Dream Studies

In this episode, Ryan sits down with London-based lucid dreaming artist Dave Green to explore what he calls "inter-dimensional performance art," an extraordinary practice of creating artwork directly inside his lucid dreams, which he then recreates upon waking. Along the way, they discuss the implications of precognitive dreams for the nature of time, fate and reality, and also solve the mystery of the true ending of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan.

In this episode: 
  • How Dave's professional artistic training and interest in lucid dreaming came together to create a new form of inter-dimensional performance art. 
  • What happened when Dave channeled anger while interacting in a lucid dream, leading to deeper questions about emotional expression 
  • Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge makes an appearance in Dave's dream, and decisively finishes his famous poem. 
  • Can lucid dream drawings predict images sent the following day? Dave teams up with neuroscientist and a skeptic with interesting, and statistically significant, results. 
  • Competing theories on the nuts and bolts of precognition in dreams. Is it fate or can we influence the future? 
Guest: Dave Green | Instagram: @davegreen5000 | Website: dave-green.co.uk

Book: Doodles in the Dark: An Artist's Guide to Lucid Dreaming (UK exclusive)
Documentary Short: The Dreaming Pen (World Science Festival)
Featured in: BBC Science Focus, Dreamtime Magazine, Tate Modern
Research: Future dreams of electric sleep: Case study of a possible precognitive lucid dreamer with AI scoring (2025). International Journal of Dream Research 18(2)

About the host: Ryan D. Hurd is a dream researcher, author, and holistic educator. The Dream Studies Podcast explores dreams, consciousness, and the imagination, bridging 21st century science with intuitive ways of knowing. More to explore at DreamStudies.org

Original music and art by Eldest Child (c) 2026

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What is Dream Studies?

What if consciousness studies were to make it out of the academic journals and into your life? That’s the guiding ethos of the Dream Studies Podcast – to support ways of knowing that integrate the best of 21st century thought with the intuitive skills prized by our ancestors: dreams, visions and the imagination.