Dearest Dreamers,
My deadline for Send Me Your Dreams comes up
before the end of the 29th Annual Conference of the International
Association for the Study of Dreams. So
as I write this, I’m gearing up to spend four and half days in Berkeley immersed
in a dream world of dreamers.
In my own brand of nerdiness, I set goals when
I registered months ago: #1 - Meet, no,
more than meet, actually converse with Gayle Delaney, Patricia Garfield, and
Ernest Hartmann. All Ph.D.’s. All pioneers steeped in dream research and
education. All so cool.
I’ll report back later. But in the short term, here’s my preview:
Gayle Delaney is the founding President of the
Association for the Study of Dreams. She
wrote my go-to book for the understanding and practical application of dreams -
Living Your Dreams. She specializes
in the pragmatic uses of dreams for problem solving and psychological insight. My kind of gal. Maybe you remember seeing her steps for
incubating dreams in my columns.
Patricia Garfield is a renowned expert in the
study of dreams. She is the
prize-winning author of eleven books on dreams, most notably her first bestseller
Creative Dreaming (1974), considered a classic. Revised in 1995, it's still in print and
appears in fifteen languages. Dr.
Garfield is Co-Founder and Past President of the International Association for
the Study of Dreams.
Ernest Hartmann is also a Past President of IASD,
and Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. He’s the author of eleven books including The
Nature and Functions of Dreaming. Dr.
Hartmann writes for non-professionals as well as professionals, making his
cutting-edge research accessible and fascinating.
Finally, I am so looking forward to taking a
cup of tea with Dr. Marcia Emery, noted psychologist, academician, consultant,
and author of Dr. Marcia Emery's Intuition Workbook, The Intuitive
Healer and PowerHunch. She’s
been in my column as well, sharing her process for understanding your dreams. I’ll be attending her session on intuition
and dreams.
More than 20 dream workshops offer experiences
for putting theory into practice. It’s
hard to decide, but I think I’ll start with lucid dreams. These are the ones where part of you is aware
that the other part is dreaming. Lots of
possibilities here for speeding personal growth. From there I’ll sample dream themes across
cultures, then on to dream maps.
Auxiliary activities provide many
opportunities as well. There’s a dream
art exhibition (where I’ll serve as a volunteer monitor), a dream hike, dream
cruise with dessert, and … a dream telepathy contest! I participated in such a contest at a past
conference. It was fun. And I was pretty good at it! Perhaps you, Dear Dreamers, would like to try
your hand at dream telepathy? I will
offer an opportunity soon.
There’s not much down time in the next five
days, but that’s OK. I’ve dreamed of
this for a long time!
Sweet Dreams to You, Dear Dreamer!
SMYD
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