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 Zoom Type Title of Session Presenters Summary 6/13 Room 8:00-9:00 MR TBD Staff Orientation Session Track Managers and Volunteers to attend 9:20 attendees should begin entering the waiting room for the Opening Keynote 9:30-10:00 Welcome and Announcements (Angel Morgan & Bob Hoss) 9:20- Keynote MR#6 10:00–11:30 Keynote: Fanny Brewster 11:30 w/live Q&A : Letting My Heart Be Broken (Angel Morgan introduction) 11:30–12:00 30 min Break SUNDAY OPENING SESSIONS Although people are often quick to describe their dreams, most are reticent about their bad dreams and . Bad Dreams and Why do we have bad dreams and nightmares, what effect do Invited Nightmares: Michael they have, and what can be done about them? This MR#1 Research Causes, Nadorff presentation will address these questions through blending Presentation Correlates, and both old and new literature, as well as presenting some Interventions original data, to gain a better understanding of what makes these dreams different. Light in lucid dreams will be viewed broadly. We discuss the Sunday Lucid Dreaming: use of the Waking Technique when working with a 12:00-1:30 Therapy as a Robert Lucidity client’s lucid dreams. This can ultimately lead from the MR#2 Catalyst to Waggoner & Symposium dissolution of the subject/object split in the client’s psyche to Experience Clear Nigel Hamilton their seeing the illusory nature of their mental projections and Mind, Inner light experiencing a spiritual awakening. Working as a dream-arts group in the time of the COVID-19 Lana Nasser, pandemic is a challenge that the Dream Mapping Project will Dreams & Arts Into the Dream Alisa overcome by turning our performance-based work into a MR#3 Symposium Navel Minyukova, spoken word soundscape meditation for conference Kelly Bulkeley attendees to experience virtually. Discussion with DMP artists will follow this dream-inspired sound art journey. Yoga Nidra is a sleep-based meditation. Body, breath, and Dream/ Yoga Nidra: awareness techniques merge to support states of expanded Meditation An Effortless Kimberly R. awareness and relaxation. Here, in between sleeping and MR#4 Workhshop Sleep -based Mascaro waking, we can restore balance and feel rejuvenated. Come (14 limit) Meditation experience the art and practice of this non-doing state of being. No previous experience necessary. 1:30 –2:00 30 min Break OPENING RECEPTIONS Research reception is a casual gathering of researchers and research committee members of IASD. It is open to all researchers Katja Valli & Research Researcher and anyone interested in empirical, methodological, theoretical and MR#1 Michelle Carr Reception Gathering conceptual aspects of dream research. Join us in this informal (co-hosts) networking event to catch up with colleagues and to make new connections. Come one, come all! Join us in the Opening Reception to touch 1:45 Music on General Angel base and connect in the IASD Community. What do you love about Entry (C. Webb) MR#2s Opening Morgan IASD? Miss about IASD? Want for IASD? Together we will share Reception Open Sunday Reception (host) many blessings for IASD, celebrating the close of the first day of to All 2:00-3:30 IASD’s Virtual Conference. Jeanne Van Bronkhorst will be hosting this reception room for Regional Regional Jeanne Van current or interested Regional Representatives. This will be a time MR#3s Rep Representative Bronkhorst to meet other Reps, trade stories and ideas, reconnect with Reception Gathering (host) friends, or find out more about what a Regional Rep can do in the IASD. We are excited to greet the first timers experiencing their first IASD Gathering of Geoff Nelson conference. Come and find out how to get the most out of your First Timer those New to and Marcia MR#4s conference experience. Also, find the answers to any lingering Reception IASD Emery (co- questions you might have. We would love to hear what attracted Conferences hosts) you to dream work as well as how you are using your dreams.

Mon Zoom Title of Type Presenters Summary 6/14 Room Session Morning We will explore the ways in which intuitive perception can help in Developing the Dream Curtiss group dreamwork, following the Ullman technique as modified by MDG1 Intuition in Group Group 1 Hoffman Taylor along with Jungian amplification methods. Dreamwork (24 limit) Morning Methods of interpretation will be the Group Projective method, Dream Group Projective Helen Dream Interview, Gestalt, Dream Theater, the Bob Hoss color MDG 2 Monday Group 2 Method Landerman questionnaire, and art materials to draw or paint the dream. 8:00-9:00 (24 limit) Why try to be lucid? Many dreams obviously involve higher Morning dimensions and beckon us towards enlightenment. Co-creative Spirituality and Dream theory tells us that dreams want to suggest better waking-life MDG 3 Lucidity Dream David Low Group 3 choices by pointing out existing, dysfunctional patterns in our lives. Group (24 limit) Taylor/Ullman and Sparrow 5-Star methodologies will help us discern these messages and shift in more positive directions.

Dreams speak a global language that transcends ethnic differences, traditions and geographical borders. Share dreams Morning The Universal from a variety of perspectives that invite creative conversations Dream Victoria MDG 4 Language of from the communal richness of participants’ diverse backgrounds. Group 4 Rabinowe Dreams Dream Mentor Victoria Rabinowe will create a model for an (24 limit) international dream community in atmosphere of respectful curiosity. A space for Spanish-speaking dreamers who may feel more Morning comfortable exploring their dreams in this language. In these Dream Dream Integration Jordi Borràs- meetings we'll have the opportunity to explore your dreams with MDG 5 Group 5 (en Español) García different creative techniques and also to share them, taking into (12 limit) account the projections of other dreamers. Addressed to all kinds of participants. Morning With this approach, the dreamer is stimulated by open-ended Dream Listening to the Michael questions to reflect on the dream experience and its relationships MDG 6 Monday Group 6 Dreamer Schredl to waking life. Suggestions, interpretations, etc. from group 8:00-9:00 (16 limit) members are discouraged. First-timers This morning workshop for first-timers at the IASD conference Morning Morning Dream Loren provides participants with a home base to share and reflect upon Dream MDG 7 Group: Welcome Goodman & new knowledge and insights gained during the conference, and Group 7 to the World of Bernard Welt introduces time-tested practices for recalling and recording (18 limit) Your Dreams dreams; exploring them in your dream journal and with others. The Waking Dream Process is a way of revisiting, exploring and Morning expanding the experience of a dream for therapeutic benefit. Dream The Waking MDG 8 Dave Billington Each morning a member's dream will be presented, briefly Group 8 Dream Process discussed in the group, and then explored using the Waking (10 limit) Dream Technique, facilitated by Dave Billington. Experiential We will explore the proposition that dreams are part of the natural Morning Dreamwork: emotional immune system and don’t need to be interpreted. We Dream MDG 9 Enhancing the Katherine Bell will explore and deepen our trust in our dream feelings by slowing Group 9 Emotional down the images, using breath and sometimes using embodiment (24 limit) Immune System or role play. Indigenous Dreamwork is a holistic, collective, participatory Dream Apela process through which participants explore narratives emerging To be held Group 10 Indigenous Colorado, Beth from shared dreams. Keeping with principles of Indigenous Mind, 1-2pm DG 10 (20 limit) Dreamwork Duncan & we deeply listen (no analyzing), scribe and glyph dream imagery, Each Day In afternoon Ryan Hurd and then explore the collective themes and ancestral messages, 1-2 pm particularly important during these times.

