2021 International IASD Virtual Conference Program

2021 International IASD Virtual Conference Program Sunday 13 June through Thursday 17 June 2021

Note: check periodically as minor changes may be made without notice Sun 6/13

Zoom Room Type Title of Session Presenters Summary

8:00-9:00 MR TBD Staff Orientation Session Track Managers and Volunteers to attend

9:20- 11:30 MR#6 Keynote

w/live Q&A

9:20 attendees should begin entering the waiting room for the Opening Keynote 9:30-10:00 Welcome and Announcements (Angel Morgan & Bob Hoss)

10:00–11:30 Keynote: Fanny Brewster Dreams: Letting My Heart Be Broken

(Angel Morgan introduction) 11:30–12:00 30 min Break

Sunday 12:00-1:30

SUNDAY OPENING SESSIONS

MR#1 Invited

Research Presentation

Bad Dreams and Nightmares:

Causes, Correlates, and Interventions

Michael Nadorff

Although people are often quick to describe their dreams, most are reticent about their bad dreams and nightmares. Why do we have bad dreams and nightmares, what effect do they have, and what can be done about them? This presentation will address these questions through blending both old and new literature, as well as presenting some original data, to gain a better understanding of what makes these dreams different.

MR#2 Lucidity Symposium

Lucid Dreaming: Therapy as a Catalyst to

Experience Clear Mind, Inner light

Robert Waggoner &

Nigel Hamilton

Light in lucid dreams will be viewed broadly. We discuss the use of the Waking Dream Technique when working with a client’s lucid dreams. This can ultimately lead from the dissolution of the subject/object split in the client’s psyche to their seeing the illusory nature of their mental projections and experiencing a spiritual awakening.

MR#3 Dreams & Arts Symposium

Into the Dream Navel

Lana Nasser, Alisa

Minyukova, Kelly Bulkeley

Working as a dream-arts group in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge that the Dream Mapping Project will overcome by turning our performance-based work into a spoken word soundscape meditation for conference attendees to experience virtually. Discussion with DMP artists will follow this dream-inspired sound art journey.

MR#4

Dream/ Meditation Workhshop

(14 limit)

Yoga Nidra: An Effortless Sleep-based Meditation

Kimberly R. Mascaro

Yoga Nidra is a sleep-based meditation. Body, breath, and awareness techniques merge to support states of expanded awareness and relaxation. Here, in between sleeping and waking, we can restore balance and feel rejuvenated. Come experience the art and practice of this non-doing state of being. No previous experience necessary.

1:30 –2:00 30 min Break

Sunday 2:00-3:30

OPENING RECEPTIONS

MR#1 Research Reception

Researcher Gathering

Katja Valli & Michelle Carr

(co-hosts)

Research reception is a casual gathering of researchers and research committee members of IASD. It is open to all researchers and anyone interested in empirical, methodological, theoretical and conceptual aspects of dream research. Join us in this informal networking event to catch up with colleagues and to make new connections.

MR#2s General Opening

Reception

1:45 Music on Entry (C. Webb) Reception Open

to All

Angel Morgan (host)

Come one, come all! Join us in the Opening Reception to touch base and connect in the IASD Community. What do you love about IASD? Miss about IASD? Want for IASD? Together we will share many blessings for IASD, celebrating the close of the first day of IASD’s Virtual Conference.

MR#3s Regional

Rep Reception

Regional Representative

Gathering

Jeanne Van Bronkhorst

(host)

Jeanne Van Bronkhorst will be hosting this reception room for current or interested Regional Representatives. This will be a time to meet other Reps, trade stories and ideas, reconnect with friends, or find out more about what a Regional Rep can do in the IASD.

MR#4s First Timer Reception

Gathering of those New to

IASD Conferences

Geoff Nelson and Marcia Emery (co-

hosts)

We are excited to greet the first timers experiencing their first IASD conference. Come and find out how to get the most out of your conference experience. Also, find the answers to any lingering questions you might have. We would love to hear what attracted you to dream work as well as how you are using your dreams.

Mon 6/14

Zoom Room Type Title of

Session Presenters Summary

Monday 8:00-9:00

MDG1

Morning Dream

Group 1 (24 limit)

Developing the Intuition in Group

Dreamwork

Curtiss Hoffman

We will explore the ways in which intuitive perception can help in group dreamwork, following the Ullman technique as modified by Taylor along with Jungian amplification methods.

MDG 2

Morning Dream

Group 2 (24 limit)

Group Projective Method

Helen Landerman

Methods of interpretation will be the Group Projective method, Dream Interview, Gestalt, Dream Theater, the Bob Hoss color questionnaire, and art materials to draw or paint the dream.

MDG 3

Morning Dream

Group 3 (24 limit)

Spirituality and Lucidity Dream

Group David Low

Why try to be lucid? Many dreams obviously involve higher dimensions and beckon us towards enlightenment. Co-creative theory tells us that dreams want to suggest better waking-life choices by pointing out existing, dysfunctional patterns in our lives. Taylor/Ullman and Sparrow 5-Star methodologies will help us discern these messages and shift in more positive directions.

Monday 8:00-9:00

MDG 4

Morning Dream

Group 4 (24 limit)

The Universal Language of

Dreams

Victoria Rabinowe

Dreams speak a global language that transcends ethnic differences, traditions and geographical borders. Share dreams from a variety of perspectives that invite creative conversations from the communal richness of participants’ diverse backgrounds. Dream Mentor Victoria Rabinowe will create a model for an international dream community in atmosphere of respectful curiosity.

MDG 5

Morning Dream

Group 5 (12 limit)

Dream Integration (en Español)

Jordi Borràs-García

A space for Spanish-speaking dreamers who may feel more comfortable exploring their dreams in this language. In these meetings we'll have the opportunity to explore your dreams with different creative techniques and also to share them, taking into account the projections of other dreamers. Addressed to all kinds of participants.

MDG 6

Morning Dream

Group 6 (16 limit)

Listening to the Dreamer

Michael Schredl

With this approach, the dreamer is stimulated by open-ended questions to reflect on the dream experience and its relationships to waking life. Suggestions, interpretations, etc. from group members are discouraged.

MDG 7

Morning Dream

Group 7 (18 limit)

First-timers Morning Dream

Group: Welcome to the World of Your Dreams

Loren Goodman & Bernard Welt

This morning workshop for first-timers at the IASD conference provides participants with a home base to share and reflect upon new knowledge and insights gained during the conference, and introduces time-tested practices for recalling and recording dreams; exploring them in your dream journal and with others.

MDG 8

Morning Dream

Group 8 (10 limit)

The Waking Dream Process Dave Billington

The Waking Dream Process is a way of revisiting, exploring and expanding the experience of a dream for therapeutic benefit. Each morning a member's dream will be presented, briefly discussed in the group, and then explored using the Waking Dream Technique, facilitated by Dave Billington.

MDG 9

Morning Dream

Group 9 (24 limit)

Experiential Dreamwork:

Enhancing the Emotional

Immune System

Katherine Bell

We will explore the proposition that dreams are part of the natural emotional immune system and don’t need to be interpreted. We will explore and deepen our trust in our dream feelings by slowing down the images, using breath and sometimes using embodiment or role play.

