Our friend, dream researcher Ryan Hurd, sends word that he has a new book out – and what’s more, he’s partnered up with a Kickstarter campaign that’s getting plenty of buzz (see above) to offer the book as one of the rewards at the $20 pledge level:
My new ebook is finally ready for pre-order. I’m talking about Dream Like a Boss (Book 1): Sleep better, dream more and wake up to what matters most.
So I have partnered with a new dream app company –SHADOW– to manage an exclusive launch. You can’t get the ebook on Amazon yet, only through the SHADOW fundraising campaign that began today.
SHADOW shares many of the values and goals I do, namely to help bring back dreaming as a valid way of knowing in this overly rationalized (but not exactly reasonable) world.
SHADOW is a smartphone app to help you remember, record, share and analyze your dreams. It’s super slick and has a top notch team of dream researchers behind it (including me) as well as A-list designers and business advisors.
Together, we’re gonna build the biggest open-source dream database in the world: and part of my job is to make sure we do it ethically, transparently, and with the blessings of the dream research community.
I encourage you to check out SHADOW’s fundraising page on KickStarter. If you donate at the $20 level and choose one of the options with my name, you’ll get access to Dream Like a Boss before anyone else, and you’ll get early access to SHADOW as well.
As mentioned above, the Shadow app is getting plenty of coverage, including from Wired and Boing Boing (and now, *cough*, The Daily Grail). Funnily enough, I thought to myself a few years back that some sort of dream database would be an amazing thing well-suited to this age of mobile devices – so I will be interested to see how Shadow goes about implementing it (maybe I should actually act on my ideas sometimes!). It’s very exciting to me – pulling this mass of data from our inner worlds and collecting it in a searchable database. The possibilities in terms of analysis are amazing, from a general feel for negative or positive mindsets, through to geographical differences in dreaming, and even perhaps to identify precognitive dreams.
I’ll be putting myself down for $20, so that I get both the app and Ryan’s new book!
