Who am I?
I’m just like you. Somebody making the most
of what I’ve got. Of the time I have. Of the tools I
use and the opportunities I notice.
Of the dreams I pursue
(and those which pursue me).
My name is Derek Lee.
I am the creator of Luciminal and
introduced the first
Galantamine supplement designed
with lucid dream induction in mind -
Luciminal also provides several daytime
nootropic supplements and my book
about the dreaming mind and the
narrative nature of consciousness,
I’m not really from anywhere,
but I’ve lived in a lot of places.
Beach towns, sprawling concrete jungles,
the desert, and now, in a forest.
One of my primary interests
is in tracking how our ancient instincts
and internal symbolic archetypes
will respond within
a rapidly mutating environment.
After many years of looking through the lens of
night dreams, timeless lessons relevant
to today became
apparent to me. The repeating motifs
and themes composing most dreams
were forged during our pre-history
and are just as essential to navigating
our needs of today and tomorrow
as they were when we acquired them.
The two principle
thematic arches in dreams are:
I like to lean into a paradox. I like to stand on
the fringes of scientific quandaries;
I wonder about things we know to be real,
but of which not much is known about them.
I am fascinated with the existence of
and the means to induce
special states of consciousness.
Dreaming, lucid dreaming, the Flow state.
Fear combined with the tenacity to
work through the fear.
Creative bursts. Epiphanies.
I am an extreme skeptic,
concerning almost everything.
But I have my hunches and educated guesses.
I think we live in a sort of simulation/game,
and also, I think that
what we do in this thing matters.
There are clues on how to get ahead
embedded all over, hidden in plain site.
I think that lessons reaped through
aging cannot be handed over (easily) to
the uninitiated. Curiosity plus good sense
can raise patterns from the noisy
background of life. Rather than always
fighting the currents,
we can learn to time our actions
to coincide with the natural cycles.
However, it’s very difficult to take these
rhythms seriously before spending a few
rounds with them.