To be held 1-2pm

Each Day DG 10

Dream Group 10 (20 limit)

In afternoon 1-2 pm

Indigenous Dreamwork

Apela Colorado, Beth

Duncan & Ryan Hurd

Indigenous Dreamwork is a holistic, collective, participatory process through which participants explore narratives emerging from shared dreams. Keeping with principles of Indigenous Mind, we deeply listen (no analyzing), scribe and glyph dream imagery, and then explore the collective themes and ancestral messages, particularly important during these times.

9:00 – 9:30 30 min Break

Monday 9:20-11:30 MR#6 Keynote

w/live Q&A

9:20 Attendees can enter waiting room 9:30 – 11:30 Keynote: Eduardo Duran

Dream Entity Bringing Form from the Blackworld to the Plantworld (introduction by Angel Morgan)

11:30-12:00 30 min Break

Monday 12:00-1:30

MR#1 Lucidity Symposium

Psycho-spiritual Healing in Lucidity

Melinda Powell (Chair),

Diane Greig & Nigel Hamilton

Each presenter will look at healing in lucidity from a psycho-spiritual perspective. Powell will discuss the healing of memory in relation to the lucid void. Greig will describe the healing properties of light in relation to the cultural Shadow. Hamilton will describe the influence of lucid dreaming on therapeutic outcomes.

MR#2 Ethnicity Symposium

Extended Family Networks and

Dreams

Edward Bruce Bynum

The Roots of all family systems stem from our primordial African past. These developed over time into extended familial networks, with the loom of dreams being one of the threads of this interconnectedness. This system has 5 levels, including our remote ancestors and our future progeny in an active way.

Ancestral Healing and Dreams

Bruce Bynum & Orisade Awodola

African spiritual practices are coded and modified throughout varied processes and may be utilized as a holistic approach to redirect the thought process and and motivate physical, mental and spiritual healing through Ancestral Healing.

Deepening the Research &

Scholarship of Ancestral

Dreaming, Cultural Memory, & Cultural

Continuity

Alaya A. Dannu

Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous methodologies are two frameworks that can provide the appropriate containers to assist with the development and expansion of research on ancestral dreaming and ways it can be used to enhance the scholarship process.

MR#3 Arts &

Humanities Workshop

Dream Haiku – Surfing the Edge between Sleeping

and Waking

Asha Sahni

Haiku – short, structured poems of Japanese origin – can mine rich seams in dreams, offering clarity and focus. They can sometimes unearth kernels of truth which are just beyond conscious understanding. We will explore a dream/dreams through a series of exercises, each writing and sharing several dream haiku

Monday 12:00-1:30

MR#4 Clinical Workshop

Understanding and Exploring Children’s

Nightmares: Clinical, Cultural,

and Creative Perspectives

Alan Siegel

Understanding and exploring children’s nightmares may enhance communication and treatment, soothe traumatic anxieties linked to Covid-19, social media, bullying, divorce, trauma, depression, etc. Dream sharing may stimulate creativity and alert parents and therapists to distress. The presentation will include exercises, discussion, and guidelines for mental health professionals, dreamworkers, and parents, as well as nightmare themes, interventions, cultural, and creative dimensions.

MR#5 Deamwork Workshop

Sensing the Signs (that Guide Us)

Susan Ackerman

Joseph

Sensing the Signs is an experiential offering using somatic resonance and release techniques to facilitate a deeper connection to the symbols/signs that manifest in dreams and daily life. Participants will have an opportunity to work with their own material in this workshop that includes breathwork, gentle movement, and sound.

1:30-2:00 30 min Break

Monday 2:00- 4:00 MR#1

Research Hot off the

Press Session #1

Does global warming affect dream content?

Analyzing a 30-yr. dream series

Michael Schredl

The continuity hypothesis of dreaming postulates that dreams reflect waking life. A long dream series recorded between 1984 and 2015 (30 years) including 11,808 dreams showed that “cold” elements like snow, ice, and hail occurred less often over time and, thus, indicates that dreams might provide clues regarding global changes.

Dreams of the Deceased: Evolution of Content and

Frequency During the First Year of

Bereavement

Aurélien de la Chapelle

According to the hypothesis attributing a role to dreaming in emotional regulation, one would expect a link between dreams and the mourning process. In recently bereaved persons, over a 1-year period, we collect dreams and questionnaires on the mourning process to test whether these measures are related.

Dreaming of the sleep lab: a large database study

Claudia Picard-Deland

The phenomenon of dreaming about the laboratory–when participating in a sleep study–is common, yet often overlooked. Here, we investigated those lab reactivations from a large database of dreams collected from laboratory studies to investigate their phenomenological characteristics along with various trait and state factors underlying their occurrence.

Associations between dream recall frequency,

nightmare severity and daydreaming

characteristics

Louis-Philippe Marquis

We present new findings addressing the relationship between dreaming and daydreaming, further documenting continuity between dreaming, daydreaming and waking processes. We gathered data from participants’ spontaneous thought processes while they undergone an MRI scan. Interestingly, dream and nightmare variables were associated with different daydreaming characteristics.

Monday 2:00- 4:00 MR#1


Press Session #1

(Continued)

Nightmare Proneness and Psychological Boundaries as Predictors of Nightmare Frequency

William E. Kelly & Sarah

Rhodes

Nightmare proneness, a trait-like disposition to experience frequent nightmares, has been found to account for nightmare frequency outside of general distress, neuroticism, and trauma symptoms. The current study utilized a student sample to investigate the separate contributions of nightmare proneness and Hartmann’s concept of “thin” boundaries in predicting nightmare frequency.

Post-trauma nightmares

language use and nightmare severity

Caitlin Paquet

Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy incorporates the writing down, and rescripting, of a trauma survivor’s most distressing nightmare. The current study established significant relationships between the language used in nightmares and their re-scriptions within cognitive and emotional domains and nightmare severity, when controlling for PTSD and depression symptom severity.

Testing an Integrated Protocol for the Treatment of

Nightmares and Other PTSD-

Related Symptoms

Remington Mallett

& Gregory Scott Sparrow

Preliminary data shows increased lucidity, reflectiveness, fear, conflict, and negative emotions in dreams (over galantamine or placebo conditions alone) as a result of the integrated protocol (Middle of the Night Meditation/ Nightmare Reliving/galantamine), which supports the hypothesis that the protocol may establish conditions for exposure and resolution of nightmare content.

Do We Gesture

While Speaking in Dreams?

Daniel Oldis

Many if not most people tend to gesture when speaking in waking life. It would seem natural, then, if when we speak in dreams (as research has shown), that we, our dream egos, also gesture while talking. Electromyography (EMG) gathered from the Univ. of Texas in 2016 supports this idea.

Monday 2:00-4:00

MR#2 Ethnicity Panel

The Science of Dreams and

Dreaming in the African American

Traditions

Edward Bruce Bynum (Mod),

Fanny Brewster, Orisade

Awodola, Alaya Dannu

We will share perspectives on the diverse role dreams play in the many African American traditions and beliefs concerning the clinical, spiritual, ancestral and Jungian dimensions of dreaming.

