Lucid Journeys: Exploring the Phillip Aisling Multiverse

Have you ever had a recurring dream return slightly changed? Same house, same faces, but the front door is suddenly a window, and no one else in the dream seems to notice. That quiet disorientation, questioning your own memory of a place you know by heart, is a lot like what happens when an author revises a book they already published. In this episode of Lucid Journeys, we kick off Season 2 with a...

What does it actually mean to be awake right now? Not the bumper sticker version. Not the spiritual bypassing version. The real, functional, rubber-meets-the-road version — in February 2026, in the middle of the unraveling, with algorithms pulling the social fabric apart thread by thread. In the season 1 finale of Lucid Journeys and the final episode of our 10-part Becoming Lucid series, we answer...

In 2026, it doesn’t just feel like things are “bad” — it feels like the script itself is breaking. The server is lagging, the plot has a typo, and reality keeps glitching. In episode 44 of Lucid Journeys , we explore why that gut-level sense of wrongness might not be a bug… but a signal. This is episode 9 of 10 in Becoming Lucid: Navigating a Changing Reality . This week in “3 Quantum Reasons to P...

Part 8 of 10 of our series Becoming Lucid: Navigating a Changing Reality When reality starts glitching, are you losing your mind or finally seeing clearly? In this episode of Lucid Journeys, we step into The Great Unraveling: Which 5 Spells are Breaking When Old Stories Stop Working? The hosts break down the “five spells” that have quietly organized consensus reality for generations—trust in insti...

In this episode of Lucid Journeys, we step straight into the uneasy déjà vu of the 2020s and ask why our world feels so much like the 1920s and 30s all over again—political polarization, economic anxiety, scapegoating, and the rise of strongman narratives. Are we truly doomed to repeat the same historical mistakes, or are we in a recurring season of human experience with a chance to respond differ...

Part 6 of our 10 part series Becoming Lucid: Navigating a Changing Reality  We kick off with a candid correction to Episode 40's deep dive on assemblage points and multiverse mechanics. We love the ideas, but let's be clear: this is the speculative metaphysics of a fantasy sci-fi novel — The Dreams of Phillip Aisling — not a literal description of reality. Credit to Carlos Castaneda&apos...

🔥 Grab your first edition of The Dreams of Phillip Aisling and the Numinous Nagwaagan NOW—unlock the full source for these adventures before they're gone! $25 on Amazon, or $17 if you sign up for the newsletter at phillipaisling.com . What if your deepest doubts aren't faith's enemy... but the lucid glitch —your First Gate—waking you to a multiverse where Truth fears no questions;...

When the world feels glitchy, is it a sign that reality is breaking down—or that it’s inviting us to wake up? In this deep dive, we scale last episode’s personal lucidity tools up to the global level and ask: What if today’s social upheaval, polarization, AI weirdness, and climate instability are actually collective dream signs —a shared wake‑up call to pivot from division into compassionate co‑cr...

What if life is as dreamlike as it feels? Last episode asked: "If you couldn't prove reality, how would you live?" Now we answer: with lucidity and agency. Explore Phillip Aisling's ultra-real dreams, from carnival sunburns to nightmare flips, as a lens for spiritual practice. Turn glitches into cues, vibration into your signal, and recurring patterns into growth. Dreamwork isn...

Have you noticed how the question “Is reality even real?” is no longer confined to philosophy seminars? Lately it shows up everywhere, from tech culture to everyday conversation, and the language has shifted. Surreal. Glitchy. Dreamlike. In this episode, we explore why this question is exploding right now, without trying to prove a final answer. We trace the modern simulation argument, why AI and...

Why do repeating numbers show up at the strangest possible moments? You’re not looking for them. You’re not thinking about anything mystical. You’re rushing through life… and suddenly it’s 11:11. Or 4:44. Or 7:77 on a receipt. It jolts you — not because the number is magical, but because you noticed . In today’s episode, we explore repeating numbers from every angle:  • the modern “angel number” i...

SPOILER ALERT! Some spoilers from book #1 and #2 are in this episode. Recommended to read first if you'd like a spoiler free read through. This episode takes you behind the scenes of the new Kickstarter video for The Dreams of Phillip Aisling . If you have ever created something and put it out into the world only to have strangers call it lazy, this conversation is for you. We explore what it...

 In today’s episode, we explore one of the most common questions parents, teachers, and librarians ask about the Phillip Aisling series: Is the vocabulary too advanced for young readers, or does it actually help them grow? You’ll hear the honest story behind the author’s own self-doubt while writing the series, how advanced vocabulary shows up naturally in fantasy favorites like Percy Jackson , Ke...

