I'm a writer and lucid dreamer consultant. I opted out of a typical high school life and spent the better part of my senior year in China. Upon my return to the States, I attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. There, I wrote several features and dozens of shorts. During my junior year, I won the David Chase Honorary Scholarship Award for Screenwriting.

I've interned at Sony Pictures, worked for Discovery Channel, completed assignments for Disney and Unilever, and have served as a creative director for multiple productions companies.

In 2013, my book ‘A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming‘ was released by Workman Publishing. Upon its release, the book was an indie bestseller and is currently available in 11 languages. I've been featured on NPR, Vice.com, GaiaTV, Oprah.com, and numerous other media outlets. I've contributed work to Men's Health and Tricycle Magazine.

I currently work as a freelance writer and script supervisor and am a lucid dreaming teacher and consultant.

I have an insatiable appetite for the unknown, love applying metaphors to an ever-confusing world, and finds great solace in baking pies.

At the moment of this reading, I reside in Los Angeles.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My CouchSurfing experiences have always been when I've had to kill time (flight's delayed, room's not ready for another day, et cetera). I've always met decent folks during my CouchSurfing adventures.

As long as there is a nice place to lay my head and store my stuff, I'm content.

Interests

Writing, Lucid Dreaming, Movies, Skiing, Traveling, BBQ, Pictures, Thinking, Metaphors

• birds
• writing
• books
• beer
• coffee
• bbq
• drinking
• drones
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• skiing

Music, Movies, and Books

Dirty Harry, Superbad, Little Miss Sunshine, Amélie, The Dark Knight, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Eyes Wide Shut, 2046, Children of Men, The Royal Tenenbaum, Fallen Angels, Chungking Express, Sin City, Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Pi, Indiana Jones (RotLA, ToD, LC), The Matrix (All 3), Fight Club, All Bruce Lee flicks, Apocalypse Now, Se7en, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, 28 Days Later, Full Metal Jacket, Once Upon A Time in Mexico, Desperado, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shawhank Redemption, Casablanca, Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harold and Kumar: Go to White Castle, Old School, Resevoir Dogs, Kill Bill Vol.1, Happy Gilmore, Blazing Sadles, Old School, Shichinin no Samurai (Seven Samurai), American Beauty, Taxi Driver, Leon, American History X, Y Tu Mama Tambien

Entourage, Californiacation, Lost, Nip/Tuck, Weeds, Rescue Me, Cool stuff on the History Channel and the Discovery Channel, TrueBlood The Narrator from The Wonder Years

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Wrote this essay and got into college:

Every day starts pretty much the same. Thousands upon thousands of Americans start the morning with a cup of Joe, java, coffee, a latte, a goddamn cappuccino. We are a nation of socially acceptable addicts. We are the begging birds and our mother is the international chain of caffeine drinks known as Starbucks. We get our tall, grande, and venti. What I’d really like to know is what happened to good ol’ fashioned small, medium, and large. My coffee isn’t pure Columbian; it’s some cheap crap that I picked up at the local market, brewed five minutes ago, and the one thing that I’m hoping for is that the milk hasn’t gone bad……good.

No one complains about a caffeine-head’s addiction to coffee. No one says they have to go to a CAA meeting. They don’t get condemned for staying up all night drinking a pot. They won’t get shot or arrested trying to get a pound. It is the most common addiction in the world.

To understand this coffee craze, we turn to the meaning of the word addict, a person who builds tolerance for a substance and experiences effects of withdrawal without the consumption of that substance. All this holds true for coffee. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 4th Revision, coffee/caffeine is an official addiction. What we don’t know is that a person has to drink ten cups of coffee each day to be classified as a “legitimate” addict. All across our country, people are jumping the gun, saying to their friends, family, and even themselves that they are caffeine addicts. This is the single addiction people accept. Coffee addicts recognize their need well before their physicians, shrinks, or rehab nurses do. People tend to ignore the abuse of almost any other substance or activity, such as, tobacco, cocaine, crack, heroin, oxycotin, opium, alcohol, acid, ecstasy, and even sex.

We are the nation of socially acceptable caffeine buzzed drones. Welcome to America. Good morning world

Yay!