugness of birds).

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Much of our discussion comes from personal experiences, but we do discuss dreams a bit in one of our posts on Signs and Omens.

We also mention the phenomenon of lottery “Dream Books” in African American communities, and you can read more about those in Jeffrey Anderson’s Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure: A Handbook and Yvonne Chireau’s Black Magic: Religion & the African American Conjuring Tradition. You can also download a copy of one of the better known dream books, Aunt Sally’s Policy Players Dream Book for free.

We discuss nightmares and the phenomenon of the mara/hag riding, which is the subject of a great book by David Hufford called The Terror that Comes in the Night. The lucid dreaming tips Cory mentions come from a great digital graphic project on Chaos Magick called The Psychonaut Field Manual (HIGHLY Recommended!).

Oh! And shout-out to the excellent Cursed! Podcast, who partly inspired this topic.

If you’re interested in participating in the book club, check out the post introducing it.

Image by Cory Thomas Hutcheson (2019 – CC 2.0 License).

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