Drew May
President & Founder
I've been exploring the hidden dimensions of the human psyche since the age of twelve, when I first became fascinated by the inner truths of what people think and feel beneath the surface. That early curiosity led me to study psychology, and combined with my own prolific dream life, when I encountered Tamara and her dream work, it set me on the path to founding The Oneiroi Project.
With over a decade of deep study and practice in astrology, including developing my own astrology software I'm drawn to the intersection of technical skill and esoteric knowledge. My approach to dreams is informed by the work of James Hillman and the tradition of Jungian depth psychology, honoring the dream world as its own sovereign territory, not merely a reflection of waking life, but a place of genuine mystery where past, present, and future converge, where the familiar divisions of distance and time blur or vanish altogether, and where we may encounter truths unavailable to our waking minds.
I founded The Oneiroi Project with a singular vision: to expand dream awareness on a global scale and build the tools that allow people everywhere to access the profound information their dreams carry while creating a research edifice that can allow us to see and study what has long been beyond the veil. Through DreamKeep, the project's privacy-first dream journaling platform, and a growing body of cross-cultural research, I'm working to create a living, multilingual record of human dreaming that bridges ancient wisdom with modern technology that will let us watch the world dream and chart our innermost landscapes.
Suzan
CFO & Researcher
I've been captivated by the dream world for as long as I can remember. As a child, I often wondered whether waking life was the real dream and the dream state was actually more true. That question never left me. Growing up with constant night terrors, a near-death experience at age five, and numerous out-of-body experiences throughout my life, I felt compelled to understand what dreams and altered states of consciousness were really showing us.
In 2005, a series of intense experiences, often described by modern psychologists as "sleep paralysis," deepened my commitment to explore these realms in a grounded, systematic way. This eventually led me to participate in an overnight sleep study, whose results were ultimately inconclusive. Rather than frightening me away from the dream world, these events drew me even deeper into the mystery of dreams.
This lifelong curiosity led me to study psychology in college and later complete a Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.) with a focus on psychology. I've immersed myself in the work of consciousness pioneers such as Robert Monroe, Carl Jung, David Hawkins, Dolores Cannon, and Brian Weiss, and explored shamanic perspectives on dreaming through workshops with The Foundation for Shamanic Studies. My work with hypnosis as a tool for healing has further reinforced how profoundly our inner dreamscapes can shape our lives.
I see dreams as a rich, symbolic language of the psyche and the soul, often helping us work through what we are not yet fully facing in waking life. Some dreams may be prophetic, but many are invitations: to heal trauma, understand our patterns, and reclaim emotional freedom. As CFO and researcher with The Oneiroi Project, I bring together my background in psychology, education, spiritual inquiry, and lived experience with non-ordinary states of consciousness to explore dreams as a bridge between consciousness, healing, and human potential.
Tamara
Dream Guide & Researcher
I first met Drew and Suzan in the context of Vedic astrology. When I began training last year to become a dream guide according to Carl Gustav Jung with the German psychologist Klaus Uwe Adam, Drew had the idea of founding a platform. We discussed together turning it into a research project. I am very grateful to Drew for taking this initiative and for immediately taking care of the design of the platform and the DreamKeep app.
I have been interested in dreams since my youth. My mother was also very attuned to them, and as a family we would share and discuss our dreams in the mornings. This had the effect of sensitizing us, and our ability to remember our dreams improved more and more. In other words, we became increasingly capable of recalling them.
Exactly the same thing happens when dreams are regularly recorded in the DreamKeep app. The simple act of writing them down—or, as in this case, recording them as audio—leads to a significant improvement in dream recall.
And why is this so important? Dreams are an incredibly fascinating and powerful tool for entering into dialogue with our unconscious. The unconscious has its own language, with very specific symbols as well as archetypal symbols that carry universal meaning. Carl Gustav Jung identified this clearly. When we engage with our dreams—and I want to emphasize that not all dreams serve this function, since some are simply a processing of daily impressions—there are also dreams that leave a strong impact, where you wake up the next day wondering, "What was that?" Or dreams accompanied by very intense emotions. It is quite possible to distinguish between these types. There are also recurring dreams.
When we examine such dreams closely—their structure and the emotions we experience within them—we can learn a great deal about ourselves, about both our potentials and our shadow aspects. This is what Jung described as a path toward the process of individuation.
I hold a degree in art, and I would say that I have always been deeply fascinated by symbols—both in painting and within cultural contexts. Symbols have continually engaged and inspired me, whether in artistic work, astrology, or dreams.
I am convinced that working with dreams—and having the opportunity, through this research project, to learn more about this phenomenon—contributes to fostering introspection and encouraging engagement with one's own shadow aspects and potentials. Especially now, in this fast-paced world so dominated by external stimuli, I advocate for a turning inward, toward the inner world of dreams.
