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.
DreamWell
Mobile app and dictionary integrating dreamwork, meditation, and data science.
DA2i Dashboards
Interactive data dashboards visualizing global indicators of digital inclusion and social well-being for the UN’s DA2i initiative.
Community Attributes Inc
Lead developer and data-systems architect for civic analytics.
““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.
Dream
Denise Stoner’s Sudden Relocation and Missing-Time Shock
In Marden’s Extraterrestrial Contact, Denise Stoner describes hiking on a hill and suddenly finding herself on a lower road with no memory of walking there. The relocation is instantaneous and dreamlike, leaving her disoriented. She senses something intervened, but the memory boundary feels sealed. The missing-time effect creates an emotional shock that rese…
Marden, K. (2019). Extraterrestrial Contact: What to Do When You’ve Been Abducted.
Claim
Literalist abduction frameworks conflict with memory science and dream phenomenology
Multiple authors (Hopkins, Jacobs, Mack, Vallee, Rekshan, memory-researchers).
Reference
Emulating Alien and UFO Encounters in REM Sleep
Raduga, M. et al. (2021). Emulating Alien and UFO Encounters in REM Sleep.
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.