MR#3 Spiritual Workshop

How to use our dreams for spiritual

growth.

Claude Couture

Through dreams we can discover ourselves as spiritual beings, receive inner guidance and messages that uplift our consciousness and free ourselves from the limitations of the human condition. What are spiritual dreams and what kind of experiences can we expect from them? How may we cultivate them? I present a personal viewpoint.

Monday 2:00- 4:00

MR#4 Dreamwork Workshop (23 limit)

Leading Innovative and Successful Dream Groups

Justina Lasley

Participants will explore step-by-step processes of organizing and leading dream groups. They will develop a template for their group -- focusing on creating the group, agendas, guidelines, problem solving, and mentoring personal transformation. Participants, while focusing on individual goals, will learn innovative and successful techniques by working in a dream group.

MR#5 Dreamwork Workshop

Drawing From the Unconscious Walter E Berry

You will be surprised how much pours out of the unconscious by making a simple sketch of a dream and then working with it. Join us in this lively, dynamic approach to experiencing dreams through the visual. Humor and depth are the earmarks of this workshop. Don’t miss it.

4:00-4:30 30 min Break

Monday 4:30 – 6:30 MR#1


Press Session #2

Such stuff as lucid dreams are made on: Characterizing

lucid dream phenomenology using big data

Remington Mallett

The difference between lucid and non-lucid dreams was explored using text analytics. We reveal that, in a large dataset of online dream reports, lucid dreams are less negative, more perceptual, and less social than non-lucid dreams.

Effectiveness of Lucid Dreaming

and Sleep Hygiene Techniques to

Reduce Stress in Graduate Students

Pat Precin

The top three impediments to academic success self-reported by 2,149 college students were stress, anxiety, and sleep difficulties according to the National College Health Assessment of 2018. This poster will present the results of a 12-week lucid dreaming, sleep hygiene, and stress management intervention to reduce stress in graduate students.

Dream Images during Covid-19

Pandemic

Luiza Bontempo

e Silva

We will present an empirical study on dream images during covid-19 pandemic. The aim is to understand how the social restrictions and the pandemic is affecting dreamers and dream images of adults and emerging adults in México. The study is being finished, so the results are not conclusive yet.

Dreamdrawing for emotional memory

reconsolidation

Sophie

Boudrias

Dreaming is a highly visual experience, imbued with emotion and strongly associated with the consolidation of memory. This presentation proposes the use of dreamdrawing for the reconsolidation of emotional memory, as a complement to the dream narrative.

A Questionnaire to Measure the Dream Work

William E.

Kelly & Elida Stewart

The dream work refers to a cognitive process through which distressing thoughts and affects are cognitively distorted during dreams to lessen their effects and protect sleep. The current study reports the development and investigation of a measure intended to assess the dream work. Findings and conclusions are presented.

Monday 4:30 – 6:30


Press Session #2 (continued)

Dora Contra Freud:

Enabling Dora to Interpret Her Own

Dreams

Jerry L. Jennings

Freud’s determination to demonstrate Oedipal conflicts and inaccurate English translation of Dora’s dreams by Strachey have distorted Dora's original dream narrative. By applying the “dreams without disguise” methodology and details of the real historical Dora, we see how Dora could have more directly understood the meaning of her own dreams.

“Lucid dreaming in

Martín Gaite’s novel The Back

Room”

Olga Colbert

I explore lucid dreaming in The Back Room, a novel by Carmen Martín Gaite that reflects on the writing process and on life under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. My study illuminates the text by placing it under the lens of scientific research on dreaming and other altered states of consciousness.

MR#2 Cultural Symposium

Virgil's Aeneid and Aeneas' False

Dream of Ancient Rome

Daniel Harris-McCoy

In Book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas’s dream is equated to a false dream. Building on the work of Tarrant and others, this presentation uses a Platonic explanation of false dreams as wish-fulfillments to explain the contrasting presentations of Roman history found in the Underworld and Shield episodes of the Aeneid.

Monday 4:30 – 6:30

Spiritual "Big Dreams" in Japan: Dreams that Set Shinran on the

Path as a Buddhist

Misa Tsuruta

Shinran is one of the most famous Buddhist priests in Japanese history, the founder of Jodo-Shinshu sect. However, his "Big Dreams" are less known to the public. In this presentation, his three big dreams will be introduced and discussed, along with his life and career as a Buddhist.

Dreams Behind the Music: Dreaming Classical, Popular

& Folk Artists, Instrumentalists,

Musical Shamans & Others

Craig Webb

We explore how dreams have brought musical, lyrical, production and collaboration ideas for composers, folk and popular artists, as well as musical calling/healing dreams for shamans worldwide. Also revealed will be premonition and visitation dreams of various artists, plus a mini-medley of melodies inspired by little-known dreams, including the presenter’s.

The Aesthetics of

Dream Narrative in the 19th British

Novels

Yue Wang

This presentation discusses dream narrative from four dimensions: the ambiguities in characters’ identities and the board line of waking and dreaming, the grotesque in body transformations and logic thinking, the poetic existence in dream images and the strong and real emotion of characters’ dream narrative to reveal its aesthetic values.

Monday 4:30 – 6:30

MR#3 Dreams & The Arts

Workshop

The Language of Dreams: Poetry of

the Soul

Victoria Rabinowe

Transpose dreams of the night into poetry and prose with inventive methods that explore symbols, metaphors, paradoxes from shifting perspectives. Provocative writing prompts the unraveling of the riddles of the night and guides participants to write with passionate insight. The creative potential of DreamWriting is an unlimited source of inspiration for dream interpretation.

MR#4 Clinical Workshop (12 limit)

Somatic Art Therapy

Dreamwork

Johanne Hamel

Combining Art Therapy Dreamwork and her expertise on Somatic art therapy, in this workshop Dr. Johanne Hamel offers an original way to work on dreams through bodily dream sensation. She will briefly explain her 4-Quadrants art therapy method and guide participants’ experimentation with their own dreams.


Dreams: Theater of Our Inner World

Heloisa Garman

Dreams can be seen as a stage where various parts or aspects of ourselves are manifested, representing our inner world. Workshop participants will learn how to interact with dream images, obtaining insight into their feelings, belief systems and their patterns of interaction.

6:30-7:00 30 min Break

Monday 7:00-8:00 MR#1

Dream Telepathy Contest

Robert Waggoner & Cynnie Pearson (hosts)

Try your Psi! Test your dreaming mind's ability to tune into a visual target that will be broadcast telepathically during the night by a designated 'sender.' Loosely patterned on the Maimonides Dream Laboratory experiments by Drs. Krippner and Ullman, the annual IASD contest is a playful way to test your dream telepathy skills. Instructions will be given during this session to make it easy to join in the fun.

