The Dream Journal

Today’s guest composes music to his patient’s dreams, capturing feelings and moods and deepening the psychotherapeutic process. Dr. Michael Mollura is a PhD licensed clinical psychologist and also an award-winning music composer for TV and movies. Michael started by scoring music to his own dreams and later found out how valuable the practice was in deepening the healing for his psychotherapy clients. We play a clip of one such piece called Scary Path Dream. Michael describes the process of scoring the piece including using cello to represent the waving branches of the trees. He also describes the effect that listening to this creation had on his client in deepening her process and even bringing up waking life memories that she had forgotten. We take a call from Steven Ernenwein who describes his own experience scoring music for the dreams of guests on his podcast The Dreams that Shape Us. BIO: Dr. Michael Mollura is a licensed clinical psychologist with a Ph.D from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a Master’s Degree in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He composes music to the dream reports of his psychotherapy clients as a way of accessing unconscious material to provide healing pathways on neurological and collective levels. The therapy draws a bridge between Dr. Mollura’s work as a professional award-winning music composer and as a clinician and is an innovative way to promote healing and well-being for his clients. Find our guest at: DrMichaelMollura.com Show aired on July  29, 2023. Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Ambient music is created new every week by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing.   Contact Katherine Bell with feedback or suggestions for future shows at katherine@ksqd.org. Follow her on FB and IG @ExperientialDreamwork to find out about upcoming shows. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her go to ExperientialDreamwork.com. The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific Time. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms and are released the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Available on all major podcast platforms. Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Have you ever felt better about yourself after telling someone your story? Today we speak with author and cult survivor Gerette Buglion who guides others to tell their “I got out” stories in a process she calls Writing to Reckon. We start with a question from podcast listener Beth sent via Instagram, “What was your biggest motivation for telling your story and what were your hopes for it in the world?” We go deep into answers to those questions and also address the shame that people sometimes feel about discovering that they have been in a coercive situation. We talk about how writing your story can help you find a way back to yourself and why you might or might not want to share it and with whom. Support for writing your story can be found at igotout.org/empowerment including Gerette’s free Writing to Reckon classes, or register here GeretteBuglion.com/writingtoreckon. Gerette finishes by sharing her three favorite writing prompts designed to help you reclaim your own power as you write your story. Her new book is a journal to help you flesh out your story. The August zoom book launch party will be Tuesday, August 29 at 7pm Eastern Time. To join, register here GeretteBuglion.com/writing-to-reckon-book. BIO: Born a middle child of seven, Gerette Buglion is a natural – and lifelong – educator. Today, she’s Executive Director of IGotOut, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting survivors of cultic relationships and author of An Everyday Cult and Writing to Reckon Journal for Survivors of Religious, Spiritual and Cultic Abuse. Find our guest at: GeretteBuglion.com IGotOut.org #igotout #writingtoreckon #everydaycult Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on July 15, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org. Follow her on FB and IG @ExperientialDreamwork or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

When should you do the opposite of what you usually do?  Today we speak about lucid dreaming, shadow work, and dream yoga with Chris Cunniffe. Chris had been a lawyer for 8 years when he had a dream which nudged him onto a more spiritual path. In the dream, Chris was at a Milli Vanilli conference which led him to wonder about what part of his life was a false front. Chris urges us to consider “doing the opposite”. For example: dreaming is meaningless; consider that it might be meaningful. Nightmares are bad and should  be avoided; perhaps they are helpful. I should run away from that monster in my dream; maybe I should turn towards it. Chris gives examples of using this idea with shadow dream figures. We then speak about treating waking life as a lucid dream including connecting with those cartoon-like figures we encounter over and over. I got some personal ahas from this discussion about my own trouble delegating tasks. We end by talking about the idea that some of the people we meet in our dreams are counterparts or soulmates. BIO: Chris is a graduate of Holy Cross College (1993) and Harvard Law School (1996). He has a career background as an entrepreneur in both law and real estate. In 2015, Chris founded Lucid Coaching, LLC, as a creative vehicle for offering coaching services to clients and for publishing articles and videos about dreams, personal development, and spirituality. Chris currently serves as a board member