What happens when your dream stops being a quiet idea and suddenly becomes real? In this episode, we talk about the strange moment when a creative project crosses the halfway mark and the whole energy shifts. The Dreams of Phillip Aisling Book 2 Kickstarter just jumped from 35 percent to 51 percent funded with 16 days to go, and that shift brought up new feelings, new questions, and a new kind of...

At long last! The Dreams of Phillip Aisling: Book 2 – The Lucid Multiverse Kickstarter has arrived! This week, we’re announcing the official Kickstarter launch of the long-awaited sequel—now live at: 👉 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bbosse/the-dreams-of-phillip-aisling-book-2-the-lucid-multiverse?ref=c6y1a3 In this episode, the Lucid Journeys hosts explore what makes the Aislingverse so uni...

Before we launch into the next chapter, we’re taking a short pause to say thank you.  This special interlude recaps what Lucid Journeys is all about, how Phillip Aisling’s story began, and what’s coming next with Book 2: Dreams of Phillip Aisling and the Lucid Multiverse. We’ll talk about the second edition of Book 1 – Dreams of Phillip Aisling and the Numinous Nagwaagan, now being finalized, and...

Series Finale: Waking Up in a Dream—What the World Is Starting to Remember What if your brain isn’t producing consciousness…but translating it? In our series finale, we unpack the “consciousness-first” model using Phillip Aisling’s Book 1 canon (Ch. 13’s cube model; Ch. 30’s “It feels real because it is real”) and show how attention, intention, and choice act like a tuning dial—collapsing potentia...

This episode is part of the 10 episode series Waking Up in a Dream: What the World Is Starting to Remember Two worlds are unfolding side by side. One is collapsing into fear, control, division, and fragmentation. The other is quietly rising on resonance, coherence, and wholeness. Right now, we are living in the in-between. In this episode, we dive into: Why reality feels distorted, surreal, and “c...

Ever had a dream that felt more real than waking life—colors brighter, sensations sharper, emotions that won’t fade? In this episode of Lucid Journeys , we explore why certain dreams hit with undeniable realism, and how Book 1 of Phillip Aisling reframes them as glimpses into adjacent layers of reality. We follow Phillip’s early “too-real-to-ignore” dream and the Metaphysician’s insight: “It feels...

Déjà vu. That strange jolt of recognition that makes you stop and wonder, “Haven’t I lived this before?” In The Matrix , déjà vu meant a glitch in the system. For lucid dreamers, it can be a trigger — a moment to pause, do a reality check, and maybe even wake up inside the dream. In this episode, we connect déjà vu to Phillip Aisling’s first lucid awakening in Book 1, when he sees fish swimming in...

⚠️ Spoiler alert: This episode discusses key moments from Book 1 of Phillip Aisling’s Waking Up in a Dream series. Most of us dread nightmares. They leave us sweating, heart pounding, sometimes shaken all day. But what if nightmares aren’t punishments at all? What if they’re teachers — intense guides designed to shock us awake? In this episode, we explore Phillip Aisling's early nightmares in...

What if your dreams were already giving you coordinates — and all you lacked was the key to read them? In Book 1 of Phillip Aisling , Phillip stumbles upon the mysterious Dreamer’s Dictionary: midnight blue, silver moon embossed, its pages spinning like atlas rings filled with symbols. To most, it looks like nonsense. To a true Dreamer, it reveals hidden maps across dimensions. The riddle inside s...

TikTok’s #RealityShifting trend is everywhere — scripting, the Raven Method, “desired realities,” even Hogwarts. Millions are trying to shift. But what’s really happening? In this episode of Lucid Journeys , we dive into why this trend resonates so strongly, the very real human longing behind it, and how Phillip Ashling’s story from Waking Up in a Dream offers a missing piece. We’re not here to cr...

Ever notice reality just… winks at you? Numbers repeating, déjà vu, strange coincidences that feel too meaningful to ignore? In this episode, we explore mass synchronicities, Mandela effects, and those uncanny “glitches in the matrix” that might be dream clues pointing to something deeper. ⚠️ Heads up: the real glitch this week is in our audio—there are a few volume jumps (yep, even our podcast jo...

Ever had someone from your past suddenly walk into your dream — a childhood friend, an old flame, or a face you haven’t thought about in years? In this episode of Lucid Journeys , we explore why these dream encounters might be far more than random memories. Continuing our 10-part series Waking Up in a Dream – What the World Is Starting to Remember , we uncover how dreams can act as portals to alte...