Dreaming Reality

Ably explores recent developments in neuroscience and psychology. – Dan Turello * Los Angeles Review of Books *Brings together what is known about dreams, memories, emotions, and sleep and how they are related to brain structure and function…[a] thoughtful conversation on consciousness. – Catherine Lantz * Library Journal *A fascinating journey through empirical science and contemplative wisdom, Dreaming Reality illuminates how our sense of self—our sensations, perceptions, and even actions—can be extended beyond the limited modern view of the individual to an expanded state of belonging and a broader experience of who we are. – Daniel J. Siegel, MD, author of IntraConnected and Executive Director of the Mindsight InstituteThis is a remarkable book. Written by two authors with impeccable command of scientific modalities and an intimate familiarity with meditation traditions from around the world, Dreaming Reality invites readers to an exciting and exemplary new dialogue between neuroscience and religion. – Martin Laird, author of An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and LiberationA necessary and welcome departure from the classic intellectual, nihilistic, materialistic, and reductionist view of the mind and the brain. This book takes a fresh look at what is possible when scientific approaches and contemplative traditions are taken together to better understand human consciousness. – Marc Wittmann, author of Altered States of ConsciousnessNothing is more commonplace than our daily experience of thoughts, emotions, objects, and dreams, but no scientific theory can yet explain even one specific conscious experience. Dreaming Reality explores our elusive consciousness from the vantages of neuroscience, evolution, spirituality, psychedelics, and dreams, providing a genial and captivating guide to the fundamental mystery at the core of our being. – Donald D. Hoffman, author of The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

Vladimir Miskovic was formerly Assistant Professor of Psychology and Integrative Neuroscience at Binghamton University (SUNY) and research scientist at X: The Moonshot Factory, previously known as Google X. Since 2023, he has been exploring monastic life in the contemplative community at New Skete Monastery in Cambridge, New York.

Steven Jay Lynn was Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Binghamton University (SUNY), where he directed the Laboratory of Consciousness, Cognition, and Psychopathology. He was Founding Editor of the journal Psychology of Consciousness. His nearly two-dozen books have been translated into more than twenty languages.