Bryan Lewis Saunders (born 1969, in Washington, D.C.) is an endurance artist, a performance artist, videographer, performance poet, and daily-self-portrait artist known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and stand-up tragedy events where he would attempt to make live audiences cry. In 2003, Saunders began sleeping with a cassette recorder and documenting both his dreams and sleep talking which led to a wealth of source material for both audio releases and books. The transcriptions of his lengthy somniloquy combined with graphic dream descriptions are an example of the stream of unconsciousness (narrative mode), not to be confused with the popular "stream of conscious" writing style, as he is totally unconscious while recording parts of his dreams.