The Dream Journal

My personal writing mentor, Andy Couturier, is helping me through the birth of my book about dreaming. Andy is also an avid dreamer in his own right, and he has lots of say about using dreams to deepen our enchantment and sense of magic in the world. We start with Andy sharing an early childhood dream of bookcases full of presents which he thinks of as the gifts of life to come. He says that dreams are a welcome non-utilitarian part of my life and quotes from Thomas Moore’s book The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life. We talk about the Abundance of Less by our guest and The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. Andy recommends that we ask questions of our dreams without needing to answer them. He also shares some writing exercises from his book Writing Open the Mind designed to access the subconscious and describes the logistics of his self-organized dream group encouraging you, the listener, to set up one of your own. We take a call from a widow in Aptos whose husband died three years ago. After an absence of three years, now he is starting to appear in her dreams. We also take a call from Elizabeth in Bellingham who says that her dreams are guiding her as she writes her memoir, and she ends by asking a provocative question about how we are each placed in time which inspires Andy to share one of his precognitive dreams. Sign up for Andy’s contact list to stay in the loop about the new course he will offer later this summer called “Dreaming and Writing,” or to sign up for one of his Book Completion groups. BIO: Mentor of hundreds of completed books and author of Writing Open the Mind and The Abundance of Less, Andy Couturier is a writing coach and an engaged dreamer. During waking hours he is also guiding Katherine’s book creation journey using innovative writing techniques that access subconscious processes. He walks the line between dreams and the waking subconscious, practicing an open-minded curiosity and amazement toward dreams, and he likes to welcome all the dream parts without making a story of them, but including them all and giving them all voice. He is developing a new course for this summer called “Dreaming and Writing.” Find our guest at: theopening.org or on IG at Andy.Couturier. 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 May 13 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

In this rebroadcast from Jan 2022, Gilda Morina Syverson reads three of her dream-inspired poems throughout the show starting off with one about connecting with her ancestors. Gilda then talks about her Italian-American father and how his interest in dreams sparked her life-long interest. We speak about spiritual guides, guardian angels and animal guides (which can appear in either dreams or waking life) and also the dream revolution, day dreaming and potholders (yes potholders). It’s a banner day for the Journal; we take two phone calls and four emails from listeners who have questions ranging from angels to dream droughts. One of the callers is Doris Snyder who we talk about in regards to day dreaming. Doris was on the show in October, 2021. Larry Sorkin, our second caller, appears on the show a few months later in February 2022. BIO: Gilda Morina Syverson is a poet, author, artist and educator with an MFA from Southern Illinois University. She is a Healing Touch Practitioner and a Memoir Instructor. Gilda has been writing poetry for over thirty-five years much of which is based on her extensive dream life. Her books of poetry are called In This Dream Everything Remains Inside and Facing the Dragon. Gilda’s award-winning poetry and prose have appeared in literary journals, magazines and anthologies in the US and Canada. Her Italian-American heritage is also the impetus for many of her poems and her first memoir, My Father’s Daughter, From Rome to Sicily. Contact her at GildaSyverson.com.   Show aired on May 6 2023, rebroadcast from a live show recorded January 8, 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 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.

Was that a coincidence or synchronicity? The Radio 8 Ball Show gives you practice seeing into your subconscious by noticing musical synchronicities. We speak today to the founder and host of the Radio 8 Ball Show, Andras Jones. With the song “When I Dream” by Bart Davenport. We define synchronicity, then Andras describes one of the most profound synchronicities of his life when he unexpectedly ran into his brother in Vienna. He says that such coincidences suggest that the world is more magical than we usually recognize. He talks about how he was influenced by his father, Richard M. Jones, a dream academic and author. Andras Jones will be performing his “Radio 8 Ball Show” at the upcoming IASD conference in Ashland Oregon, June 18-22. We play a clip from a song by Bart Davenport who will be the musical guest on the show. Find out about the conference at ASDreams.org We end up talking about how to ask good questions to inspire synchronicity. Check out the free Radio8Ball app. BIO: Andras Jones is the host & creator of Radio8Ball: musical divination where questions are answered by picking songs at random and interpreting them like musical tarot cards. He calls this “consulting The Pop Oracle”. Andras will be presenting Radio8Ball with Bart Davenport as the musical guest on June 19th at the annual conference of International Association of the Study of Dreams (IASD). You may also know Andras as an actor in films like “A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Dream Master”, as a host of The World Is Wrong podcast, and as an author of “Accidental Initiations: In The Kabbalistic Tree of Olympia”, and as a songwriter as well. Find our guest at: PreviouslyYours.com, Radio8Ball.com, TheWorldIsWrongPodcast.com and on FB @andras.jones, IG @andrasjones and Twitter @andrasjones and also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/48BUJRgspycszUcUSsQsoa and Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Andras-Jones/author/B007F380TI 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 April 29 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.