and volunteer facilitator at Bliss Spiritual Co-op, a Charleston based retreat center, where he facilitates discussion groups about dreams and other topics. Find our guest at: lucidcoaching.com and on IG and FB @lucidcoaching Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on July 8, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Connect to the soul using dream incubation! We speak with Machiel Klerk starting with the dream that inspired his creation of the fabulous Jung Platform, a site offering online courses, lectures, and certificate programs that are inspired by Jungian psychology. We go deep into dream incubation: what it is, what kind of questions to ask, how to set up a meaningful ritual to improve your changes for success, and how to recognize and work with the answer. We also talk about nightmares which Machiel describes as trying to wake us up to something in the unconscious that is ready to emerge into the conscious mind. BIO: Machiel Klerk is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping people access their divine wisdom. He helps individuals identify their challenges and break old patterns  to live a more balanced, creative life fulfilling their divine purpose. He is the author of DREAM GUIDANCE: Connecting to The Soul Through Dream Incubation (Hay House), where he guides readers on tapping into their inner wisdom through dreams as well as the founder of the Jung Platform, a website that offers online courses on psychological and spiritual perspectives, which he created as a result of a dream. Find our guest at: MachielKlerk.com and JungPlatform.com, also on FB @machielklerk1 and IG @machielklerk. Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on July 1, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Instead of puzzling over the meaning of your dreams, bring them to life with Natural Dreamwork. This show originally aired last Fall. Katherine speaks with poet and author Rodger Kamenetz. He suggests a practice of exploring dreams which starts with counting your blessings. He also spoke about dreams as symbolic in the same way that poems are and about dreaming as a sacred encounter. We take calls from Kat from Delaware who dreams about a baby with a too long neck and from Maureen who dreams about waiting for her boyfriend by two bridges. BIO: Rodger Kamenetz is the author of 15 books of poetry and prose. His book The Jew in the Lotus is an international best-seller. He is Professor Emeritus at LSU where he founded the MFA program in creative writing and the Jewish Studies minor. He is the founder of Natural Dreamwork, an international group of twenty dreamwork practitioners who approach the dream as a natural resource for healing and spiritual growth. The History of Last Night’s Dream was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Soul Series. The Natural Dreamwork approach is to avoid interpretation and focus instead on bringing to life rich moments of feeling in dreams that arise in sacred encounters. A recent presentation to the Yale Alumni Association gives a good sense of the approach that he’s developed after eighteen years of experience working with dream clients: https://youtu.be/KFQCBU9U7ik Find him at kamenetz.com and thenaturaldream.com Twitter: @Jewinthelotus, Instagram: @rodgerkam, Tiktok: @kamenetz, FaceBook: Rodger.Kamenetz, YouTube: https://bit.ly/RodgerKYouTube Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on June 24, 2023 rebroadcast from an episode that originally aired November 7, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Why do we go to all the trouble and expense to come to a conference anyway? I ask six dreamers what they find here and the answers vary: family, inspiration, friendship, understanding, plus going to conference is like going to Hogwarts! My guests are Victoria Rabinowe, Curt Hoffman, Marcia Emery, and Bob Krumhansl in the first half, and Linda Schiller and Lauren Schneider (with a reprise from Victoria) in the second. The conversation ranges on from my original question and includes topics like why are dreamers considered airy fairy when my dreamer friends are the most grounded people I know? And, where do the images come from anyway? I apologize for rough audio in the first 30 minutes! Skip ahead if you want to, or take a listen all the way through. There is still time to register for the online portion of the conference at IASDconferences.org/2023 Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on June 17, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Nightmares: what’s their cause and cure? Our guest is clinician and dream demystifier, Dr. Leslie Ellis. Nightmares seem to be caused by anything upsetting whether in recent life or from long ago. Luckily, we don’t need to know what is causing a nightmare to work with it. Dreaming helps us metabolize emotions but nightmares can wake us up, interrupting the process. She describes a dream as a picture of our current or habitual nervous system condition (ala Eugene Gendlin). It can be helpful to rescript the dream or change the ending in an environment where we feel calm and safe. Dr. Ellis describes bias control and aspects of Stephen Porges’s polyvagal theory. BIO: Leslie Ellis is author of A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy and offers online dreamwork certification to mental health professionals. Her experiential approach to engaging with dreams is based on focusing, an approach that privileges the body’s felt sense in the exploration of dreams. Developed by Eugene Gendlin, a focusing approach includes finding help in a dream and bias control. Leslie has expanded on this method to develop an embodied approach to treating nightmares, and recently published a paper in the journal Dreaming on nightmares and the nervous system.  