9:00 – 9:30 30 min Break 9:20 Attendees can enter waiting room Monday Keynote 9:30 – 11:30 Keynote: Eduardo Duran MR#6 9:20-11:30 w/live Q&A Dream Entity Bringing Form from the Blackworld to the Plantworld (introduction by Angel Morgan) 11:30-12:00 30 min Break Each presenter will look at healing in lucidity from a psycho- Melinda Powell spiritual perspective. Powell will discuss the healing of Lucidity Psycho-spiritual (Chair), memory in relation to the lucid void. Greig will describe the MR#1 Symposium Healing in Lucidity Diane Greig & healing properties of light in relation to the cultural Shadow. Nigel Hamilton Hamilton will describe the influence of lucid dreaming on therapeutic outcomes. The Roots of all family systems stem from our primordial African past. These developed over time into extended familial Extended Family Edward Bruce networks, with the loom of dreams being one of the threads of Networks and Bynum this interconnectedness. This system has 5 levels, including Dreams our remote ancestors and our future progeny in an active way.

African spiritual practices are coded and modified throughout Bruce Bynum Ancestral Healing varied processes and may be utilized as a holistic approach to Monday Ethnicity & Orisade MR#2 and Dreams redirect the thought process and and motivate physical, 12:00-1:30 Symposium Awodola mental and spiritual healing through Ancestral Healing. Deepening the Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous methodologies are two Research & frameworks that can provide the appropriate containers to Scholarship of assist with the development and expansion of research on Alaya A. Ancestral ancestral dreaming and ways it can be used to enhance the Dannu Dreaming, Cultural scholarship process. Memory, & Cultural Continuity Haiku – short, structured poems of Japanese origin – can Dream Haiku – mine rich seams in dreams, offering clarity and focus. They Arts & Surfing the Edge can sometimes unearth kernels of truth which are just beyond MR#3 Humanities Asha Sahni between Sleeping conscious understanding. We will explore a dream/dreams Workshop and Waking through a series of exercises, each writing and sharing several dream haiku

Understanding and exploring children’s nightmares may Understanding and enhance communication and treatment, soothe traumatic Exploring anxieties linked to Covid-19, social media, bullying, divorce, Children’s trauma, depression, etc. Dream sharing may stimulate Clinical MR#4 Nightmares: Alan Siegel creativity and alert parents and therapists to distress. The Workshop Clinical, Cultural, presentation will include exercises, discussion, and guidelines Monday and Creative for mental health professionals, dreamworkers, and parents, 12:00-1:30 Perspectives as well as themes, interventions, cultural, and creative dimensions. Sensing the Signs is an experiential offering using somatic resonance and release techniques to facilitate a deeper connection Susan Deamwork Sensing the Signs to the symbols/signs that manifest in dreams and daily life. Ackerman MR#5 Participants will have an opportunity to work with their own material Workshop (that Guide Us) Joseph in this workshop that includes breathwork, gentle movement, and sound. 1:30-2:00 30 min Break The continuity hypothesis of dreaming postulates that dreams Does global reflect waking life. A long dream series recorded between warming affect Michael 1984 and 2015 (30 years) including 11,808 dreams showed dream content? Schredl that “cold” elements like snow, ice, and hail occurred less Analyzing a 30-yr. often over time and, thus, indicates that dreams might provide dream series clues regarding global changes. Dreams of the According to the hypothesis attributing a role to dreaming in Deceased: emotional regulation, one would expect a link between dreams Evolution of and the mourning process. In recently bereaved persons, over Aurélien de la Content and a 1-year period, we collect dreams and questionnaires on the Chapelle Frequency During mourning process to test whether these measures are related. Research the First Year of Monday Hot off the Bereavement MR#1 2:00- 4:00 Press The phenomenon of dreaming about the laboratory–when participating in a sleep study–is common, yet often Session #1 Dreaming of the Claudia overlooked. Here, we investigated those lab reactivations from sleep lab: a large Picard-Deland a large database of dreams collected from laboratory studies database study to investigate their phenomenological characteristics along with various trait and state factors underlying their occurrence. We present new findings addressing the relationship between Associations dreaming and daydreaming, further documenting continuity between dream between dreaming, daydreaming and waking processes. We recall frequency, Louis-Philippe gathered data from participants’ spontaneous thought nightmare severity Marquis processes while they undergone an MRI scan. Interestingly, and daydreaming dream and nightmare variables were associated with different characteristics daydreaming characteristics.