Today marks our 200th podcast! We speak with Alaya Dannu who converses with her ancestors in her dreams and has learned how to pray using sacred dance steps. She describes these dreams as the transmission of ancestral memory across generations. They always arise from lucid dreams and yet cannot be incubated or controlled. We speak about the difference between ancestral dreams and past life dreams and about how the body is a sacred amplifier of energy. We take a call from Chris from Felton who asks about the difference between ancestor dreams and visitation dreams, and she shares a lucid dream in which her grandfather tells her, “Life has an undeniable will.” We also talk about Alaya’s podcast Cosmogenia and her role in the IASD June conference in Ashland. She will open and close the event with sacred dances and lead a workshop in which you can learn how to use AI generative art to express your dreams visually. Find out about the IASD conference at IASDconferences.org/2023/ BIO: Alaya A Dannu, MA (aka Diya Dannu) is completing her doctoral degree in Education at Fielding University. Her topic of inquiry explores the transmission of ancestral memory across generations experienced through dreams, focusing on a re-emergent Mother Goddess tradition of her foremothers. She has written several essays on the subject matter, contributing to ezines and specialized platforms such as the blog for Feminism and Religion, Magoism, and DreamTime Magazine.  Find our guest at: TempleofHetTawy.org, and on IG @house.of.elishmar and at FB @diyadanuelishmar 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 April 22, 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.

What is a futuristic dino apple? This is a creature that came out of Katie’s forearm in a dream. She has been working with this image for years now and it has opened a rich vein of authenticity and ridiculousness. Katie talks about this image and about how leading a parade for the Festival of Dreams in Santa Cruz in 2019 was the most fun thing she has done so far in her life. We talk about learning to play and about getting into our child selves. We talk about creativity and daydreams. Katie describes a performance at the IASD conference in Tucson July 17-21 that was still in the future at the time of the conversation. Katie will be giving another performance at the June 2023 conference in Ashland Oregon. Learn about the conference at IASDconferences.org/2023/ We take a call from Sebastien from Ohio and he describes a dream in which he meets a dead professor at a theme park and ends up with gazpacho soup. He plays with the dream at Katie’s encouragement, singing about what it meant to him. We also take a call from Doris Snyder from New Jersey. BIO: Katie Mason, MA, LPC is from Colorado. She is a psychotherapist and facilitates growth and healing using Dreamwork in her Private Practice. Katie is also a dream performer, combining spoken word poetry, humor and dream images to creatively express her dream truths. Contact her at katiemason.com 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 Tony Russomano for answering the phones. Show aired on April 15, 2023 replayed from a January 22, 2022 broadcast.   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.

Warning! Poor audio from 3:00 to 16:30. Either hang in there for the fascinating content, or skip forward. Want a better life? Who doesn’t?! Our guest today is called the myth slayer. Scott Mason will help you identify your toxic myths and create better ones. We start by defining mythology giving an example about the American mythology related to Abe Lincoln. He suggests learning to recognize your own myths and how they might hold you back then chose a new more empowering myth. After the break Scott spends some time drawing me out about my own personal myth of Persephone. We take a call from Deb Cox Voisin from Santa Cruz who shares a dream about creating a figure with a spine that goes all the way to the ground. We will have Scott back on the show in July to talk about psychedelics. BIO: Scott Mason is the Myth Slayer, a coach and speaker who takes clients and audiences on an epic odyssey, using the universal truths and deeper meanings of Greek mythology to magnetize and monetize professional freedom. After graduating from Columbia Law School, Scott worked for over 20 years as an attorney and C-Suite executive with a variety of government and nonprofit organizations before successfully growing and scaling a manufacturing company. He hosts the podcast Webdelics, where he slays myths about psychedelics, and helps audiences uncover the truth and find their own version of mental, spiritual, and professional freedom. Find our guest at: MyFreedomRocks.com and Webdelics.com, and at @scott.mason.1291 @s.scott_mason @webdelics 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 April 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 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.

It’s April Fool’s Day, and we are talking with dreaming’s biggest trickster Robert Moss. Moss is a shamanic dreamer and author of over two dozen books. Today talk about traveling without leaving home. Robert describes himself as a story teller who helps people find their story. He begins with the tale of what happened when he was pronounced dead at age 3 and about how dreaming is preparation for dying. We speak about the power of imagination and about the practice of living by synchronicity which he calls kairomancy. He urges us to remember to play. We take a dream from Steve Popp of Santa Cruz in which his dad offers him a horse which ultimately turns into a deer, and a call from Elizabeth from Bellingham who asks about how to stimulate more dreams, who mentions a dream of her own about a blue horse. We also take a call from Beth Ann from the Central Valley who asks about how to find humor and playfulness around dark dreams. Synchronistically, she also mentions dreams about horses. Robert announces that he will lead a course called Adventures in Soul Travel which will be released on the Shift Network in May, BIO: Robert Moss has been a dream traveler since doctors pronounced him dead in a hospital in Tasmania when he was three years old. His School of Active Dreaming is a synthesis of modern dreamwork and ancient shamanic practices for journeying to realms beyond the physical. He leads adventures all over the world, including a three-year teacher training and popular online courses for the Shift Network. He is a New York Times bestselling novelist, poet, journalist, and independent scholar. His latest book is Growing Big Dreams: Manifesting Your Heart’s Desires through 12 Secrets of the Imagination. Find our guest at: MossDreams.com and on Facebook @RobertMossBooks @ActiveDreaming 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 April 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 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.

