Different ways of Exploring Dreams with Six Dream Experts and Three Callers

As we approach the 300th episode of the Dream Journal, I invite five dream experts to talk about their various approaches to dreamwork. All six will be presenters at the all-day in person IASD regional conference on March 1, 2025 in Whittier, California.

Guests are conference host Geoff Nelson who talks about the spirituality of dreaming, Lauren Schneider (dreamsandtarotpy.com) who describes her collective approach and her process of using tarot cards which she calls Tarotpy, Kelly Sullivan Walden (dreamifesting.com) who speaks about her experience of being evacuated during the recent LA fires and also about her process of incubating dreams for maximal waking-life manifestation, Marilyn Manzi (dreamsomatix.com) who focuses on dreaming as medicine and also finding pleasure in them, Walter Berry (drawnintothedream.com) who describes the value of drawing dream moments, and finally host, Katherine Bell, (ExperientialDreamwork.com) who describes her treasure hunt approach to dream exploration and drops hints about her in-progress book.

After the break we take two calls. The first is from Emily and Kyle in El Sobrante. Kyle shares a dream about someone having an interview, and we take turns offering “If it were my dream…” insights from our various perspectives. Emily and Kyle also describe their work on using a massive dataset of dreams to predict public opinion which can be found at codreaming.org. We take a second call from Emily from Soquel who describes a dream about the joy of feeling healed from a waking life knee injury.

Whittier conference details and registration can be found at ASDreams.org/regionals/. Find out more about the International Association for the Study of Dreams June 21-25 online conference at IASDconferences.org/2025/. Also, the 2025 Santa Cruz IASD regional will be October 10-12, 2025 at the Museum of Art and History at FestivalofDreams.net. Contact me to get on the mailing list to be informed about these and many other upcoming dream-related offerings.

This show, episode number 299, was recorded during a live broadcast on February 22, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for the answering the phones.

 

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The Dream Journal aims to: Increase awareness of and appreciation for nightly dreams. Inspire dream sharing and other kinds of dream exploration as a way of adding depth and meaningfulness to lives and relationships. Improve soci