Nightmare Nightmare proneness, a trait-like disposition to experience Proneness and William E. frequent nightmares, has been found to account for nightmare Psychological Kelly & Sarah frequency outside of general distress, neuroticism, and trauma Boundaries as Rhodes symptoms. The current study utilized a student sample to Predictors of investigate the separate contributions of nightmare proneness Nightmare and Hartmann’s concept of “thin” boundaries in predicting Frequency nightmare frequency. Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy incorporates the writing down, and rescripting, of a trauma survivor’s most Post-trauma distressing nightmare. The current study established significant nightmares Caitlin Paquet relationships between the language used in nightmares and Research language use and their re-scriptions within cognitive and emotional domains and Hot off the nightmare severity Monday nightmare severity, when controlling for PTSD and depression MR#1 Press 2:00- 4:00 symptom severity. Session #1 Preliminary data shows increased lucidity, reflectiveness, fear, (Continued) Testing an Integrated Protocol Remington conflict, and negative emotions in dreams (over galantamine or for the Treatment of Mallett placebo conditions alone) as a result of the integrated protocol & Gregory (Middle of the Night Meditation/ Nightmare Nightmares and Scott Sparrow Reliving/galantamine), which supports the hypothesis that the Other PTSD- protocol may establish conditions for exposure and resolution Related Symptoms of nightmare content. Many if not most people tend to gesture when speaking in Do We Gesture waking life. It would seem natural, then, if when we speak in While Speaking in Daniel Oldis dreams (as research has shown), that we, our dream egos, Dreams? also gesture while talking. Electromyography (EMG) gathered from the Univ. of Texas in 2016 supports this idea. Edward Bruce We will share perspectives on the diverse role dreams play in The Science of Bynum (Mod), the many African American traditions and beliefs concerning Dreams and Fanny the clinical, spiritual, ancestral and Jungian dimensions of Ethnicity MR#2 Dreaming in the Brewster, dreaming. Panel African American Orisade Traditions Awodola, Monday Alaya Dannu 2:00-4:00 Through dreams we can discover ourselves as spiritual beings, receive inner guidance and messages that uplift our How to use our Spiritual Claude consciousness and free ourselves from the limitations of the MR#3 dreams for spiritual Workshop Couture human condition. What are spiritual dreams and what kind of growth. experiences can we expect from them? How may we cultivate them? I present a personal viewpoint. Participants will explore step-by-step processes of organizing and leading dream groups. They will develop a template for Dreamwork Leading Innovative their group -- focusing on creating the group, agendas, MR#4 Workshop and Successful Justina Lasley guidelines, problem solving, and mentoring personal (23 limit) Dream Groups transformation. Participants, while focusing on individual goals, Monday will learn innovative and successful techniques by working in a 2:00- 4:00 dream group. You will be surprised how much pours out of the unconscious by making a simple sketch of a dream and then working with it. Dreamwork Drawing From the MR#5 Walter E Berry Join us in this lively, dynamic approach to experiencing dreams Workshop Unconscious through the visual. Humor and depth are the earmarks of this workshop. Don’t miss it. 4:00-4:30 30 min Break Such stuff as lucid The difference between lucid and non-lucid dreams was dreams are made explored using text analytics. We reveal that, in a large dataset Remington on: Characterizing of online dream reports, lucid dreams are less negative, more Mallett lucid dream perceptual, and less social than non-lucid dreams.

phenomenology using big data Effectiveness of The top three impediments to academic success self-reported Lucid Dreaming by 2,149 college students were stress, anxiety, and sleep difficulties according to the National College Health and Sleep Hygiene Pat Precin Assessment of 2018. This poster will present the results of a Techniques to 12-week lucid dreaming, sleep hygiene, and stress Reduce Stress in management intervention to reduce stress in graduate Research Graduate Students students. Monday Hot off the We will present an empirical study on dream images during MR#1 Press Dream Images Luiza covid-19 pandemic. The aim is to understand how the social 4:30 – 6:30 Session #2 during Covid-19 Bontempo restrictions and the pandemic is affecting dreamers and dream Pandemic e Silva images of adults and emerging adults in México. The study is being finished, so the results are not conclusive yet. Dreaming is a highly visual experience, imbued with emotion

Dreamdrawing for and strongly associated with the consolidation of memory. This Sophie emotional memory presentation proposes the use of dreamdrawing for the Boudrias reconsolidation of emotional memory, as a complement to the reconsolidation dream narrative. The dream work refers to a cognitive process through which distressing thoughts and affects are cognitively distorted during A Questionnaire to William E. dreams to lessen their effects and protect sleep. The current Measure the Kelly & Elida study reports the development and investigation of a measure Dream Work Stewart intended to assess the dream work. Findings and conclusions are presented.

Freud’s determination to demonstrate Oedipal conflicts and Dora Contra Freud: inaccurate English translation of Dora’s dreams by Strachey Enabling Dora to Jerry L. have distorted Dora's original dream narrative. By applying the Jennings “dreams without disguise” methodology and details of the real Research Interpret Her Own historical Dora, we see how Dora could have more directly Hot off the Dreams Monday understood the meaning of her own dreams. Press I explore lucid dreaming in The Back Room, a novel by 4:30 – 6:30 Session #2 “Lucid dreaming in Carmen Martín Gaite that reflects on the writing process and (continued) Martín Gaite’s on life under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. My study Olga Colbert illuminates the text by placing it under the lens of scientific novel The Back Room” research on dreaming and other altered states of consciousness. In Book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas’s dream is equated to a Virgil's Aeneid and false dream. Building on the work of Tarrant and others, this Aeneas' False Daniel Harris- presentation uses a Platonic explanation of false dreams as Dream of Ancient McCoy wish-fulfillments to explain the contrasting presentations of Rome Roman history found in the Underworld and Shield episodes of the Aeneid. Spiritual "Big Shinran is one of the most famous Buddhist priests in Monday Dreams" in Japan: Japanese history, the founder of Jodo-Shinshu sect. However, Cultural Dreams that Set Misa Tsuruta his "Big Dreams" are less known to the public. In this 4:30 – 6:30 MR#2 Symposium Shinran on the presentation, his three big dreams will be introduced and Path as a Buddhist discussed, along with his life and career as a Buddhist. Dreams Behind the We explore how dreams have brought musical, lyrical, Music: Dreaming production and collaboration ideas for composers, folk and Classical, Popular popular artists, as well as musical calling/healing dreams for & Folk Artists, Craig Webb shamans worldwide. Also revealed will be premonition and Instrumentalists, visitation dreams of various artists, plus a mini-medley of Musical Shamans melodies inspired by little-known dreams, including the & Others presenter’s. This presentation discusses dream narrative from four The Aesthetics of dimensions: the ambiguities in characters’ identities and the Dream Narrative in board line of waking and dreaming, the grotesque in body Yue Wang the 19th British transformations and logic thinking, the poetic existence in Novels dream images and the strong and real emotion of characters’ dream narrative to reveal its aesthetic values.

Transpose dreams of the night into poetry and prose with inventive methods that explore symbols, metaphors, paradoxes Dreams & The Language of from shifting perspectives. Provocative writing prompts the Victoria MR#3 The Arts Dreams: Poetry of unraveling of the riddles of the night and guides participants to Rabinowe Workshop the Soul write with passionate insight. The creative potential of DreamWriting is an unlimited source of inspiration for . Combining Art Therapy Dreamwork and her expertise on Somatic art therapy, in this workshop Dr. Johanne Hamel Monday Clinical Somatic Art Johanne offers an original way to work on dreams through bodily dream 4:30 – 6:30 MR#4 Workshop Therapy Hamel sensation. She will briefly explain her 4-Quadrants art therapy (12 limit) Dreamwork method and guide participants’ experimentation with their own dreams. Dreams can be seen as a stage where various parts or aspects of ourselves are manifested, representing our inner world. Dreamwork Dreams: Theater of Heloisa MR#5 Workshop participants will learn how to interact with dream Workshop Our Inner World Garman images, obtaining insight into their feelings, belief systems and their patterns of interaction. 6:30-7:00 30 min Break Try your Psi! Test your dreaming mind's ability to tune into a visual target that will be broadcast telepathically during the Dream night by a designated 'sender.' Loosely patterned on the Monday Robert Waggoner & MR#1 Telepathy Maimonides Dream Laboratory experiments by Drs. Krippner Cynnie Pearson (hosts) 7:00-8:00 Contest 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.