Tues 6/15

Zoom Room Type Title of Session Presenters

Summary

Tuesday 8:00-9:00

Personal Meeting Rooms

Morning Dream Groups

Repeat daily. See Monday Schedule for Details on Morning Dream Groups and their Access Codes

9:00-9:30 30 min Break

Tuesday 9:20–11:30 MR#6 Keynote

w/live Q&A

9:20 Attendees may begin entering the waiting room 9:30-11:30 Keynote: Tore Nielsen

The Case of Sleep Onset Dreaming (Katja Valli introduction)

11:30-12:00 30 min Break

Tuesday 12:00-2:00 MR#1

Research Symposium Threat and

Crisis Dreaming

Survey of Pandemic Dreams

Deirdre Barrett, Sanja Šćepanović, &

Luca Maria Aiello

A survey of 12,000+ pandemic dreams was analyzed by: 1) a qualitative reading for literal and metaphoric themes, 2) a comparison with normal era dreams utilizing Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and 3) a deep-learning method identifying symptoms and emotions in dreams vs. waking conversations about COVID-19.

Did COVID-19 Pandemic Increase Threatening Events & Threats Related

to Diseases in Dreams?

Ville Loukola

We investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on threatening dream content in a systematic two-week dream diary sample collected during lock-down from 91 Finnish participants, expecting that the pandemic would increase the number of threats in dreams, and especially threats related to diseases and illnesses.

Crisis Dreaming in 2020 Kelly Bulkeley

This presentation reports the findings of four large surveys about sleep and dreams from various points in 2020 (April, May, June, October) (Total N >15K). Participants answered questions about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the US Presidential election. Implications for caregiving practice and dream theory are discussed.

Nightmare Distress, Frequency, and

Beliefs about Nightmares

Michael Schredl

In addition to nightmare frequency, certain beliefs about nightmares increase distress due to nightmares. Treatment programs should include psycho-education in addition to techniques reducing nightmare frequency.

Tuesday 12:00-2:00

MR#2

Dreamwork Symposium Dreams of the Past;

Methods for the Present

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Exploring Dream Geography

Curtiss Hoffman

In dreams, we often find ourselves in defined locations. Many are familiar places, which tends to confirm the Continuity Hypothesis. But sometimes we dream into locations which we’ve never visited. Some of our dreams allow us to enter into “othermind”: the experience of other selves accessible through the dream state.

Taking Dream Work Online in the

Times of Corona: Group Dynamics and

Voyeuristic Tendencies

Rose Mersky & Anton

Zemlyanoy

Social Dream Drawing, a method for working with dreams in groups and developed by Dr. Rose Merksy, has previously been an in-person-only method. In 2020 it has been adapted for online, not only with dreamers, but also to train facilitators. However, online facilitation brings with it unforeseen peculiarities and difficulties.

A Layman’s Interpretation of

Vivid Dreams and How They Affect

His Life

Joshua Suri

The speaker will walk the audience through his methodology for recording/recollecting dreams, and his lay interpretation of what his dreams mean to him and how they reflect his past life and impact his current living. The focus will be on 3 – 4 very vivid, powerful, detailed dreams.

Remember and Understand

Dreams Insightfully

G. Nathan Feinstein

An enhanced approach to Dr. Garfield’s way to “the most complete recall [of dreams] with the least effort” is presented. Dr. Patricia Garfield, PhD., is an IASD Founder and author of the bestseller, “Creative Dreaming”. The enhancement, My Dream Guides, is a writing and insight finding tool, which you may try here, that facilitates writing about just-ended dreams with eyes still closed.

MR#3 Arts &

Humanities Workshop

An Ullman Dream Discussion with

Artwork Produced so as to Revisit the Dream with Friends

and Family

Mark Blagrove & Julia

Lockheart

Mark Blagrove and the audience will discuss a dream with the dream-sharer, and Julia Lockheart will create a painting of the dream. Previous artworks can be seen at http://DreamsID.com. An enlarged print of the artwork will be sent to the dreamer afterwards to aid revisiting the dream with friends and family.


Healing the Inner Child through

Dreams

Kiran Anumalasetty

The inner child dreams are the dreams where the child within tries to express itself. Childhood traumas, repressed anger, sadness, fear, shame are expressed in dream symbols and language. Understanding the inner child dreams help us heal, embrace and welcome the inner child back into our lives.


Parts of the Whole - Dreams as

Interconnected Consciousness

Fiona Bell

This experiential workshop explores the unseen thread that connects us. Inviting a group dream, participants will respond with their own dream symbol. Using creative exercises to embody the energy of the dream symbol, we will reflect on how expression of this unique aspect of ourselves contributes to the greater whole.

2:00-2:30 30 min Break

Tuesday 2:30-4:00 MR#1 Research

Symposium

A New Lens on Dreams and Nightmares

Alwin E. Wagener

The results of a new study on dreams and nightmares among survivors of intimate partner violence will be presented. Participants will learn of five types of dreams and nightmares, their relationship to PTSD and insomnia among survivors of intimate partner violence, and how these findings may inform counseling and psychotherapy.

PTSD Nightmare Content:

Comparative Study of a Vietnam Vet with 45 Years of Dream Records

Robert Hoss

A comparative content analysis is presented for a single case study of a Vietnam Vet with PTSD, comparing content of 45 years of the post-combat recorded nightmares and dreams across 4 recording periods suggestive of 4 recovery stages. Content profile is also compared with norms and other combat-related PTSD studies.

Tuesday 2:30-4:00

MR#2

Imagery Panel:

Living the Dream That Every Child Is a Work of

Art

Imagery Within the Dreamtime Dreams to Empower Women

Alixandra Summitt (Chair)

Alixandra Summitt’s imagery inspires women’s empowerment. She will show artwork derived from her dreamtime dreams on the theme of women’s empowerment.

Drawing from the Dream: Art Dreams

Life, An Artist’s Perspective

Denise Kester

Denise Kester provides dream tools for accessing deeper regions of our inner consciousness for children of all ages. Denise will discuss and reveal the important relationship between dream work and artwork. She will share art and stories illustrating the importance of tapping the resources available to all who wish to have a deeper understanding of the interconnected relationship between Art, Dreams, & Life.

Every Child Is a Work of Art Melissa Parks

Melissa Parks teaches children to make artwork based on their dreamtime dreams and emboldens empathy for children in foster care.


Avoiding Premature Closure:

Reconsidering Your Dream's Meaning

David Low

Dreamers will re-evaluate dreams which are either mysterious or might be worked further. In small groups we will ask often overlooked questions about the dream, about the life context it might help us with, and we will attune to feelings which may be the greatest asset to growth and understanding.


Dream Surfing: Embodied fluidity of

experiential dreamwork

Leslie Ellis

When we truly enter our living dream experiences, we are changed an is the dream. Participants will learn, witness and experience embodied dreamwork practices that allow you to surf your dream world while awake, inviting your dreams to play forward with your active, imaginative participation.

MR#5

Arts & Humanities Workshop (20 limit)

Serious Play: Surrealist Dream Writing Workshop

Loren Goodman

This workshop encourages participants to approach dreams as a rich and abundant source for literary artistic production both in verse and prose. In it, we will experiment primarily with the collaborative, collage-like Surrealist technique known as the “exquisite corpse."

4:00-4:30 30 min Break

Tuesday 4:30-5:30

MR#1

Dreams & the Arts Symposium What’s in the

Dream? A Midsummer’s View of Shakespeare’s Play of Dreams and Dreamers

The Dark Magic of A Midsummer Night’s

Dream Kelly Bulkeley A Midsummer Night’s Dream moves, delights, and baffles

us—just like an actual dream. This presentation uncovers the mysteries of the play: its mythic and archetypal resonance, its celebration of the power of imagination, its foundation in Renaissance dream theory, and the reasons it remains enchanting for contemporary audiences.

