Five Books That Shaped My Dream Odyssey—and Why Over Dinner Is Like Nothing Else

Dreams aren’t what you think. For 30 years, I’ve chased them—scribbling journals, painting oils, sculpting bronzes—until Over Dinner & Other Strange Enchantments emerged. This isn’t Freud’s subconscious or Jung’s symbols; it’s a mind-blowing journey through art, quantum fields, and the mind as a quantum canvas. Five books lit the way, each a spark for this wild ride. Here’s how they fueled me—and why my book challenges dream norms like nothing you’ve read before.

• ** The Sapient Cosmos by James B. Glattfelder**
  “Obsessed with reality? Pair The Sapient Cosmos & my Over Dinner—dreams as multiverse portals. Cosmic punch!”
  I’m obsessed—I admit it. Glattfelder’s fusion of physics, psychedelics, and consciousness hit me like a supernova. His idea that reality might bend beyond equations mirrored my own hunch: dreams aren’t just echoes, they’re portals to a multiverse. Over Dinner takes that cosmic punch and runs with it—30 years of lucid visions proving the universe isn’t what it seems.
• ** The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho**
  “The Alchemist left its mark—its dreamy quest shaped my Over Dinner multiverse worlds!”
  Coelho’s tale of destiny and alchemy seeped into my bones. Its dreamy, questing spirit shaped the strange enchantments I’ve painted and penned—like hovering over a childhood dinner table in an out-of-body drift. Over Dinner isn’t a tidy fable; it’s a raw, multiverse-spanning quest that dares you to chase your own cosmic signals.
• ** The Phase by Michael Raduga**
  “Raduga’s The Phase stunned me—‘YES!’ It locked in my Over Dinner multiverse view & notes.”
  Mid-research, I stumbled on The Phase and shouted “YES!” Raduga’s lucid-dreaming and OBE techniques clicked—those hovering moments, those crystal portals I’d logged for decades weren’t madness, they were transmissions. Over Dinner builds on that, shattering dream norms with a quantum twist no traditional dream book dares touch.
• ** Ultimate Journey by Robert Monroe**
  “Ultimate Journey by Monroe lit my path—beats launched my Over Dinner journey!”
  Monroe’s binaural beats were my launchpad. His out-of-body maps lit a fire under my own hovering dreams—from Jersey sod fields to Venetian cathedrals. Over Dinner isn’t just a memoir; it’s a painter’s proof that consciousness roams beyond the skull, etched on a quantum canvas no one else has dared to frame.
• ** Angels, An Endangered Species by Malcolm Godwin**
  “Ispanky’s library: Angels, An Endangered Species—magic for my Over Dinner fans!”
  From my mentor Laszlo Ispanky’s private stash, this book whispered magic. Angels as fading mysteries mirrored my own visions—bronzes blurring with a mentor’s ghost, dreams pulsing with the beyond. Over Dinner channels that enchantment, but it’s no gentle reverie—it’s a bold, art-fueled manifesto for a multiverse mind.

Why Over Dinner Stands Alone

These books shaped me, but Over Dinner & Other Strange Enchantments breaks the mold. It’s not a dream dictionary or a shrink’s notebook—it challenges norms, fusing art, quantum fields, and the mind as a quantum canvas. From a robot with a bent-light brain to twin-dreams echoing across years, it’s a journey no dream book has dared take. With stunning Plates of my paintings, it’s raw experience meets bold theory—a call to log your own strange enchantments and marvel at consciousness’s reach.

Want a taste? Check my Amazon AuthorPage for these influences. The e-book’s out early on April 11, 2025—grab it now. Softcover and hardcover launch April 18—pre-order today. While you’re waiting, snag some Over Dinner-inspired coffee cups from Fine Art America and a pair of STEV-3 pajamas from RobertGirandolaStudio — curl up with this book on a beautiful morning like today! This isn’t just a book; it’s a bridge your mind might never cross back from. 

I'm Obsessed

    After years of contemplating the dream world, I’ve come to a startling conclusion: we’ve been looking at it all wrong. This stems largely from the pervasive, long-held belief in the Western world that dreams originate in the subconscious mind. I blame Freud for this—and Jung, too, to some extent. Though, to his credit, Jung at least touches on the superconscious mind.

    What if I told you the dream world converges with theoretical physics? In his book The Sapient Cosmos, James Glattfelder explores the mathematization of consciousness, probing the connections between physics, psychedelic experiences, and shamanism. His fascinating, in-depth interview—TheSapient Cosmos: Where Physics, Psychedelics, and Shamanism Meet | James Glattfelder, PhD—echoes the observations I’ve arrived at in my own work, Over Dinner & Other Strange Enchantments. My book reveals what some physicists are only now beginning to discuss openly: the world—and our dreams—are not what we think.

Over Dinner & Other Strange Enchantments is available now on Kindle, with hard copies out April 18, 2025!

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My 30 Year Secret Life

      Picture a secret so wild, my own family missed it—a shock, since I wasn’t hiding it on purpose. I just whispered it too soft. Recently, I was “let go” from my thirty-year career, a jolt both thrilling and terrifying. The universe jolted me awake to my lifelong dream.

     My secret? I’m a dreamer—literally. If dreaming were a sport, I’d be the Aaron Judge of it! For thirty years, I’ve scribbled dreams—wild nights, lucid flights, body-free jaunts—in tattered journals, now distilled into a book. Think robot brains and cliff-soaring crystals—losing my career kicked me into overdrive to finish this treatise, set for Amazon in under two weeks.

     What’s unfolded is a magical awakening. I dusted off my YouTube ghosts, blogspot relics, retracing a double life: 9-to-5 in business, 5-to-9 in an artist’s dream world. The revelation? Dreams aren’t just subconscious echoes—they’re more, a truth glaring back.

     Their jaws dropped when I finally shared this openly—“Rob, this is you?” or “That scares me”—and it hit me hard. My core—silent all along—barely flickered in passing. Like painting, I thought my art roared volumes, but its tongue was foreign to them.

     April 18, my book drops—a dream itself. I crave dreamers who’ll catch this spark, unveiling a revelation wilder than Freud’s or Jung’s take on dreams. This silent secret is soon to be in the world. I discovered how dreams unlock the human mind and explain its dance with the world.

While waiting, contemplate these works from my dreams:

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