Bjo Ashwill is a counselor, dreamworker, writer and creator of DreamSpinner software. She has presented information on Content analysis of dream narrative using DreamSpinner at four different ASD conferences. Bjo has appeared in the Health Discovery Channel video, The Science of Dreams, 2002.

Sandy Ginsberg, M.S., L.M.F.T. provides psychotherapy for individuals, couples, families and groups. Her emphasis is in accessing creativity to help in healing through dreamwork and art therapy techniques. Sandy has studied Dreaming and Dreamworking for the last 25 years. Her motto is, "Helping you to find yourself the way you want to be."

E. W. Kellogg III earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Duke University. A proficient lucid dreamer, he has a long-standing interest in the phenomenology of dreaming. He has presented numerous papers and workshops on such topics as the lucidity continuum, lucid dream healing, and mutual dreaming. He hosts the Paranormal Phenomena Forum on the ASD website, and in the Fall of 2002,organized and hosted ASD’s First Online Psiber Dreaming Conference.

Linda Lane Magallón, M.B.A., is a founder of ASD, Fly-By-Night Club (research group) and Bay Area Dreamworkers Group (with Fred Olsen). She produced the *Dream Network Bulletin,* created the diagrams in her book, "Mutual Dreaming," constructed ASD "Computer Cafe" web pages and fashioned targets for the Dream Telepathy Contest.

Cynthia Pearson (chair),* has chaired the "Long Term Journal Keeping" panels for five years and presides over Dreamjournalist.com, "A Website for People Who Write Down Their Dreams." She is the author of "The Practical Psychic," "Parting Company: Understanding the Loss of a Loved One" and the forthcoming "Dreaming of the Dead."

Gloria Sturzenacker is a journalist, designer, and teacher. She's developed a symbol system, Inner Guide Mapping, to track the multilayered interaction of internal and external experience. During ASD's Online PsiberDreaming Conference last fall, she presented a paper titled, "Long-Term Coherence as a Growth Tip of Human Evolution."

At ASD-13, Dennis Schmidt chaired the first panel on long-term journaling, framing and exploring the personal dream journal as the fundamental instrument of dream study. The concepts and issues that emerge from this appreciation are still as Dennis described them in 1996:

"…In the tradition of the naturalists whose patient observations prepared the ways to elegant understandings of physics, chemistry, and biology, home journal keepers record and discover events and regularities that astonish and enlighten…Scholar and journal-keeper alike need to recognize that the personal journal is a uniquely sensitive instrument that may enlighten not only the individual dreamer but the whole field of dream study."

Since then, long-term journalers have met at each ASD conference to discuss long term record keeping and continue our cross-fertilization. In 2003, panelists will discuss techniques that help to make dream records more true to the experiences they describe, and address how their observations about dreaming have influenced their world views

Bjo Ashwill will pose the question, "What Do We Really See in Our Dreams?" Often we say in our narratives that the scene was "sort of" a familiar kitchen, back yard or office. But "even a building I describe in my narrative as my home is often missing many details and is not accurate," Bjo notes. She has been attempting to create digital graphic images of dreams that are exact in terms of the dream architecture¾ including landscapes, buildings, and objects. She will discuss these efforts, and share her theory that dream images are efficiently economical, making the various points of the dream with selected parts.

In "Harvesting the Fruits of Dreaming Through Documenting," Sandy Ginsberg will describe how the journey along her life's path has had quite an unfolding nature lately. Decisions about her life events have always been well informed by her dreaming. Now, more than ever, the nature of documenting her dreams has given further depth to her understanding of the richness of the messages from her dreaming.

In "Next Stop: The Twilight Zone," Ed Kellogg will discuss how, sooner or later, long term journalers experience dreams that do not fit into the usual categories. Realizing the limitations of our conceptual frameworks can take awhile, because in dreams we "see what we expect to see," identifying what we experience in terms of the familiar objects and processes of waking physical reality. And after having written down a dream, even experienced dreamworkers may forget that they no longer work with a dream as such, but with a dream report, a subjective abstraction made of words. But what happens when a long term journaler decides to focus on the dream as such, and to describe what occurs in as unbiased a way as he can? In the author’s case, it soon became clear that he’d crossed over "into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas . . . The Twilight Zone."

In describing "The Picture Journal," Linda Magallón will explain that she didn’t have to be an accomplished artist to start a picture journal¾ her first illustrations were images cut from magazines. From those simple beginnings came further creativity: graphic arts, poetry and, most importantly, brand new dreams. She discovered that a picture journal isn’t just a record of past pillow programs; it’s eye candy that inspires future flights of fantasy.

Cynthia Pearson will moderate the panel and facilitate discussion with audience members following the presentations. She will also discuss "Aspects of the Dream," with apologies to E.M.Forster. In his Aspects of the Novel, Forster defines story as "a narrative of events arranged in their time sequence." When she began to write fiction several years ago, Cynthia gradually noticed that the notion of story has been a pervasive influence in her efforts to record dreams. This "narrative imperative" can be a stumbling block to accurate dream reporting, but it also provides structure for observations of long-term coherence between dreams and waking life.

Reminded by ASD's PsiberDreaming Conference just how powerful a force dreaming is, Gloria Sturzenacker entered a time of "spiritual emergency," torn between two ways of being. Two dreams ensued, one for each side of this duality. Following the dreams has been a research process that combines the intentional and the serendipitous. Getting down the research results has produced a record whose own form evokes the potential resolution.

Whatever facet we focus on during our panel presentations, our ultimate objective remains constant-- to stress the importance of journal keeping, and to highlight the unique and invaluable instrument that is the dream journal.