The Dream from Shakespeare’s Time

to Ours Bernard Welt

MR#2 Research

Symposium Dream States

A Comparison of the Experiences of Lucid

Dreamers Using Galantamine to

Induce WILD Lucid Dreams

Gregory Scott Sparrow

This presentation is based on a survey that was administered to three advanced lucid dreamers, each of whom has used galantamine as a way to induce lengthy and stable experiences from the waking state. The questionnaire was administered blindly, such that the responses were not known to each other.

Differentiating Dreams from

Wakefulness by Automatic Content

Analysis and Support Vector Machines

Xiaofang Zheng

This study tested inconsistencies between dreams and waking life using the automatic content analysis technique by LIWC. Furthermore, we built SVM models to precisely detect binary characteristics of dreams, and here it was investigated whether a text described waking life or dreams, based on the word frequencies of various categories.


Leading Dream Groups in Person and

on the Internet

Azima Lila Forest

This presentation will focus on structures and techniques for leading dream groups, both in person and via the Internet. It will include material on the format used for each dream session and the process used in working with each dream.


PTSDreams: Transform Nightmares

to Healing with the GAIA Method

(Guided Active Imagination Approach)

Linda Yael Schiller

Distressing nightmares frequently follow recent and historical traumatic events. This workshop examines how public trauma such as pandemics or trans-generational trauma, and private trauma such as abuse, is expressed in dreams both symbolically and as "memory bursts" of previously dissociated memory and offers methods for resolution and healing.

MR#5 Psi Workshop

Life-Altering Dreams, Lucid Dreams,

Premonitions & other Inner<>Outer

Catalysts

Craig Webb

Everyone wants a fulfilling life, yet we have lessons to learn along the way, and "fulfilling" is open for interpretation. The workshop will encourage respectful dreamsharing, including lucid, precognitive, and other dreams and subjective experiences, exploring how they can act as a valuable inner GPS along our richest soul path.

5:30-6:00 30 min Break

Tuesday 6:00-7:30 MR#1

General Membership Meeting Including the Outgoing Presidential Address & Incoming Presidential Address

One of the primary purposes of our annual conferences is to hold the annual IASD Membership Meeting. This meeting is open to all attendees – members, non-members, and those curious about becoming a member. This is a chance to meet our members, our incoming officers and board, and to hear about recent IASD achievements and future plans from our outgoing and incoming presidents. We welcome and encourage your attendance.

7:30-7:45 15 min Break Tuesday 7:45-8:30 Link Psi Film Event Parallel Gems

Bhaskar Banerji

This short experimental film, set in India & Death Valley, California (30 min), explores the relationship between dreams, parallel worlds and psychic phenomenon.

Wed 6/16


Wednesday 8:00-9:00



Repeats daily. See Monday Schedule for Details on Morning Dream Groups and their Access Codes

9:00-9:30 30 min Break

Wednesday 9:30-11:30 MR#1

Research Symposium

Social Contexts

Partners and Ex-partners in Dreams: A

Diary Study

Michael Schredl

In this diary study with 425 students, partner dreams were more common than ex-partner dreams. Although the interactions with ex-partners were more negatively toned than interactions with the partner, the ex-partner interactions also included more positive emotions.

Effects of Social Seclusion on Social

Dream Content Katja Valli

We tested the Sociality Bias hypothesis, the Strengthening hypothesis and the Compensation hypothesis of the Social Simulation theory by investigating the effects of social seclusion on the number and quality of social dream content while controlling for social interactions during wakefulness.

Dream and Discussion Variable Moderators of the Effect of Dream-Sharing on State

Empathy

Mark Blagrove

Previous work shows that dream-sharing and discussion of dreams following the Ullman method increases the empathy of the discusser towards the dream-sharer. This study investigates the moderating influence of the length of the dream in words, the length of the discussion, and the number of discussions, on the empathy effect.

Thirty Dreams from Transgender Males in

Retrospect

Stanley Krippner

In 1974 I published a content analysis of nighttime dreams reported by 10 males who identified as female, no more than 3 dreams per participant. These dream reports contained 12 instances where there were significantly fewer mentions than from normative males and 7 where there were more mentions than from normative females.

Wednesday 9:30-11:30

MR#2

Dreams & the Arts

Symposium Dreaming,

Imagination, Creativity

Dreams, Creativity, and the Arts

Angel Morgan (Chair) Creativity is fundamental to the human mind: how we

perceive the world and define and pursue the goals of life and share our own vision. Today’s talks connect creativity to dreaming through psychology, philosophy, critical theory, and numerous historical and contemporary instances of art and ideas derived from dreams.

Dream-sharing, Play, and Art Kelly Bulkeley

Dreaming, Imagination, and

Creativity: From Cave Painting to the

Information Superhighway

Bernard Welt

MR#3 Arts &

Humanities Workshop

Lucid on the Page: A Writing Experience

for Dreamers Tzivia Gover

Author Jorge Luis Borges has said, “Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.” In this workshop, we’ll use dream lucidity to make our writing more vivid and alive. Simple techniques to achieve dream lucidity will be offered, as well as ways to be lucidly aware when writing while awake.


Social Dreaming Matrix: Dreams of the

Earth

Dave Billington

Attendees will participate in a "Social Dreaming Matrix", sharing dreams and associations, allowing shared external concerns and creativity to emerge. A theme of Earth Dreams will be a loose framework for the Matrix.


A Social Dream-Drawing Workshop:

What Do I Risk in my Transition?

Rose Redding Mersky &

Anton Zemlyanoy

Social Dream-Drawing is a methodology that helps those going through major personal and professional transitions to better understand and cope with the inevitable pressures associated with these big life changes. Participants are invited to bring recent dream drawings to the workshop. Together we will work with them in a creative and exploratory way and link their contents to participants’ current transitions.

11:30-12:00 30 min Break


MR#1

Research Symposium Dream to Waking

Association

Pain and Nightmares - An Investigation of a Chronic pain Patient

Sample

Jonas Mathes

Until now, research about pain in dreams has remained sparse. In our study, chronic pain patients were hypothesized to have a higher nightmare frequency than healthy persons, and to report more pain in their dreams. The data was able to confirm all of our hypotheses.

IASDer Dream Messages: Psychology,

Reliability and Life-Journey Benefits

David Low

Anecdotal accounts abound, but little systematic work has been done on dream meanings. A survey of IASD members reveals personal understandings of their nature, source(s), accuracy, and affective nature, perceived life benefits both generally and with life passages, ways the dreams communicate, plus dreamers’ dialogue, misgivings and levels of compliance with messages.

Long-Term Statistics of School Dreams Nori Muster

This study will track the word "school" in a sample of 6,514 dreams recorded by the same person over twenty years. I anticipate an increase of school dreams during the years the dreamer was enrolled in school. The study will provide statistical evidence of continuity between dream and daytime concerns.