Summary Tues Zoom Type Title of Session Presenters 6/15 Room Personal Morning Tuesday Repeat daily. Meeting Dream See Monday Schedule for Details on Morning Dream Groups and their Access Codes 8:00-9:00 Rooms Groups 9:00-9:30 30 min Break 9:20 Attendees may begin entering the waiting room Tuesday Keynote 9:30-11:30 Keynote: Tore Nielsen MR#6 9:20–11:30 w/live Q&A The Case of Sleep Onset Dreaming (Katja Valli introduction) 11:30-12:00 30 min Break A survey of 12,000+ pandemic dreams was analyzed by: 1) a Deirdre qualitative reading for literal and metaphoric themes, 2) a Survey of Barrett, Sanja comparison with normal era dreams utilizing Linguistic Inquiry Pandemic Dreams Šćepanović, & and Word Count, and 3) a deep-learning method identifying Luca Maria symptoms and emotions in dreams vs. waking conversations Aiello about COVID-19. Did COVID-19 We investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Pandemic Increase threatening dream content in a systematic two-week dream Threatening Events diary sample collected during lock-down from 91 Finnish Ville Loukola Research & Threats Related participants, expecting that the pandemic would increase the to Diseases in number of threats in dreams, and especially threats related to Tuesday Symposium MR#1 Threat and Dreams? diseases and illnesses. 12:00-2:00 Crisis This presentation reports the findings of four large surveys Dreaming about sleep and dreams from various points in 2020 (April, May, June, October) (Total N >15K). Participants answered Crisis Dreaming in Kelly Bulkeley questions about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives 2020 Matter movement, and the US Presidential election. Implications for caregiving practice and dream theory are discussed. Nightmare Distress, In addition to nightmare frequency, certain beliefs about Frequency, and Michael nightmares increase distress due to nightmares. Treatment Beliefs about Schredl programs should include psycho-education in addition to Nightmares techniques reducing nightmare frequency.

In dreams, we often find ourselves in defined locations. Many Oh, the Places are familiar places, which tends to confirm the Continuity You’ll Go! Curtiss Hypothesis. But sometimes we dream into locations which Exploring Dream Hoffman we’ve never visited. Some of our dreams allow us to enter into Geography “othermind”: the experience of other selves accessible through the dream state. Taking Dream Social Dream Drawing, a method for working with dreams in Work Online in the groups and developed by Dr. Rose Merksy, has previously Times of Rose Mersky & been an in-person-only method. In 2020 it has been adapted Corona: Group Anton for online, not only with dreamers, but also to train facilitators. Dreamwork Dynamics and Zemlyanoy However, online facilitation brings with it unforeseen Symposium Voyeuristic peculiarities and difficulties. Dreams of MR#2 Tendencies the Past; A Layman’s The speaker will walk the audience through his methodology Methods for Interpretation of for recording/recollecting dreams, and his lay interpretation of the Present Vivid Dreams and Joshua Suri what his dreams mean to him and how they reflect his past life How They Affect and impact his current living. The focus will be on 3 – 4 very His Life vivid, powerful, detailed dreams. An enhanced approach to Dr. Garfield’s way to “the most complete recall [of dreams] with the least effort” is presented. Remember and Dr. Patricia Garfield, PhD., is an IASD Founder and author of Tuesday G. Nathan Understand the bestseller, “Creative Dreaming”. The enhancement, My 12:00-2:00 Feinstein Dreams Insightfully 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. An Ullman Dream and the audience will discuss a dream with the Discussion with dream-sharer, and Julia Lockheart will create a painting of the Arts & Mark Blagrove Artwork Produced dream. Previous artworks can be seen at http://DreamsID.com. MR#3 Humanities & Julia so as to Revisit the An enlarged print of the artwork will be sent to the dreamer Workshop Lockheart Dream with Friends afterwards to aid revisiting the dream with friends and family. and Family The inner child dreams are the dreams where the child within Healing the Inner tries to express itself. Childhood traumas, repressed anger, Dreamwork Kiran MR#4 Child through sadness, fear, shame are expressed in dream symbols and Workshop Anumalasetty Dreams language. Understanding the inner child dreams help us heal, embrace and welcome the inner child back into our lives. This experiential workshop explores the unseen thread that Parts of the Whole connects us. Inviting a group dream, participants will respond Dreamwork - Dreams as with their own dream symbol. Using creative exercises to MR#5 Workshop Fiona Bell Interconnected embody the energy of the dream symbol, we will reflect on how (12 limit) Consciousness expression of this unique aspect of ourselves contributes to the greater whole.

2:00-2:30 30 min Break The results of a new study on dreams and nightmares among survivors of intimate partner violence will be presented. A New Lens on Alwin E. Participants will learn of five types of dreams and nightmares, Dreams and Wagener their relationship to PTSD and insomnia among survivors of Nightmares intimate partner violence, and how these findings may inform Tuesday Research counseling and psychotherapy. MR#1 2:30-4:00 Symposium PTSD Nightmare A comparative content analysis is presented for a single case Content: study of a Vietnam Vet with PTSD, comparing content of 45 Comparative Study years of the post-combat recorded nightmares and dreams Robert Hoss of a Vietnam Vet across 4 recording periods suggestive of 4 recovery stages. with 45 Years of Content profile is also compared with norms and other combat- Dream Records related PTSD studies. Imagery Within the Alixandra Alixandra Summitt’s imagery inspires women’s empowerment. Dreamtime Dreams Summitt She will show artwork derived from her dreamtime dreams on to Empower Women (Chair) the theme of women’s empowerment. Imagery Denise Kester provides dream tools for accessing deeper Panel: regions of our inner consciousness for children of all ages. Drawing from the Living the Denise will discuss and reveal the important relationship Dream: Art Dreams MR#2 Dream That Denise Kester between dream work and artwork. She will share art and Life, An Artist’s Every Child stories illustrating the importance of tapping the resources Perspective Is a Work of available to all who wish to have a deeper understanding of the Art interconnected relationship between Art, Dreams, & Life. Melissa Parks teaches children to make artwork based on their Every Child Is a Melissa Parks dreamtime dreams and emboldens empathy for children in Work of Art foster care. Dreamers will re-evaluate dreams which are either mysterious Tuesday Avoiding Premature or might be worked further. In small groups we will ask often 2:30-4:00 Dreamwork Closure: MR#3 David Low overlooked questions about the dream, about the life context it Workshop Reconsidering Your might help us with, and we will attune to feelings which may be Dream's Meaning the greatest asset to growth and understanding. When we truly enter our living dream experiences, we are Dream Surfing: changed an is the dream. Participants will learn, witness and Clinical Embodied fluidity of MR#4 Leslie Ellis experience embodied dreamwork practices that allow you to Workshop experiential surf your dream world while awake, inviting your dreams to dreamwork play forward with your active, imaginative participation. This workshop encourages participants to approach dreams as Arts & Serious Play: a rich and abundant source for literary artistic production both Humanities Loren MR#5 Surrealist Dream in verse and prose. In it, we will experiment primarily with the Workshop Goodman Writing Workshop collaborative, collage-like Surrealist technique known as the (20 limit) “exquisite corpse."

