Jennifer Dumpert

Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, and consciousness hacker. She is an author, speaker, and avid dreamer. In 2009, Jennifer founded the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. On the same night, remote participants from around the world use the same oneirogen--any herb, root, technology, practice, scent, sound, or whatever promotes vivid dreams--creating a worldwide slumber party, a night when people around the globe unite as a community of dreamers. Much of Jennifer's work focuses on liminal dreams, the unique experience of mind that lies between awake and asleep. As you sink into slumber, you pass through hypnagogia. As you wake, you experience hypnopompia. We think of awake and asleep as binary, but in fact there's a spectrum of experience between the two, a swirling, kaleidoscopic, free-associative zone of dreams that are unlike REM dreams, and that can be used for a wide variety of purposes, either for work or for play. Jennifer posts a dream a day on twitter as @oneirofer, and has done so since January of 2009. You can learn more about her work at http://www.liminaldreaming.com.