MR#2 Spiritual Symposium

A Dream for the Earth Tony Hawkins

My dream presented at the 2019 conference pre-referenced unpredictable world events both in 2016 and 2020. This suggests consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of the material universe but is intimate with its cause. We need dream reading AI both to access this wholistic intelligence and to life-tune AI.

Existential Crisis Resulting in a Crucifixion and

Resurrection by the Spirit of Christ

Ronald Bugaj

This presentation reveals a real time confrontation with death, during an existential crisis. The downward no exit spiral ends in a crucifixion experience. A breath and visualization meditation manifests a dream encounter with the Spirit of Christ, who directs me to follow and ascend with him, in a symbolic resurrection.

Mr#3 Lucidity Symposium

Accessing Unique Levels of Creativity in

Lucid Dreams

Robert Waggoner

(chair)

Lucid dreaming serves as a revolutionary psychological tool, which allows for observing, exploring and scientifically experimenting while consciously being aware of dreaming. In this presentation, you will learn how lucid dreamers access three unique levels of creativity, interact with a non-visible responsive inner awareness, and utilize the hidden framework of dreaming.

Lucid vs. Non-lucid Dream Healing:

Comparing Approaches

Bhaskar Banerji

This presentation is based upon the results of my 2018 PhD dissertation on incubating healing dreams, one aspect of which was to compare lucid vs. non-lucid dream healing approaches.


MR#4 Dreams & The Arts Workshop

(23 limit) Lucid Dream Drama Angel Morgan

With elements of Gestalt psychology, Psychodrama, Improvisation, and Lucid Dreaming, volunteer dreamers will cast, direct, and if they wish, act within their dream ‘scenes’ with Dr. Morgan’s assistance. Learn when and how to creatively, intuitively rewrite and redirect parts of the dream ‘script’ in the service of healing and wholeness.

MR#5 Dreams &

Health Workshop

How Dreams Bring Comfort at the End of

Life


This workshop will explore dreams of the dying and their families, and the benefits of talking about dreams. Drawing upon research, interviews with healthcare professionals, and her work as a hospice social worker, Jeanne will present a simple dream appreciation approach that upholds the dignity of the dreamer.

1:30-2:00 30 min Break

Wednesday 2:00-4:00 MR#1 Dreamwork

Symposium

Dreams in the Process of

Psychotherapy

Theresa Coimbra

In my work as a psychologist, as a Jungian analyst for over 30 years, patients often bring dreams about me, or I have dreams about them. In this talk, I share my process for handling this initially delicate situation and how the therapeutic process can be deepened as a result.

Dream Reports: From Textual Analysis to

Textual Play

Patricia A Kilroe

This lecture examines precognitive dream experiences, offering comprehensive information pertaining to their history, phenomenology, potential neural underpinnings, and the implications for consciousness and the philosophical theories of determinism and nondeterminism. The exposition will be useful for clinicians, researchers, and laypersons hoping to gain insight into a sublime, age-old phenomenon.

Twenty Years’ Dream Visualizations from

Sleep Recorded Information

John M Corbett

A new science of images is emerging from computer science. Similar to the term “computational linguistics”, the term “computational visualistics” is proposed for addressing the domain of investigating pictures scientifically, using the computer. Visualistics have predominantly been dealt with in several other disciplines, like philosophy and psychology (mental imagery domain).

Wednesday 2:00-4:00

MR#2 Dreams & the

Arts Symposium

Pandemic Dream Art Deirdre Barrett

Dreams during the COVID-19 pandemic inspired much visual art. This presentation shows slides of sketches, paintings, and digital works from around the world and discusses the range of dreams they represent. Short films, especially animations, which lend themselves well to the length and imagery of dreams, will also be screened.

Using Self-Portraiture to Gain Insight into Severe Nightmares

Rebecca Damien

This presentation will look at self-portraiture as a useful way to gain insight into severe nightmares or severe bad dreams. Looking at Darcie Richardson’s theory that portraits are mirrors of the soul and Betty Edwards drawing techniques, I will show how self-portraiture can uncover the hidden meanings of severe nightmares.

A Dream Artist Discovers Virtual

Reality Sheila Asato

In 2019, Sheila became the Dream Artist-in-Residence at the REM5 Virtual Reality Lab. In partnership with her dreams, she has learned how to navigate this new medium and create art that has had a profound effect on her life: most notably, working through the sudden death of her father.

What if Your Unconscious Could

Make Art? Walter Berry

What if your unconscious could reach up through your dreams and make art? We will see and discuss examples of Surrealism, Art Brut, Outsider Art and the drawings of dreamers where unexpected images emerge from the deep unconscious and end up as compelling dynamic art.

MR#3 Arts &

Humanities Workshop

Dream Poetry: Painting with Words,

An Experiential Workshop

Marta Aarli

In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore the places between dreaming and waking, between visual and verbal, translating messages and images from our dreams into poems. We’ll tap into our whole being to express the language of our body, heart, senses, and soul, through structured play, to free ourselves creatively.


Dream to Freedom: Combining EFT with

Dreamwork

Robert Hoss & Kristen Hoss

The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or "tapping") is combined with dreamwork into one synergistic protocol for clinical and personal work. Scripted Gestalt role-play is used to identify emotional issues the dream and dreamer are dealing with, followed by an EFT protocol for reducing the emotional stress response brought on by that issue or memory. Bring a recent dream, if you have had one, to practice the protocol. Handout and worksheet included.

Wednesday 2:00-4:00 MR#5 Research

Workshop

The Construction and Analysis of

Metaphors in Co-Creative Dream

Theory

G. Scott Sparrow

Co-creative Dream Theory introduces a new perspective on dream metaphor. I will review the seminal contributions of Jung, Ullman, and Lakoff pertaining to the construction and analysis of dream imagery. Then I will examine specific principles and methods that will illuminate dimensions of dreamwork heretofore overlooked by traditional assumptions.

4:00-4:30 30 min Break

Wednesday 4:30-6:00

MR#1 Dreams &

Health Symposium

Dreaming as Emotional Immune

System Katherine Bell

Dreams are universal to humans. Animals also seem to experience dream-like interludes during sleep suggesting that dreams are evolutionarily important. I briefly share some personal dream experiences, then share results of published literature showing evidence that dreams, even when not remembered, are corrective and serve to enhance our emotional health.

Spiky Purple Medicine: Dreaming

of a Plant Spirit

Mary E. Gomes & Victoria

Brekelmans

This paper presents a series of two dreams experienced by the second author that appear to address a chronic health condition. The imagery in the dreams conveyed new information about her health and suggested a treatment with a specific plant, with imagery that is resonant of shamanic plant spirit medicine.

The Healing Power of Dreams: From Death

to Rebirth As The Wounded-Healer and

Dream-Shaman

Debbie Irvine

The Hero’s Journey (Jung, Campbell), as a monomyth, has a universal structure: calling, death, rebirth, and transformation. Irvine illustrates how dream series can follow this archetypal pattern, leading to transformation and healing. She maps and demonstrates how series of dreams from her life guided her through her own Hero’s Journey.

