International Association for the Study of Dreams

Do you have a question about dreams or nightmares? Post your request on our Facebook Group Page. If you are studying dreams in depth, check out our booklist or search our pages for articles by dream experts. Popular topics include lucid dreaming, dream films, dream telepathy and our Dream FAQ. We highly recommend that you attend one of our Regional or International Conferences.

Upcoming Regional Conferences

Did the online conference leave you feeling inspired and wanting more? Ready to deepen connections and continue the dream-sharing in person? You’re in luck—three upcoming regional in-person conferences are on the horizon! These events are affordable, close to home, or a perfect excuse to travel & explore a new corner of the country—all while landing among a warm, welcoming community of like-minded dreamers. We’d love to see you there!

Northeast Regional
Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Culture, Creativity and Cosmos!
Join us in this conference to explore and celebrate the creative, social/communal, and spiritual aspects of our dreams’ messages!

Date and time
Sept 26 – 27, 2025

Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater, MA

California Regional
Santa Cruz, California

Festival of Dreams
We will bring together dreamers from all around California (and beyond!) and inspire local people from the Santa Cruz area to ignite and feed interest in the power of nighttime dreams. Or as we like to say, “Keep Santa Cruz Dreaming!”

Date and time
Oct 10 – 11, 2025

Santa Cruz Museum
of Art & History
Santa Cruz, CA

Currently there are many people around the globe reporting “Covid-19 dreams”, which reflect the unexpected situation in which we all find ourselves. Esteemed IASD members have been contributing interviews, articles and research on dreams during the pandemic. We hope you will find this compilation of information to be useful.

This portal includes photos and bios of IASD’s DAC members; a “Diversity Response” contact email; resources in the form of websites, publications, podcasts; and links to Diversity-related exercises for dreamers such as the powerful and healing dream-incubation exercise Dolores Nurss has initiated in the IASD Facebook Group.

Interest in dreams seems to be increasing all the time while, at the same time, people have to be very selective about what they want to read. The basic idea of dreamlinks is to provide links to articles on dreaming, dream research and other dream-related topics (rather than the articles themselves) to make selecting easier: one just has to click on the link to access the webpage of interest.

IASD is happy to offer online courses in the science and psychology of dreaming and in the science of lucid dreaming for those IASD members and non-members who would like to take these as part of an independent study program.

International Annual Conference

MISSION STATEMENT: INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF DREAMS IS A NON-PROFIT, INTERNATIONAL, MULTIDISCIPLINARY ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE PURE AND APPLIED INVESTIGATION OF DREAMS AND DREAMING. OUR PURPOSES ARE TO PROMOTE AN AWARENESS AND APPRECIATION OF DREAMS IN BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC ARENAS; TO ENCOURAGE RESEARCH INTO THE NATURE, FUNCTION, AND SIGNIFICANCE OF DREAMING; TO ADVANCE THE APPLICATION OF THE STUDY OF DREAMS; AND TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR THE ECLECTIC AND INTERDISCIPLINARY EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND INFORMATION.