About Dreamlab
Dreamlab is the research, training, and development effort founded by Jonathan Yankovich. Dreamlab’s purpose is to enable people to “create at the speed of thought, in the physical and online world”.
Dreamlab.clinic is an offshoot of Dreamlab: a membership-based community for health and performance advocates. Currently open to friends and family, we use sub-clinical methods to deliver results that would otherwise need a clinic, where possible, and give you the information you need to manage your own care more effectively.
Dreamlab conducts research and development in a number of areas including human performance optimization, in both wellness (returning to baseline) and performance (exceeding it).
in Jonathan’s words
I’m not an authority on anything. What I am is a man, an engineer, and a healer. I hold certifications in various healing modalities, mainly in the realm of language-based interventions. My background in programming, 3D printing, mycology, and user experience design all support my passion for uncovering new and exciting ways for human beings to achieve what they want.
I started Dreamlab.clinic after experiencing hyperbaric oxygen therapy for mild depression and existential malaise. The relief I got after only a couple of sessions really got my attention. As I explored the mechanisms underlying HBOT’s unreasonable effectiveness, I learned about the power of deep-penetrating near-infrared light as well. I found that the right NIR light worked amazingly well: for my joint pain, even headaches, tingles in my limbs. I was really impressed.
What I saw is that HBOT and real, quality NIR light therapy are out of reach of most people, due to information, equipment, and general ignorance. I decided that if I can bring this healing to people, it would be a worthy way to spend the remainder of my life.
Since returning from the Bay Area around the time of COVID, I had been somewhat lost. The engineering jobs I would have taken in the past didn’t satisfy me. I found myself in a place of accepting the world as it is, and being unsatisfied with it all the same. Instead of making myself wrong, I decided that my gift is valuable: I can contribute to others and improve the world. I can be an active participant in civilization, help shape it, not just be shaped by it.
To that end, Dreamlab is fairly opinionated. Our energy is passionately pro-client. In some programs, our ideas can land as uncomfortable. Think of it as a chiropractic adjustment for your worldview.
Dreamlab differs from other “healing centers”, and at first glance may include contradictions. What’s hiding in the contradictions is a more holistic worldview, one that encompasses both human greatness and human weakness; scientific research that doesn’t invalidate individual experience.
Masculine wellness work. Where a lot of wellness leans on technique, subtlety, and intuition — massage, reiki, acupuncture, sound baths, energy work — dreamlab works the other way. We use technology and measurement to supercharge your cells, and we trust your body to do the rest.
What that looks like, for qualifying members:
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy at 1.5 ATA, with 90% concentrated oxygen at the nose. The research at this pressure tracks lower inflammation, more cellular energy, and new blood vessel growth into worked tissue.
- Deep-tissue near-infrared light at 820nm (850+ mW/cm²). This wavelength and intensity go through your tissue, through your cell walls, and deliver energy to parts of your body that have literally never seen the light of day. Contrast the “red light panels” that treat the skin’s surface and seldom penetrate more than a millimeter.
- Transcranial photobiomodulation at 810nm through the skull (Vielight).
- Equine-assisted therapy (Phase II) for groups and providers, by inquiry.
It’s less than other places. We are not of the medical establishment, and we don’t carry its overhead: no insurance billing, no clinical staffing, no facility built around a billing department. Our equipment, protocols, and staffing are designed to deliver most of the benefit of these treatments at a fraction of the usual cost.
Dreamlab has also developed Mantra, a personalized whole-being health coach, built in-house by Jonathan. It acts more like a fastidious acquaintance than a car-dealership chatbot. It’s designed to track your symptoms over time, so you can see yourself making progress. It runs on fully local infrastructure, so your information never touches the cloud.* Your progress is tracked across days, weeks, and years, stored for free, and available to you at any time.
* Text messages go direct to your carrier, like any text. Everything else runs on AI infrastructure we maintain ourselves, down to the CUDA version, on hardware we own. It makes contact with the internet only when required.
Early days. The practice is small and the work is being refined with every session. Our website will continue to evolve, as we do.
It’s a private residence on acreage — five horses in a paddock, and a creek along the edge: Badfish Creek, fed by the Nine Springs outflow. Your session happens in a quiet room. If the weather’s good, you might spend time with the horses after.