4:00-4:30 30 min Break Dreams & the Arts The Dark Magic of Symposium A Midsummer Night’s Dream moves, delights, and baffles A Midsummer Night’s Kelly Bulkeley What’s in the us—just like an actual dream. This presentation uncovers Dream Dream? A the mysteries of the play: its mythic and archetypal MR#1 Midsummer’s View resonance, its celebration of the power of imagination, its The Dream from of Shakespeare’s foundation in Renaissance dream theory, and the reasons it Shakespeare’s Time Bernard Welt Play of Dreams remains enchanting for contemporary audiences. to Ours and Dreamers A Comparison of the This presentation is based on a survey that was Experiences of Lucid administered to three advanced lucid dreamers, each of Dreamers Using Gregory Scott whom has used galantamine as a way to induce lengthy Galantamine to Sparrow and stable experiences from the waking state. The Induce WILD Lucid questionnaire was administered blindly, such that the Research Dreams responses were not known to each other. MR#2 Symposium Differentiating This study tested inconsistencies between dreams and Dream States Dreams from waking life using the automatic content analysis technique Wakefulness by Xiaofang by LIWC. Furthermore, we built SVM models to precisely Automatic Content Zheng detect binary characteristics of dreams, and here it was Tuesday Analysis and Support investigated whether a text described waking life or dreams, 4:30-5:30 Vector Machines based on the word frequencies of various categories. This presentation will focus on structures and techniques for Leading Dream Dreamwork Azima Lila leading dream groups, both in person and via the Internet. It MR#3 Groups in Person and Workshop Forest will include material on the format used for each dream on the Internet session and the process used in working with each dream. Distressing nightmares frequently follow recent and PTSDreams: historical traumatic events. This workshop examines how Transform Nightmares public trauma such as pandemics or trans-generational to Healing with the Linda Yael MR#4 Clinical Workshop trauma, and private trauma such as abuse, is expressed in GAIA Method Schiller dreams both symbolically and as "memory bursts" of (Guided Active previously dissociated memory and offers methods for Imagination Approach) resolution and healing. Everyone wants a fulfilling life, yet we have lessons to learn Life-Altering Dreams, along the way, and "fulfilling" is open for interpretation. The Lucid Dreams, workshop will encourage respectful dreamsharing, including MR#5 Psi Workshop Premonitions & other Craig Webb lucid, precognitive, and other dreams and subjective Inner<>Outer experiences, exploring how they can act as a valuable inner Catalysts GPS along our richest soul path.

5:30-6:00 30 min Break General Membership Meeting Including the Outgoing Presidential Address & Incoming Presidential Address Tuesday One of the primary purposes of our annual conferences is to hold the annual IASD Membership Meeting. This meeting MR#1 6:00-7:30 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 This short experimental film, set in India & Death Valley, Tuesday Parallel Gems Link Psi Film Event California (30 min), explores the relationship between Bhaskar Banerji 7:45-8:30 dreams, parallel worlds and psychic phenomenon.

Wed Zoom Type Title of Session Presenters Summary 6/16 Room Personal Wednesday Morning Dream Repeats daily. Meeting Groups See Monday Schedule for Details on Morning Dream Groups and their Access Codes 8:00-9:00 Rooms 9:00-9:30 30 min Break In this diary study with 425 students, partner dreams were Partners and Ex- more common than ex-partner dreams. Although the Michael partners in Dreams: A interactions with ex-partners were more negatively toned Schredl Diary Study than interactions with the partner, the ex-partner interactions also included more positive emotions. We tested the Sociality Bias hypothesis, the Strengthening Effects of Social hypothesis and the Compensation hypothesis of the Social Seclusion on Social Katja Valli Simulation theory by investigating the effects of social Dream Content seclusion on the number and quality of social dream content while controlling for social interactions during wakefulness. Research Wednesday Dream and Previous work shows that dream-sharing and discussion of MR#1 Symposium Discussion Variable dreams following the Ullman method increases the empathy 9:30-11:30 Social Contexts Moderators of the of the discusser towards the dream-sharer. This study Mark Blagrove Effect of Dream- investigates the moderating influence of the length of the Sharing on State dream in words, the length of the discussion, and the Empathy number of discussions, on the empathy effect. In 1974 I published a content analysis of nighttime dreams reported by 10 males who identified as female, no more Thirty Dreams from Stanley than 3 dreams per participant. These dream reports Transgender Males in Krippner contained 12 instances where there were significantly fewer Retrospect mentions than from normative males and 7 where there were more mentions than from normative females.