Does dream sharing increase empathy and insight? Today meet two English professors who say, “Yes it does!” The Science and Art of Dreaming is their new book. Mark starts out by talking about the innocence of dreams and how they tell the truth, even though we often can’t recognize it. Julia suggests we can look at dreams as our own art work. Together they describe their process in which Mark guides the discussion of a dream while Julia creates a drawing around the dream on pages torn from Frued’s famous book, The Interpretation of Dreams. Mark describes his research which shows that (1) dream sharing increases empathy of group members and (2) people who are high in empathy are more attracted to dreamwork than those who are not. He also touches on human self-domestication and shares recent work suggesting that dream sharing might have been an important part of that process. We take three callers. First John from Santa Cruz describes that he feels sensations in dreams like thorns prickling but not body blows. Steve Popp from the Garden Show then shares a dream about a hooded black cobra lying in square coils. Finally we take a call from Ray of Santa Cruz who dreamt of being chased by a giant bear at Stonehenge. BIO: Mark Blagrove is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Sleep Laboratory at Swansea University, UK. He is a past-President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Julia Lockheart is Associate Professor at the Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity St David, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts. Since 2016 they have undertaken public Ullman dream discussions, with Julia simultaneously painting each dream as part of their DreamsID.com collaboration. The collaboration has resulted in their 2023 book, The Science and Art of Dreaming, published by Routledge. Find our guests at: DreamsID.com On twitter @mark_blagrove and @DreamsID, Instagram DreamsID_artworks, on Facebook @DreamsID2, and on YouTube dreams_id 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 March 25 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.

When are ADHD and dyslexia assets instead of handicaps? When you are an octopus! Our guest today is Dr. Octopus himself, Perry Knoppert. We talk about about his nonlinear revolution called the Octopus Movement. Perry’s movement welcomes all out-of-the-box thinkers celebrating neurodiversity, multipotentiality and deep curiosity. We muse over how nonlinear dreams are, and Perry describes being nonlinear as like being on psychedelics all the time. Perry and Katherine explore several of his recent dreams from different angles. Perry describes how he has been experimenting with not needing to understand his dreams but has been finding it valuable to carry them around with him during the day. He wonders if perhaps they are often dramatic because there are so many things that we are not paying attention to during the day. He urges listeners to join his revolution. BIO: Perry Knoppert aka Dr. Octopus is a nonconformist, embodies the spirit of a life artist. Born in the free-spirited Netherlands, he sold lampshades with his father and experienced the diversity of the market. But Perry yearned for more and discovered the beauty of unexpected possibilities in Beijing, China. Embracing his ADHD energy, dyslexic learning style, and multi-tasking brain, Perry founded The Octopus Movement, a mycelium of nonlinear thinkers. The platform empowers out-of-the-box thinkers to unleash their unique talents and shape the world with their artful approach to life. Perry is a visionary, a trailblazer, and a true-life artist. Find our guest at: TheOctopusMovement.org, and on FB & IG @TheOctopusMovement 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 March 18, 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.

Tap into your midnight mind and supercharge your writing! Today, we are “Dreaming on the Page” with author of seven books and Certified Dream Professional Tzivia Gover. Tzivia tells us she started paying attention to her dreams because of her many nightmares about scary dogs, and it has been a long road both in befriending her dreams and in improving her mental health. She gives suggestions about using dreams to solve writer’s block as well as for the source for poems and songs. She talks about her book “Joy in Every Moment” about mindfulness and meditation and suggests that inner work can be viewed from a physical fitness perspective in which we start by taking little steps such as incorporating gratitude into our regular mental fitness routine. We take a call from Jenny from Massachusetts who shares one of her poems which was inspired by both dreams and waking life events. Tzivia offers online workshops including a first-Tuesday-of-the-month “Dreaming on the Page” writing circle. She will be presenting a “Lucid on the Page” version of this workshop live at the IASD conference in Ashland OR June 17-22 which you can learn about at asdreams.org. BIO: Tzivia Gover, Certified Dreamwork Professional, is the author of seven books, most recently “Dreaming on the Page: Tap into Your Midnight Mind to Supercharge Your Writing”. She also offers 1:1 dreamwork, and workshops on dreams, writing, and everyday joy to empower people to wake up to their best selves. She is interested in and endlessly curious about the ways dreams serve individuals and the collective for guidance and healing, as well as the scientific, psychological, and spiritual aspects of dreams and creative writing. She lives and dreams in western Massachusetts. Find our guest at: ThirdHouseMoon.com Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music, called Wind Whispers, 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 March 11 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.