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.
Community Attributes Inc
Lead developer and data-systems architect for civic analytics.
DA2i Dashboards
Interactive data dashboards visualizing global indicators of digital inclusion and social well-being for the UN’s DA2i initiative.
Forgotten Languages Bibliography Viewer
NLP and scraping pipeline decoding esoteric multilingual research archive.
““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
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies by C. G. Jung is a 1959 work that examines the psychological and symbolic dimensions of mid-twentieth-century UFO sightings. It approaches UFO and anomalous encounters through detailed case material and reflective analysis. The book situates extraordinary experiences within wider cultural debates abou…
C. G. Jung (1959). Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.
Dream
Transformational Awe After Encounter
Mack, J. E. (1999). Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters.
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.