Dream Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Exploring consciousness, contact, and creativity through dreams, science, and AI.
About Daniel Rekshan & DSETI Dreamwork
I’m Daniel Rekshan — a dreamworker, researcher, and software developer exploring how dreams, ET/NHI contact, and artificial intelligence reveal the creative structure of consciousness. DSETI extends the spirit of SETI into the mind itself, searching not through radio telescopes but through human dreaming.
Inspired by SETI@home’s citizen-science model, DSETI asks: what if the signals we seek already flow through our shared dreamlife? With Dreamion AI — my custom GPT trained on research, dreams, and writings — we can now explore this hypothesis at scale.
My background weaves together classical liberal arts, software engineering, and integrative dreamwork. Over the past decade, I’ve led data visualization teams at Community Attributes, helped build Goodreads’ social engagement systems, created the DreamWell app, and developed dream-analysis tech like Asclepios, NORD, and Dreamion. This foundation lets DSETI be both technically rigorous and deeply human.
“In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.”
— Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain
Technology & Consciousness Portfolio
The Tech Portfolio demonstrates how AI, NLP, and data visualization merge with dream research to build the foundations of DSETI.
NORD (Non-Ordinary Reality Database)
Data platform collecting and classifying dreams and anomalous experiences.
Goodreads
Full-stack engineering work on large-scale social reading platform.
Archimedes Digital
Front-end engineering for digital-humanities platform connecting art and metadata.
““The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.” ”
— Phiip K. dick
Dreamion AI Dream Contact Archive
A curated research collection of dreams, regressions, claims, and references exploring human–nonhuman interaction through the lens of consciousness.
Reference
Polyphasic Cultures and Consciousness
Polyphasic Cultures and Consciousness by Charles Laughlin and Adam Rock contrasts monophasic cultures, which marginalize dreams and altered states, with polyphasic cultures that embrace them. The book surveys anthropological evidence for culturally supported visionary cognition. DSETI tracks this reference because Rekshan cites Laughlin and Rock when compari…
Laughlin, C., & Rock, A. (2014). Polyphasic Cultures and Consciousness.
Dream
Telepathic Download of Symbolic Information
Cannon, D. (1998). The Custodians.
Claim
Experiencers tend to be psychologically intact, high-absorption individuals rather than psychotic
Multiple authors (Marden, Ring, Mack, Rekshan).
This archive is informed by researchers such as John Mack, Daniel Rekshan, Karla Turner, Eric Wargo, whose work shaped contemporary understanding of dreams, ET contact, and extraordinary experience.
“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.”
— Edgar Cayce
Books — The DSETI Quadrilogy
Daniel’s four-book series blends lucid dream experience, contact research, and ethical science.
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff.”
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Dreamwork Journey
The Dreamwork Journey is a guided process for exploring dreams, symbolic integration, and non-ordinary contact experiences.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
Join the DSETI Community
Become part of a living research network uniting dreamers, scientists, and AI systems in the study of consciousness.