MR#2 Meet the Artists Panel

Visual Artists Panel: Artistic Processes of Working with Dreams

Julie Nauman-Mikulski (host) +12 exhibiting

artists

Each artist presents visuals of their work. Conference attendees will be provided the opportunity to gain an understanding of works in the exhibition narrated by some of the artist themselves.

MR#3 Dreams & The Arts Workshop

(22 limit)

Where Do Dreams Live in the Body? An

Artistic Movement Approach to Embodied

Dreamwork

Bess Park & Nancy

Huslage

This workshop explores embodiment as a bridge that deepens dreamwork by engaging the body through somatic approaches informed by arts-based experiential practices. Participants will be guided to access the wisdom of the body as a crucial, and often overlooked, step in bringing the contents of our unconscious into consciousness awareness.


Solution Oriented Dream Decoding; Problem Solving While We Sleep

Layne Dalfen

If we know how to tap into the resource of our dreams, anyone can gain insight and clarity about relationships, work, family, life. The workshop provides tools to decode and understand why we have certain dreams on a particular night and how that knowledge can enrich our lives.

Wednesday 4:30-6:00 MR#5 Dreamwork

Workshop

Tarotpy®: Finding Resilience and

Guidance for Life Challenges

Lauren Z. Schneider

Tarotpy®, like dreamwork, connects us to our inherent wholeness and resilience. Especially during challenging times such as a worldwide pandemic, social and political upheaval, and personal suffering, Tarotpy reinspires and indicates new pathways through hardship. Like dreaming, Tarotpy reveals that all experience, even death, is guided by intelligent and transcendent forces.

6:00-6:30 30 min Transition (6:20 Music on entry in MR#2s – Craig Webb)

Wednesday 6:30-7:30 MR#2s

Art Reception Artist Awards and Casual Reception

Julie Nauman-Mikulski (host)

The members of the IASD Visual Arts Committee will host the arts reception. This is an opportunity to meet with artists and art lovers in a social setting. Art works receiving special recognition, including the Peoples´ Choice, will be announced at this time.

Thurs 6/17


Thursday 8:00-9:00



Repeats daily. See Monday Schedule for Details on Morning Dream Groups and their Access Codes

9:00-9:30 30 min Break

Thursday 9:20– 11:30 MR#6

Special Multimedia

Event

9:20 Attendees may begin entering the waiting room for the Keynote 9:30 – 9:45 Brief Final Announcements and Keynote Introduction (Hoss)

9:45-11:30 Keynote: Keith Salmon To Walk In Beauty (film)

11:30-12:00 30 min Break

Thursday 12:00-1:00

MR#1 Research Panel The Neuroethics of Dream Tech

Courtney Sheehan,

Aleena Chia, Katja Valli

(moderator)

This talk draws from interviews and promotional texts in the emerging field of dream tech to provide an overview of the scientific and technical state of the art in dream enhancement, analysis, and recording, and to present an interdisciplinary framework for the neuroethical development of dream tech.

MR#2 Extraordinary

Dreams Symposium

“Intersection of Dreams and Life:

Mysteries of Synchronicity and

Spirits”

Dan Gilhooley

This presentation considers examples of the interplay of dreams and life involving several synchronicities. Shared intersubjective experiences appear to demonstrate a transpersonal non-local consciousness. Events involving apparent mind-matter interactions cause the author to ask, “Are spirits real?” The presentation concludes by questioning the role of mind in creating material reality.

Connecting in Dreams: Lessons from a Pandemic

Laurel Clark

The pandemic brought huge changes to all of us. What do we need to learn, individually and as a society, from this global experience? The presenter incubated dreams to guide her understanding, to discern some of her personal lessons and to make connections with friends even while being “socially distant.”

MR#3 Dreams & the Arts Film Event Infinity in a Dream

Jenniffer ClarOscura

Azarov

A Dreamer, while seeking answers to his existential questions in a Lucid Dream, encounters an ancient entity.

MR#4 Dreams & the Arts Workshop

From Pillow to Publication: Bringing the Boon Back to the

People

Donna Glee Williams

From the get-go, the bones of good art are baked into dreams: metaphor, imagery, emotional intensity, associative richness, mythic patterning, vividness. Participants in this workshop will explore—through writing, sharing, examining, and sculpting memories from their own dream life—how a writer translates dreams into fiction and poetry.


Coaching the Dream: an Ancient

Experience in a New Context

Will Sharon

Working with dreams in the coaching paradigm questions the concepts of interpretation, consciousness, how we listen to a dream as well as how and whether we should categorize dreams. This workshop will explore these ideas and demonstrate how they are used by using the dreams of the attendees.

1:00-1:30 30 min Break

Thursday 1:30-3:00

MR#1 Theory Symposium

Dreaming in the Digging Fields

Curtiss Hoffman

Archaeological excavations under my supervision at the Middleborough Little League Site provide much data about Native American activities. I have also recorded 350 dreams about the site. These are analyzed through several theoretical lenses. While some dreams confirm each perspective, no theory is able to explain all of them satisfactorily.

Dream to See Patterns Sue Llewellyn

What is a dream? I think dreams identify complex patterns in experience and portray these in dream images. We detect complex patterns in waking too, but thought is convergent and driven by more obvious associations; whereas, during dreaming, we spot less obvious associations because we think in a divergent way.

"Talking Hands, Moving Bodies";

Exploring Similarities between Sign-

Language and Dream Language

Roberta Latefa Mineo

We verbally speak our way through each day, yet every night we revert to the visual language of dreams. Find out what the researcher's dreams and pertinent literature had to say about the unique nature of embodied, visual language through a comparison of the language of dreams to ASL.

MR#2 Psi Symposium

The Dual Nature of Visitation Dreams


Visitation dreams are powerful and emotionally healing. As visitations they raise the possibility of an afterlife, but it is their dream quality that allows us to more fully engage with them. Using research, interviews with grief counsellors, and a personal visitation experience, I explore the dream aspect of visitation dreams.

The Serpent and the Lion: An Exploration of Place, Dreams,

and DNA

Linda Mastrangelo

In this presentation Linda Mastrangelo will be exploring a series of personal dreams that surprisingly connect with her family genealogy and ancient ancestral roots and with places of origin. Using psychology, myth, art, sacred geography as well as DNA testing, Mastrangelo makes symbolic connections between dreaming and place.

Serpents in Our Dreams

Dennis R. Archambault

Many people worldwide have serpents in their dreams. Serpents in dreams are a very powerful mythic symbol. A two-page "Legend of Serpent Dreams" is a handout that was developed in investigating my 231 serpent dreams, recorded over the last 43 years. Participants are encouraged to review their dreams prior to the convention.

Thursday 1:30-3:00

MR#3 Mental Imagery Workshop

The Waking Dream Incubation Workshop Janet Piedilato

The Waking Dream Incubation workshop focuses upon the waking incubation dream experience in service of seeking and receiving clarity and healing for a waking reality challenge. Participants are taught to enter the waking dream with the aid of shamanic drumming and chanting. Through dream imagery, they learn to interpret communication.


The 12 Stages of the Hero's Journey in

DreamWork

Kelly Sullivan Walden

Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey is a model outlining the 12 stages a hero encounters on his/her noble quest. The process of Dream Mastery is a hero’s journey, and the 12-stage map supports the dreamer to access greater power and perspective as they navigate their way through their dream life.

