Unraveling the Dream (2026)

In *The Doors of Perception* (1954), Aldous Huxley described the human drive to escape self-awareness as “a fundamental hunger of the spirit.” He believed psychedelics could democratize this experience of ego-loss and spark a cultural revolution. Yet dissolving the self is one challenge; weaving that insight back into daily life is quite another. And as the chaotic experiments of the 1960s remind us, trying to build a society around self-transcendence is a risky—if thrilling—quest. “Unraveling the Dream,” a new documentary from the Waking Up meditation app, investigates whether modern psychedelic science can offer fresh answers to Huxley’s bold questions. Featuring exclusive conversations with Anil Seth, Robin Carhart-Harris, and Shamil Chandaria, the film guides audiences across the cutting edge of neuroscience and through the vivid, turbulent history of psychedelics.