Dreams, Creativity, Angel Morgan and the Arts (Chair) Creativity is fundamental to the human mind: how we Dreams & the Dream-sharing, Play, Kelly Bulkeley perceive the world and define and pursue the goals of Arts and Art life and share our own vision. Today’s talks connect Symposium Dreaming, MR#2 creativity to dreaming through psychology, philosophy, Dreaming, Imagination, and Imagination, Creativity: From Cave critical theory, and numerous historical and Bernard Welt Creativity Painting to the contemporary instances of art and ideas derived from Information dreams. Superhighway Author Jorge Luis Borges has said, “Writing is nothing more Arts & Lucid on the Page: A than a guided dream.” In this workshop, we’ll use dream Wednesday MR#3 Humanities Writing Experience Tzivia Gover lucidity to make our writing more vivid and alive. Simple Workshop for Dreamers techniques to achieve dream lucidity will be offered, as well 9:30-11:30 as ways to be lucidly aware when writing while awake. Attendees will participate in a "Social Dreaming Matrix", Social Dreaming Dreamwork Dave sharing dreams and associations, allowing shared external MR#4 Matrix: Dreams of the Workshop Billington concerns and creativity to emerge. A theme of Earth Earth Dreams will be a loose framework for the Matrix. Social Dream-Drawing is a methodology that helps those going through major personal and professional transitions to A Social Dream- Rose Redding better understand and cope with the inevitable pressures Dreamwork Drawing Workshop: Mersky & associated with these big life changes. Participants are MR#5 Workshop What Do I Risk in my Anton invited to bring recent dream drawings to the workshop. (22 limit) Transition? Zemlyanoy 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

Until now, research about pain in dreams has remained Pain and Nightmares sparse. In our study, chronic pain patients were - An Investigation of a Jonas Mathes hypothesized to have a higher nightmare frequency than Chronic pain Patient healthy persons, and to report more pain in their dreams. Sample The data was able to confirm all of our hypotheses. Anecdotal accounts abound, but little systematic work has IASDer Dream been done on dream meanings. A survey of IASD members Research Messages: reveals personal understandings of their nature, source(s), Symposium Psychology, David Low accuracy, and affective nature, perceived life benefits both MR#1 Dream to Reliability and Life- generally and with life passages, ways the dreams Waking Journey Benefits communicate, plus dreamers’ dialogue, misgivings and Association levels of compliance with messages. This study will track the word "school" in a sample of 6,514 dreams recorded by the same person over twenty years. I Long-Term Statistics anticipate an increase of school dreams during the years Nori Muster of School Dreams the dreamer was enrolled in school. The study will provide statistical evidence of continuity between dream and daytime concerns. My dream presented at the 2019 conference pre-referenced Wednesday unpredictable world events both in 2016 and 2020. This suggests consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of the A Dream for the Earth Tony Hawkins 12:00-1:30 material universe but is intimate with its cause. We need dream reading AI both to access this wholistic intelligence Spiritual and to life-tune AI. MR#2 Symposium This presentation reveals a real time confrontation with Existential Crisis death, during an existential crisis. The downward no exit Resulting in a spiral ends in a crucifixion experience. A breath and Crucifixion and Ronald Bugaj visualization meditation manifests a dream encounter with Resurrection by the the Spirit of Christ, who directs me to follow and ascend Spirit of Christ with him, in a symbolic resurrection. Lucid dreaming serves as a revolutionary psychological tool, which allows for observing, exploring and scientifically Accessing Unique Robert experimenting while consciously being aware of dreaming. Levels of Creativity in Waggoner In this presentation, you will learn how lucid dreamers Lucid Dreams (chair) access three unique levels of creativity, interact with a non- Lucidity Mr#3 visible responsive inner awareness, and utilize the hidden Symposium framework of dreaming. Lucid vs. Non-lucid This presentation is based upon the results of my 2018 PhD Dream Healing: Bhaskar dissertation on incubating healing dreams, one aspect of Comparing Banerji which was to compare lucid vs. non-lucid dream healing Approaches approaches.

With elements of Gestalt psychology, Psychodrama, Improvisation, and Lucid Dreaming, volunteer dreamers will Dreams & The cast, direct, and if they wish, act within their dream ‘scenes’ MR#4 Arts Workshop Lucid Dream Drama Angel Morgan with Dr. Morgan’s assistance. Learn when and how to (23 limit) creatively, intuitively rewrite and redirect parts of the dream Wednesday ‘script’ in the service of healing and wholeness. 12:00-1:30 This workshop will explore dreams of the dying and their families, and the benefits of talking about dreams. Drawing Dreams & How Dreams Bring Jeanne Van upon research, interviews with healthcare professionals, MR#5 Health Comfort at the End of Bronkhorst and her work as a hospice social worker, Jeanne will Workshop Life present a simple dream appreciation approach that upholds the dignity of the dreamer. 1:30-2:00 30 min Break In my work as a psychologist, as a Jungian analyst for over Dreams in the 30 years, patients often bring dreams about me, or I have Theresa Process of dreams about them. In this talk, I share my process for Coimbra Psychotherapy handling this initially delicate situation and how the therapeutic process can be deepened as a result. This lecture examines precognitive dream experiences, offering comprehensive information pertaining to their history, phenomenology, potential neural underpinnings, Dream Reports: From Patricia A and the implications for consciousness and the Textual Analysis to Wednesday Dreamwork Kilroe philosophical theories of determinism and nondeterminism. MR#1 Textual Play 2:00-4:00 Symposium The exposition will be useful for clinicians, researchers, and laypersons hoping to gain insight into a sublime, age-old phenomenon. A new science of images is emerging from computer science. Similar to the term “computational linguistics”, the Twenty Years’ Dream term “computational visualistics” is proposed for addressing Visualizations from John M the domain of investigating pictures scientifically, using the Sleep Recorded Corbett computer. Visualistics have predominantly been dealt with Information in several other disciplines, like philosophy and psychology (mental imagery domain).

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 Pandemic Dream Art Deirdre Barrett 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. This presentation will look at self-portraiture as a useful way to gain insight into severe nightmares or severe bad Using Self-Portraiture Rebecca dreams. Looking at Darcie Richardson’s theory that portraits to Gain Insight into Damien are mirrors of the soul and Betty Edwards drawing Severe Nightmares Dreams & the techniques, I will show how self-portraiture can uncover the MR#2 Arts hidden meanings of severe nightmares. Symposium In 2019, Sheila became the Dream Artist-in-Residence at the REM5 Virtual Reality Lab. In partnership with her A Dream Artist dreams, she has learned how to navigate this new medium Discovers Virtual Sheila Asato and create art that has had a profound effect on her life: Reality most notably, working through the sudden death of her father. Wednesday What if your unconscious could reach up through your 2:00-4:00 What if Your dreams and make art? We will see and discuss examples of Unconscious Could Walter Berry Surrealism, Art Brut, Outsider Art and the drawings of Make Art? dreamers where unexpected images emerge from the deep unconscious and end up as compelling dynamic art. In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore the places Dream Poetry: between dreaming and waking, between visual and verbal, Arts & Painting with Words, translating messages and images from our dreams into MR#3 Humanities Marta Aarli An Experiential poems. We’ll tap into our whole being to express the Workshop Workshop language of our body, heart, senses, and soul, through structured play, to free ourselves creatively. 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 Dreamwork Dream to Freedom: Robert Hoss used to identify emotional issues the dream and dreamer MR#4 Workshop Combining EFT with & Kristen Hoss are dealing with, followed by an EFT protocol for reducing (22 limit) Dreamwork 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.

