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.
Asclepios
AI dialog-analysis system for hypnosis and dream transcripts.
DreamWell
Mobile app and dictionary integrating dreamwork, meditation, and data science.
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
Sudden Realization Upon Awakening
Ring describes witnesses who awaken with the intense feeling that something significant occurred during the night. They retain only dreamlike fragments: lights, voices, or presences. The emotional certainty exceeds the content. This awakening resembles returning from a powerful dream where the meaning is clear but imagery dissolves. The experiencer reports e…
Ring, K. (1992). The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large.
Claim
Precognition is a normal feature of consciousness shaped by future experiences
Wargo, E. (2018). Time Loops.
Reference
Hypnagogia
Mavromatis, A. (1987). Hypnagogia: The Unique State of Consciousness Between Wakefulness and 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.