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.
Archimedes Digital
Front-end engineering for digital-humanities platform connecting art and metadata.
DA2i Dashboards
Interactive data dashboards visualizing global indicators of digital inclusion and social well-being for the UN’s DA2i initiative.
DreamWell
Mobile app and dictionary integrating dreamwork, meditation, and data science.
““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
Barney’s Corridor Regression
Barney’s regression includes a scene in which he is guided down a curved corridor inside the craft. The walls feel too close, and the air seems absent of sound. He experiences disorientation, as though the environment is shifting with each step. The corridor imagery resembles classic dream symbolism: a tunnel leading deeper into unconscious material. Barney …
Fuller, J. G. (1966). The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer.
Claim
Physical body marks corroborate abduction events
Hopkins, B. (1981). Missing Time.
Reference
Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions
Budd Hopkins (1981). Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions.
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.