We Are Dreamers Of Our Lives Both in Waking And in Sleep: Thomas Peisel at TEDxLowerEastSide

Thomas Peisel's book Oneironautics: A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming teaches its readers not only how to remember their dreams, but how to become lucid (think the motion picture, Inception) within them. Inspired by the idea that lucid dreaming isn't about sleeping but about waking up, Thomas shows us that when we begin to consciously create out own dreams, we naturally understand how we can consciously create our waking lives as well.

Thomas is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. His website, dreamlabs.io, aims to explore the potential of dreaming through interactive social experiments and educational videos.

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