MR#5 Dreamwork Workshop Fluidity of Dreams Devi Prem

In this workshop, we will take the energy of significant parts of the dream and create poetry. The poem as the condensed version of the dream builds the base for a signature movement that can be shapeshifted by one’s soul’s direction to empower the dreamer.

3:00-3:30 30 min Break

Thursday 3:30- 5:30 MR#1

Dreams & the Arts

Symposium

Literature, Dreams and the Arts: Imagination and

Transformation in Simultaneous Time

Sharon Lynn Sieber

This presentation attempts to demonstrate the ways in which the dreamscape has become part of mainstream literature, from the Romantics to 20th century. Artistic images accompany the movement of surrealism, and are evocative of the greater reaches of the imagination and the subconscious as a source for artistic expression.

Music from DreamLand - A Dream~Artist +

Pscientist's Journey Craig Webb

Based on near-nightly dreams containing music as well as years of explorations as a dream-inspired composer, producer, semi-loose-id inner||outer scientist, and musical performing artist, the presenter will share dream-related insights, principles and a diverse medley of dreamt music and soundscapes.

Thursday 3:30- 5:30

MR#2 Psi Symposium

How Is It We Can Dream of the Future?

Speculating on the results of 18 Precognitive

Dream Contests

Cynthia Pearson

The Precognitive Dream Contests held at IASD’s Psiber Dreaming Conferences offer ample evidence that we can dream the future, but don’t explain how that is possible. In this presentation we will illuminate the question by exploring recent research and provocative perspectives such as field consciousness, "premory" and simultaneous time.

Correspondences Between Dream

Narratives & Societal Events: A Transpersonal Interpretive Framework

Shanee Stepakoff

This presentation provides compelling evidence of dreams that reflected events in the dreamer’s community, society, and world before these events were publicly reported. This evidence points to the need for a transpersonal interpretive framework that views dreams as indicative of species-connectedness and potentially beneficial for society as a whole.

Experiencing Art and the Future News in

Precognitive Dreams Dale E. Graff

This presentation reviews spontaneous dreams and experimental precognitive dream projects; examines the correlation between dream imagery and future events; evaluates how dreams illustrate visionary art principles and cognitive processes; discusses retrocausation and ATP (Associative Target Picture) protocol for event predictions. Guidelines for precognitive dream proficiency are provided.

A Critical Investigation into Precognitive

Dreams: Dreamscaping without My Timekeeper

Paul Kiritsis

This lecture examines precognitive dream experiences, offering comprehensive information pertaining to their history, phenomenology, potential neural underpinnings, and implications for consciousness and the philosophical theories of determinism and nondeterminism. A useful exposition for clinicians, researchers, and laypersons hoping to gain insight into a sublime, age-old phenomenon.

MR#3

Open Reading: Dreams &

Poetry

Open Reading: Dreams Bernard Welt

& Loren Goodman

First hour: Dreams co-hosted by Bernard Welt and Loren Goodman. Participants read one dream in any format they choose, as long as they share an authentic dream experience and stick to the 3-minute time limit. The dream speaks for itself. No introduction; no explanation; no comments. (anyone wishing to read will be chosen on a first come basis as they enter the session)

Open Reading: Poetry Marta Aarli & Asha Sahni

Second hour: Poetry co-hosted by Marta Aarli and Asha Sahni. Participants read one poem, or a few short ones, in any format they choose, as long as it is their own original dream poetry and stick to the 3-minute time limit. The poems speak for themselves. No introduction; no explanation; no comments. (anyone wishing to read will be chosen on a first come basis as they enter the session)

Thursday 3:30- 5:30

MR#4

Arts & Humanities Workshop (20 limit)

How to Make Change in the World: Can

Dreams Help? Tina Tau

This workshop draws on the intelligence of two big dreams about social change. Sharing of the dreams will be followed by a guided meditation, a journaling exercise, group discussion and an art activity. These particular dreams invite us to experience awe, love and possibility in the face of overwhelming odds.

MR#5 Dreamwork Workshop Dreams of Trees Christopher

Sowton

Dreams of trees often seem to have a powerful and special quality, saying something about what it feels like for us to exist on this earth. Dr Sowton will present several tree dreams from his naturopathic practice, and then give participants a chance to share and discuss.

5:30-6:00 30 min Break and Costume Preparation

6:00-8:00 Zoom Link

Virtual Costume Parade and Dream Ball Walter Berry (host)

Don a costume and share the dream figure in your dream it came from and then dance in this two-hour event. The costume parade will be followed by a LIVE band -Ed Mays Groove Kitchen- Hosted by Walter Berry- The Wizard of Awes. Gonna be a blast!

6:00 - 7:00 Costume Parade 7:00 - 8:00 Virtual Dream Ball with Live Band

“Groove Kitchen”

THE VIRTUAL DREAM BALL

After days and days of cerebral activity and learning on Zoom screens, it is time to jump inside our dreams and lose ourselves in the catharsis of dance and music. And although we will be physically separate, grab a partner at home and dance with the music of Ed Mays Groove Kitchen— a Seattle based red hot dance band made up of some the finest musicians in the Pacific Northwest area. This band will rock your soul. Check them out at — https://www.groovekitchenband.com/music.html or just join us all virtually as we dance in front of the camera while chatting to each other using the Zoom Chat function. We will also hold our customary costume parade before the ball, where you dress up as a character from one of your dreams and have a chance to BRIEFLY tell the dream the costume came from. What will a virtual costume parade and dream ball be like on Zoom you ask? Whether you wish to enter the parade or just attend in costume, you can dress in a costume or mask. The Zoom “video filter” function even gives you the option of wearing a virtual mask. Also, traditionally DreamTime magazine runs a photo spread of conference activities in its Fall issue, with about half of the photos coming from conference attendees going to the Dream Ball dressed as their favorite dream characters. If you are planning to go in costume to this year’s virtual Dream Ball, we invite you to snap a selfie and send it via e-mail (jpg attachment please) to DreamTime editor Jean Campbell at [email protected] for possible use in the Fall issue of DreamTime. All photos must be received by August 15, 2021. Give us your best shot!

https://www.groovekitchenband.com/music.html

mailto:[email protected]

PLEASE NOTE: Cultural Appreciation

If your dreams are diversely populated, that’s a beautiful thing. However, IASD members sharing the virtual dance floor will appreciate your awareness that cultural and/or racial appropriation is harmful to other members in waking life. The IASD Principles of Community statement says we value “Diversity: A constructive educational environment for participants at conferences and other activities, that welcomes the multiplicity of different approaches to dream studies, and strives to create an open, inclusive atmosphere of mutual respect.” We hope you enjoy exploring the multiplicity of creative possibilities for dream costumes that won’t offend other members. Here’s some valuable information that might help you decide what not to wear: https://www.ohio.edu/orgs/stars/Poster_Campaign.html also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMhKooYOQrM

https://www.ohio.edu/orgs/stars/Poster_Campaign.html

https://www.ohio.edu/orgs/stars/Poster_Campaign.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMhKooYOQrM

2021 International IASD Virtual Conference Program

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