Find our guest at: DrLeslieEllis.com Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on June 10, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Dreaming can help us prepare for and recover from loss, but how do we continue to engage with Spirit during our waking lives? Today, we have a conversation about Lucid Living with Sahlah Dubel. This is a rebroadcast of a August 2022 show. Stay tuned for updates about Divine by Design at the end of the show. Sahlah shares several stories about the recent passage of her mother and how her dreams both prepared her for the event and helped her process her grief around it. She speaks about practices she uses to bring dreams into her waking life including gentle awakening, journaling and mindfully sitting with the feelings of the dream. She suggests that dreaming is a sentient entity that we can be in relationship with and sings a song for us that she wrote about a dream that helped her make a major decision for her family. BIO: Sahlah is co-founder of Divine by Design, a corporation dedicated to supporting community resilience and holistic wellness. As a generational dreamer, dream integration was essential to her family’s paradigm for emotional wellness. Her spiritual journey includes immersive meditation practices, strategies for detoxification, and a profound understanding of the healing qualities of movement, song, prayer, and nature. She’s facilitates dreaming workshops providing techniques to navigate dreams and embrace lucid living.  Find our guest at: DivinebyDesign.org Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on June 3, 2023 rebroadcast from a show which originally aired August 22, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on…” Dreams and ​the ​​theater with guest ​Professor ​Angel Morgan.​ Angel starts by describing lucid dream drama where the dreamer is performer, director, audience and also playwright, getting to chose whether to change the dream or not, saying that this kind of dream exploration helps build the muscle for lucid dreaming. Angel talks about her presentations at the upcoming IASD conference in Ashland (June 18-22), which are all related to dreaming and theater. We talk about when theater appears in dreams, examples of dream-inspired theater through the ages, and indigenous approaches to dream drama. Angel shares some stories about her time as a professional actor from the age of 10 and what then drew her into studying nighttime dreams professionally. She finishes by describing the graduate-level dream studies certificate offered by Sofia University where she teaches. BIO: Angel Morgan, PhD is a past president of IASD, transpersonal psychology professor and director of the graduate Dream Studies Certificate program at Sofia University, founder of Dreambridge, author/illustrator of The Alphabliss of Miss, and Dreamer’s Powerful Tiger: A New Lucid Dreaming Classic for Children and Parents of the 21st Century. She will be locally co-hosting the 40th Annual conference for IASD June 18-22 in Ashland, Oregon with Kelly Bulkeley, PhD. Find our guest at: TheDreamBridge.com, www.sofia.edu/ourprograms/certificates/dream-studies-certificate/, and learn about the IASD conference at IASDconferences.org/2023/ Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on May 27. 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

A Viet Nam combat vet with PTSD. What do 137 of his dreams over 45 years reveal about how dreams help us process emotion? Also tips for dealing with nightmares and highlights from the upcoming IASD conference. Katherine speaks with IASD conference co-chair and founder of Dream Science Robert Hoss. Bob describes that after a traumatic event, dreams can be direct replays, but over time, as symptoms ease, dreams morph into metaphors related to the event. Bob gives examples of how dreams offer us alternative solutions to our dilemmas and change our minds IN THE DREAM, so that we don’t have to work with a dream or even remember it to benefit from the dreaming process. He describes nightmares as unfinished dreams and gives several ways of working with them including Image Rehearsal Therapy and becoming lucid. Bob shares several touching dreams about his wife with dementia. We also talk briefly about the IASD conference in Ashland June 18-22. For information go to IASDconferences.org/2023/ BIO: Robert Hoss, MS is a director and Past President of IASD, the IASD International Conference Director, Director of the Dream Science Foundation for funding research grants, is a Haden Institute faculty instructor and is on the board of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare. He specializes in Gestalt Therapy, Jungian theory and contemporary dream research.  He is author/editor of: Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology & Culture (ABC-CLIO); Dreams that Change Our Lives (Chiron); Dream to Freedom (EP Press); Dream Language (Innersource); chapter author in 5 clinical or professional publications as well as 6 other dream related books; plus 4 peer-reviewed journal publications.  Among various media sources, his work has been featured in a PBS special, Readers Digest, Prevention, the Psychology Today blog and USA Today. Find our guest at: DreamScience.org   Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on May 20, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.