Co-creative Dream Theory introduces a new perspective on The Construction and dream metaphor. I will review the seminal contributions of Analysis of Jung, Ullman, and Lakoff pertaining to the construction and Wednesday Research G. Scott MR#5 Metaphors in Co- analysis of dream imagery. Then I will examine specific Workshop Sparrow 2:00-4:00 Creative Dream principles and methods that will illuminate dimensions of Theory dreamwork heretofore overlooked by traditional assumptions. 4:00-4:30 30 min Break Dreams are universal to humans. Animals also seem to experience dream-like interludes during sleep suggesting Dreaming as that dreams are evolutionarily important. I briefly share Emotional Immune Katherine Bell some personal dream experiences, then share results of System published literature showing evidence that dreams, even when not remembered, are corrective and serve to enhance our emotional health. This paper presents a series of two dreams experienced by Dreams & Mary E. the second author that appear to address a chronic health Spiky Purple Gomes & condition. The imagery in the dreams conveyed new MR#1 Health Medicine: Dreaming Victoria information about her health and suggested a treatment Symposium of a Plant Spirit Brekelmans with a specific plant, with imagery that is resonant of shamanic plant spirit medicine. The Hero’s Journey (Jung, Campbell), as a monomyth, has The Healing Power of a universal structure: calling, death, rebirth, and Dreams: From Death transformation. Irvine illustrates how dream series can to Rebirth As The Debbie Irvine follow this archetypal pattern, leading to transformation and Wednesday Wounded-Healer and healing. She maps and demonstrates how series of dreams 4:30-6:00 Dream-Shaman from her life guided her through her own Hero’s Journey. Julie Nauman- Each artist presents visuals of their work. Conference Visual Artists Panel: Meet the Artists Mikulski (host) attendees will be provided the opportunity to gain an MR#2 Artistic Processes of Panel +12 exhibiting understanding of works in the exhibition narrated by some Working with Dreams artists of the artist themselves. Where Do Dreams This workshop explores embodiment as a bridge that Live in the Body? An deepens dreamwork by engaging the body through somatic Dreams & The Bess Park & Artistic Movement approaches informed by arts-based experiential practices. MR#3 Arts Workshop Nancy Approach to Participants will be guided to access the wisdom of the body (22 limit) Huslage Embodied as a crucial, and often overlooked, step in bringing the Dreamwork contents of our unconscious into consciousness awareness. If we know how to tap into the resource of our dreams, Solution Oriented anyone can gain insight and clarity about relationships, Dreamwork Dream Decoding; MR#4 Layne Dalfen work, family, life. The workshop provides tools to decode Workshop Problem Solving and understand why we have certain dreams on a particular While We Sleep night and how that knowledge can enrich our lives.

Tarotpy®, like dreamwork, connects us to our inherent wholeness and resilience. Especially during challenging Tarotpy®: Finding times such as a worldwide pandemic, social and political Wednesday Dreamwork Resilience and Lauren Z. MR#5 upheaval, and personal suffering, Tarotpy reinspires and Workshop Guidance for Life Schneider 4:30-6:00 indicates new pathways through hardship. Like dreaming, Challenges 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) The members of the IASD Visual Arts Committee will host Art Reception the arts reception. This is an opportunity to meet with artists Wednesday MR#2s Artist Awards and Casual Reception and art lovers in a social setting. Art works receiving special 6:30-7:30 Julie Nauman-Mikulski (host) recognition, including the Peoples´ Choice, will be announced at this time.

Thurs Zoom Type Title of Session Presenters Summary 6/17 Room Personal Thursday Morning Dream Repeats daily. Meeting Groups See Monday Schedule for Details on Morning Dream Groups and their Access Codes 8:00-9:00 Rooms 9:00-9:30 30 min Break 9:20 Attendees may begin entering the waiting room for the Keynote Special Thursday 9:30 – 9:45 Brief Final Announcements and Keynote Introduction (Hoss) MR#6 Multimedia 9:45-11:30 Keynote: Keith Salmon 9:20– 11:30 Event To Walk In Beauty (film) 11:30-12:00 30 min Break

This talk draws from interviews and promotional texts in the Courtney emerging field of dream tech to provide an overview of the Sheehan, The Neuroethics of scientific and technical state of the art in dream MR#1 Research Panel Aleena Chia, Dream Tech enhancement, analysis, and recording, and to present an Katja Valli interdisciplinary framework for the neuroethical (moderator) development of dream tech. This presentation considers examples of the interplay of “Intersection of dreams and life involving several synchronicities. Shared Dreams and Life: intersubjective experiences appear to demonstrate a Mysteries of Dan Gilhooley transpersonal non-local consciousness. Events involving Synchronicity and apparent mind-matter interactions cause the author to ask, Extraordinary Spirits” “Are spirits real?” The presentation concludes by MR#2 Dreams questioning the role of mind in creating material reality. Symposium The pandemic brought huge changes to all of us. What do we need to learn, individually and as a society, from this Connecting in global experience? The presenter incubated dreams to Dreams: Lessons Laurel Clark Thursday guide her understanding, to discern some of her personal from a Pandemic lessons and to make connections with friends even while 12:00-1:00 being “socially distant.” Jenniffer A Dreamer, while seeking answers to his existential Dreams & the MR#3 Infinity in a Dream ClarOscura questions in a Lucid Dream, encounters an ancient entity. Arts Film Event Azarov From the get-go, the bones of good art are baked into dreams: metaphor, imagery, emotional intensity, From Pillow to associative richness, mythic patterning, Dreams & the Publication: Bringing Donna Glee MR#4 vividness. Participants in this workshop will explore— Arts Workshop the Boon Back to the Williams through writing, sharing, examining, and sculpting memories People from their own dream life—how a writer translates dreams into fiction and poetry. Working with dreams in the coaching paradigm questions Coaching the Dream: the concepts of interpretation, consciousness, how we listen Dreamwork an Ancient to a dream as well as how and whether we should MR#5 Will Sharon Workshop Experience in a New categorize dreams. This workshop will explore these ideas Context and demonstrate how they are used by using the dreams of the attendees. 1:00-1:30 30 min Break

