Tibetan Dream Yoga and Introduction to the Neurobiology of Dreaming with Luke Sinnick

Wake Up! Start Dreaming......

An introduction to the neuroscience of sleeping and dreaming followed by a workshop on Tibetan Dream Yoga.

What is happening when we are dreaming? Can we improve our ability to explore our dreams? What can we learn from western and eastern approaches to dreaming? Is dreaming good for you?

Dreaming offers all of us the unique opportunity every night to experience and explore an intense psychedelic experience. We may not always remember our dreams, but each night we are given the possibility to delve into this incredible experience. 

Many different cultures and theorists have offered explanations for dreaming. However, two that make for a particularly interesting contrast are those offered by recent modern neuroscience research as well as those offered within Tibetan Buddhism. Modern neuroscience has made great progress with understanding which areas of the brain are associated with dreaming and what this tells us about consciousness. 

The first part of the session will involve a talk and some discussion around what we know about sleeping, dreaming and why we enter these unique conscious experiences every night. 

The second part of the session we will contrast this with the theories of dreaming within Tibetan Buddhism. Dream exploration has a unique place in this tradition and daytime and night-time dream practice is called 'Tibetan Dream Yoga'. 

The workshop will include opportunities to reflect and share your own experiences of dreaming as well as learn some traditional practices which help to remember your dreams more vividly at first, and then develop techniques to learn to 'wake up' within your dreams to experience them with full awareness. We will go through some simple but effective daytime meditations and visualisations that have been used for many generations to more fully explore the world of your dreams.

FACILITATOR

Luke Sinnick

Like many people, Luke has been interested in exploring his dreams since he was a child. He studied a BSc in Neuroscience at Bristol University between 2005-2008, in part due to his interest in dreaming & consciousness. He became interested in Tibetan Dream Yoga after attending an inspirational workshop by Charlie Morley around 2010 and has practiced Dream Yoga on and off since that time. Professionally he has been teaching A Level Biology at Further Education Colleges since 2011, and now also teaches Environmental Science. He is also makes psychedelic dub music with his collaborator Josh Ballard in the duo Illusive Tuna and have played their music at psychedelic music club nights and music festivals such as Tribe of Frog in Bristol, UK.

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