Karen Emslie
Freelance,
Karen Emslie is a Scottish writer and essayist. She has written for Smithsonian, GOOD, Discover, Huck, BBC Wildlife & more. She is 100% Vagabond and is currently in Patagonia.
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Biography and memoir
Riding the wind
Hot and bothersome or exhilarating and wild: winds blow through the mind as strongly as they blow through the landscape
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Sleep and dreams
Broken sleep
People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?
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Consciousness and altered states
Hallucinogenic nights
Sleep paralysis has tormented me since childhood. But now it’s my portal to out-of-body travel and lucid dreams
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