Archaeological excavations under my supervision at the Middleborough Little League Site provide much data about Native American activities. I have also recorded 350 Dreaming in the Curtiss dreams about the site. These are analyzed through several Digging Fields Hoffman theoretical lenses. While some dreams confirm each perspective, no theory is able to explain all of them satisfactorily. What is a dream? I think dreams identify complex patterns in experience and portray these in dream images. We Theory MR#1 Dream to See detect complex patterns in waking too, but thought is Symposium Sue Llewellyn Patterns convergent and driven by more obvious associations; whereas, during dreaming, we spot less obvious associations because we think in a divergent way. "Talking Hands, We verbally speak our way through each day, yet every Moving Bodies"; night we revert to the visual language of dreams. Find out Exploring Similarities Roberta what the researcher's dreams and pertinent literature had to between Sign- Latefa Mineo say about the unique nature of embodied, visual language Language and Dream through a comparison of the language of dreams to ASL. Thursday Language 1:30-3:00 Visitation dreams are powerful and emotionally healing. As visitations they raise the possibility of an afterlife, but it is The Dual Nature of Jeanne Van their dream quality that allows us to more fully engage with Visitation Dreams Bronkhorst them. Using research, interviews with grief counsellors, and a personal visitation experience, I explore the dream aspect of visitation dreams. In this presentation Linda Mastrangelo will be exploring a The Serpent and the series of personal dreams that surprisingly connect with her Lion: An Exploration Linda family genealogy and ancient ancestral roots and with MR#2 Psi Symposium of Place, Dreams, Mastrangelo places of origin. Using psychology, myth, art, sacred and DNA geography as well as DNA testing, Mastrangelo makes symbolic connections between dreaming and place. Many people worldwide have serpents in their dreams. Serpents in dreams are a very powerful mythic symbol. A Serpents in Our Dennis R. two-page "Legend of Serpent Dreams" is a handout that Dreams Archambault 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.

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 Mental Imagery The Waking Dream MR#3 Janet Piedilato challenge. Participants are taught to enter the waking Workshop Incubation Workshop dream with the aid of shamanic drumming and chanting. Through dream imagery, they learn to interpret communication. Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey is a model outlining the Thursday 12 stages a hero encounters on his/her noble quest. The The 12 Stages of the Dreamwork Kelly Sullivan process of Dream Mastery is a hero’s journey, and the 12- 1:30-3:00 MR#4 Hero's Journey in Workshop Walden stage map supports the dreamer to access greater power DreamWork and perspective as they navigate their way through their dream life. In this workshop, we will take the energy of significant parts of the dream and create poetry. The poem as the Dreamwork MR#5 Fluidity of Dreams Devi Prem condensed version of the dream builds the base for a Workshop signature movement that can be shapeshifted by one’s soul’s direction to empower the dreamer. 3:00-3:30 30 min Break This presentation attempts to demonstrate the ways in Literature, Dreams and which the dreamscape has become part of mainstream the Arts: Imagination and Sharon Lynn literature, from the Romantics to 20th century. Artistic Transformation in Sieber images accompany the movement of surrealism, and are Simultaneous Time evocative of the greater reaches of the imagination and the Thursday Dreams & subconscious as a source for artistic expression. MR#1 the Arts Based on near-nightly dreams containing music as well as 3:30- 5:30 Symposium years of explorations as a dream-inspired composer, Music from DreamLand - producer, semi-loose-id inner||outer scientist, and musical A Dream~Artist + Craig Webb performing artist, the presenter will share dream-related Pscientist's Journey insights, principles and a diverse medley of dreamt music and soundscapes.

The Precognitive Dream Contests held at IASD’s Psiber How Is It We Can Dream Dreaming Conferences offer ample evidence that we can of the Future? Cynthia dream the future, but don’t explain how that is possible. In Speculating on the Pearson this presentation we will illuminate the question by exploring results of 18 Precognitive recent research and provocative perspectives such as field Dream Contests consciousness, "premory" and simultaneous time. This presentation provides compelling evidence of dreams Correspondences that reflected events in the dreamer’s community, society, Between Dream and world before these events were publicly reported. This Shanee Narratives & Societal evidence points to the need for a transpersonal interpretive Stepakoff Events: A Transpersonal framework that views dreams as indicative of species- Interpretive Framework connectedness and potentially beneficial for society as a whole. Psi MR#2 This presentation reviews spontaneous dreams and Symposium experimental precognitive dream projects; examines the Experiencing Art and the correlation between dream imagery and future events; Future News in Dale E. Graff evaluates how dreams illustrate visionary art principles and Precognitive Dreams cognitive processes; discusses retrocausation and ATP (Associative Target Picture) protocol for event predictions. Guidelines for precognitive dream proficiency are provided. Thursday This lecture examines precognitive dream experiences, 3:30- 5:30 offering comprehensive information pertaining to their A Critical Investigation history, phenomenology, potential neural underpinnings, into Precognitive Paul Kiritsis and implications for consciousness and the philosophical Dreams: Dreamscaping theories of determinism and nondeterminism. A useful without My Timekeeper exposition for clinicians, researchers, and laypersons hoping to gain insight into a sublime, age-old phenomenon. First hour: Dreams co-hosted by Bernard Welt and Loren Goodman. Participants read one dream in any format they Bernard Welt choose, as long as they share an authentic dream Open Reading: Dreams & Loren experience and stick to the 3-minute time limit. The dream Goodman speaks for itself. No introduction; no explanation; no Open comments. (anyone wishing to read will be chosen on a first Reading: come basis as they enter the session) MR#3 Dreams & Second hour: Poetry co-hosted by Marta Aarli and Asha Poetry Sahni. Participants read one poem, or a few short ones, in any format they choose, as long as it is their own original Marta Aarli & Open Reading: Poetry dream poetry and stick to the 3-minute time limit. The Asha Sahni 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)

This workshop draws on the intelligence of two big dreams about social change. Sharing of the dreams Arts & How to Make Change Humanities will be followed by a guided meditation, a journaling MR#4 in the World: Can Tina Tau Workshop exercise, group discussion and an art activity. These Dreams Help? (20 limit) particular dreams invite us to experience awe, love Thursday and possibility in the face of overwhelming odds. 3:30- 5:30 Dreams of trees often seem to have a powerful and special quality, saying something about what it feels Dreamwork Christopher MR#5 Dreams of Trees like for us to exist on this earth. Dr Sowton will present Workshop Sowton 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 Virtual Costume Parade and Dream Ball Don a costume and share the dream figure in your Walter Berry (host) dream it came from and then dance in this two-hour Zoom 6:00-8:00 6:00 - 7:00 Costume Parade event. The costume parade will be followed by a LIVE Link 7:00 - 8:00 Virtual Dream Ball with Live Band band -Ed Mays Groove Kitchen- Hosted by Walter “Groove Kitchen” Berry- The Wizard of Awes. Gonna be a blast!

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!

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