2008 Student Award for research or creative work on dreams

 

 

The winners of the 2007 Student Paper Competition were announced during the IASD 24th Annual International Conference, July 1, 2007 at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California.

Category I - Quantitative Research (Science)

Winner: Peter Simor, "Emotional Regulation in Dreaming"

Runner-up: Miloslava Kozmova, "Body Image and Anorexia Nervosa"

Category II - Qualitative Research (Arts, Literature, Humanities)

Winner: Patricia Spangler, "Therapist Dreams about Clients: A Qualitative Investigation of Themes, Exploration, and Use"

Runner-up: Melody Conroy, "Unraveling the Darkness: Dreams in Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur"

 

 

Educational Material
and Programs from IASD

The International Association for the Study of Dreams has an educational mission to provide the most accurate and sophisticated information on dream research and to provide forums for the display and exchange of this information. While we feel this is best demonstrated by our International Conference and our publications Dreaming and Dream Time we are also exploring the use of the Internet for this goal.  Audio Tapes from past conferences are available at The Shopping Mall

How do I find the information I want on dreams?

If you don't find what you want on this page or the index pages, stop in at the IASD Online Help Desk (or select Education - help from our main menu).

Are you in grade K-12 and trying to find out some simple answers to your questions about dreams? Read our Common Questions About Dreams file. You will also want to run your own experiments at school or with friends with the help of our Science Project suggestions.

Nightmares

Perhaps you or your children are having nightmares? Be sure to read the facts in All About Nightmares

Books

If you need a good book on dreams, but don't know where to start, we have a short list of book suggestions from many of the top researchers and dream explorers in the world. Whether you are interested in dream interpretation, lucid dreaming, mutual dreaming, the science of dreaming, dreaming in other cultures, dream journal keeping, dream inspired activates, or the history of dreams and dreaming, there is a book here for you. A longer list is also available and links to collections of thousands of books and research articles in dreams and dreaming.

If you would like to order any of the books, you will find the list available in the IASD Bookshop .

Research

If you are a doing research in the field of dreams, we invite you to submit your work for review and publication to the journal Dreaming or the Dream Time publication.

FAQ

We would also like to invite you to join in our Dream FAQ project to build a comprehensive online questions and answer file on dreams and dreaming. The dream answers in this file will be carefully chosen and edited by the IASD community.

Articles Online

We have a wide variety of published material on dreams and dreaming from both our peer reviewed journal Dreaming, the Dream Time publication and other IASD publications. All of the material is available from the main office. Many of the articles are now available online as well.

Student - Teachers Pages

For teachers, a whole section on how to teach students about dreams and dreaming. For Students, exercises and facts about sleep and dreams.  Don't miss the Student - Teachers Forum and the tapes available from The Shopping Mall.  

Graduate Studies and CE Continuing Education Units.

If you offer dream education at a graduate level in conjunction with an educational institution, we would like to hear from you. For more on this, read Graduate Studies Also, our conferences offer credits in continuing education.

What does my dream mean?

We feel the answer to the meaning and full value of specific personal dreams cannot be adequately handled online at this time.
 However, we respect many of the different viewpoints and traditions of dream interpretation and support studies in this area.
Our recommendation is to:

1.  Please read our Ethics Statement for a suggested guide in handling all interpretive and dream exploration approaches.
2. Please explore our Suggested Books list
3. Read the Common Questions file. 
4. The best education in dreamwork you can get is through the IASD International Conferences. Please plan to attend this year!
5. If you can't get to the conference we also have a fabulous collection of Audio Tapes from nearly two decades of International Conferences.
6. Become a Member! This will entitle you many benefits on dreamwork, including the journal, the magazine, the newsletter and many, many online activities and groups. 

I'm still completely lost!

Still can't find the answer to your question? Post your question on our Bulletin Board. Please, questions about dreams and dreaming in general only. There is no interpretation of individual dreams provided on this site.