HBM148: Early Attempts at Summoning Dream Beings

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters Podcast

Science, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Personal Journals, Documentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

As a teenager, HBM host Jeff Emtman fell asleep most nights listening to Coast To Coast AM, a long running talk show about the world’s weirdnesses. One of the guests stuck out though; one who spoke on his experiences with lucid dreaming. He’d learned how to conjure supernatural entities and converse with his subconscious.

Lucid dreams are dreams where the dreamer knows they’re asleep. Some sleepers become lucid completely at random, but lucid dream training can drastically increase the frequency of their occurrence.

Months ago, Jeff put out a call for dream prompts on social media. He asked if anyone had questions for an all-knowing being to be conjured in a forthcoming lucid dream. Some of the questions are heard in this episode.

While training for this episode, Jeff used two approaches to trigger lucid dreams. The first was an audio recorder by the bedside. Each morning, Jeff recorded his dreams (lucid or not). The second method was a series of “wakefulness checks” throughout each day, stopping at random times to test reality, and to make a determination on whether he’s currently awake or asleep. This tactic is useful as it may eventually trigger the same behaviour in a dream.

In this episode, Jeff attempts to lucid dream to answer listener questions, but finds the progress slower than he hoped.

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Producer: Jeff Emtman
Music: The Black Spot, Phantom Fauna, and Serocell.
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0:00.0	From the corners of my mind, this is Hereby Monsters.
0:18.7	2021, it's May 26th.
0:24.8	I'm out on a walk around the neighborhood just because I'm
0:28.5	I've been cooped up all day. It's beautiful out and sometimes I think
0:36.7	better when I'm on my feet. You know a couple months ago I put out a
0:42.6	request for voicemails on social media. I asked people this question I said,
0:49.3	is there anything that you would want me to ask a hyper-dimensional all-knowing
0:54.8	dream being? And I do hope that the kind people who responded and called in knew that I was
1:05.3	being a bit hyperbolic. I would hope so. You know I'm not sure if I actually believe in
1:10.4	hyper-dimensional dream beings. But the idea was that I was kind of wondering if I could kind of
1:16.0	you know ask questions that other people want to know to my subconscious. You know what I mean?
1:22.1	And back when I was a teenager I got you know up to my neck in this AM radio show called
1:29.8	Coast to Coast. And it's a show that's largely about like the supernatural, largely about ghosts
1:36.6	and aliens and stuff like that. You know I was into that too but every now and then they would have
1:43.1	just a very different kind of left field show where the guests would come on and talk about
1:49.9	something that's just truly interesting. And I remember this episode must have been from like
1:55.5	yeah like 2006 or 2007. This episode where this guy came on and talked about lucid dreaming.
2:02.7	And I had never heard of lucid dreaming before. That was an entirely new concept to me. And you know
2:07.4	there's this misconception I think about dreaming sometimes that a lucid dream is a dream that
2:11.7	you're in control of. But that's not actually the case. You're actually in control of a lot of the
2:15.7	dreams you have. A lucid dream is actually a dream where you become self-aware, right? Like
2:21.6	you can have lucid dreams where you're in control of the dream and you can have non lucid dreams
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