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Events Around the World
COMING TO YOUR MAILBOX SOON: IASD'S
ANNUAL PLEDGE DRIVE BEGINS IN NOVEMBER
Give the Gift of Dreams. Upgrade
to Patron Membership. Pledge a dollar a dream. Give what you can. IASD's Annual
Pledge Drive begins this month.
MEMBERS IN THE MEDIA
IASD Past President Jean Campbell was interviewed in the
East Bay Express. To read this interesting and informative article visit
http://tinyurl.com/2cvc2wa
Hey! Check out this fabulous interview in the San Francisco Chronicle
with IASD Past President Patricia Garfield, Ph.D. at
http://tinyurl.com/2fosxww
IASD member Meredith Smith is co-hosting a show all about
nightly dreams. “Flash of Spirit” is a weekly internet radio show
co-hosted with Gillian Holloway, author of The Complete Dream Book.
The show is live every Thursday at 11am to Noon. To tune in, visit
http://tinyurl.com/22ua3sa
Individuals can call in to discuss the topic of the week or ask questions at
619.393.6718 Listeners can also download radio show podcasts. To learn more
about Meredith Smith, check out her website:
delphidreams.com
IASD Past President Alan Siegel conducted a presentation on
nightmares at the San Francisco Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts as part
of their popular
Exploratorium
After Dark series, which targets young adults, combining science, education,
and entertainment. The topic of the night was FEAR .
IASD member, Clare Jay has a PhD on the link between lucid
dreaming and creative writing and has written two dream-based novels, drawing on
lucid dreaming both as a subject and a writing technique. Dreamrunner,
and Clare Jay’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Breathing in Colour,
are both published by Little, Brown, UK, and are available from the UK Amazon:
www.amazon.co.uk
Visit Clare at www.clarejay.com
Dreamrunner: A Husband’s Dreams are his Family’s Nightmare
What happens when a loving family man starts having
uncontrollable, violent dreams which he physically enacts, endangering his wife
and child and putting his marriage in jeopardy? Set in Lisbon, this novel
explores the far-reaching effects of childhood trauma, and a family’s
determination to stick together, no matter what secrets the past might reveal.
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In This Issue:
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: “DREAMS AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY” - DEADLINE 30
NOVEMBER
JOIN IASD’S FACEBOOK PAGE AND VISIT OUR NEW FAN PAGE
CALLING ALL DREAM BLOGGERS
HELP IASD SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR ROLDUC CONFERENCE
PSIBERDREAMING 2010 MAKES HISTORY
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
CALL FOR IASD BOARD NOMINATIONS
IASD STUDENT AWARDS
FOR DREAM RELATED
RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
2010 – IASD/DSF RESEARCH GRANT AWARD WINNERS
Also in This Issue
MEMBER EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD
COMING TO YOUR MAILBOX SOON: IASD'S ANNUAL PLEDGE DRIVE BEGINS IN NOVEMBER
MEMBERS IN THE MEDIA AND ABOUT TOWN
MUTUAL DREAMING RESEARCH
JOURNALIST NEEDS YOUR DREAMS
VIDEO AND DISCUSSION EXPLORE DREAM-INSPIRED ART
IN YOUR DREAMS APP
MEMBERSHIP TOTAL: 40
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Submit your presentation proposal now
for the 28th annual conference of IASD, “Dreams and Cultural Diversity,” Rolduc
Conference Center, Kerkrade, Netherlands, 24-28 June, 2011
Registration is also now active online at
www.asdreams.org/2011
The Venue: The
conference will be held at the former monastery of Rolduc, Kerkrade, near the
boundary of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. It may be accessed by the
airports of Düsseldorf (Germany), Amsterdam and Eindhoven (the Netherlands) or
Brussels (Belgium) as well as highway networks and railway infrastructure from
all three countries.
Submission Themes: High quality proposals are invited,
particularly those that explore the conference theme, Dreams and Cultural
Diversity. We request that submissions fall into one of the following tracks:
Research & Theory; Arts & Humanities; Culture, Anthropology & History;
Education; Religion, Spirituality & Philosophy; Clinical Approaches; Dreamwork
Practices; Extraordinary, PSI and Lucid Dreams; and Conference Theme. While the
conference is in the Netherlands there are two special themes within the
conference theme track: one of them specifically Dutch and the other
specifically European. A special session is dedicated to the famous Dutch
psychiatrist, poet, lucid dreamer, and author on dreams Frederik van Eeden. A
second theme emphasizes the visions on dreams in the philosophical tradition of
Europe.
Submission Categories include: Paper Presentations; Symposia;
Panels; Workshops; Special Events or Major Presentations; Morning Dream Groups;
Hot-off-the-Press and Poster Papers
Deadline for submissions is 30 November 2010
(except for Hot off the Press and Poster Sessions which is 1 March 2011)
All Submissions Must be Made Online.
For Instructions and the Online Form go to
www.asdreams.org/2011
For all questions regarding submissions write to
submissions2011@asdreams.org
The International Association for the Study of Dreams
1672 University Avenue, Berkeley CA 94703
1-209-724-0889
office@asdreams.org
JOIN IASD’S FACEBOOK PAGE AND
VISIT OUR NEW FAN PAGE
Be sure to join our
Facebook
group page! We have 288 friends and growing! Also, we have just started an
IASD Facebook Fan Page. Ryan Hurd, IASD Board member, founder of
DreamStudies.org, and author of the new book Sleep Paralysis, will be
administering the page. Ryan’s expertise in social networking will be a great
asset to IASD’s more complete presence on the Web.
Please let your Facebook friends know about IASD’s
group page,
fan page, as well as its website
www.asdreams.org You can help us reach a lot of new people by taking a
few minutes to post the urls of these three IASD sites on your Facebook page.
CALLING ALL DREAM BLOGGERS
 Do you have a dream related blog? We will promote relevant articles and projects
using the new IASD Facebook Fan Page. Send your blog’s url to
Ryan Hurd. We are also
encouraging IASD members to post dream-related news, press about dream research
and other inspirational projects on the new Fan Page (rather than self-promotion
pieces) to help build name recognition of the IASD. Let’s make the study of
dreams go virtual.
HELP IASD SOCIAL NETWORKING
FOR ROLDUC CONFERENCE
 Now is the time to begin social networking for next year's IASD Conference in
the Netherlands. What can you do?
Social Networking involves the oldest type of advertising...direct mail, and
direct contact. Let people know that the world's top dream organization will be
in the Netherlands next year, complete with a prestigious dream art show.
If you have a mailing list of artists, or therapists, or faculty members, or
friends, and you would like IASD to use those lists to email or postal mail its
upcoming conference flyer, send it to Advertising Committee Chair Jean Campbell
at
jccampb@aol.com
If you have a list or a blog or prefer to advertise the conference yourself,
check out the
conference newsroom.On this page, you will also find mini-logos and
animated gifs for your web site.
And, of course, you will want to put IASD conference news on your Facebook page!
There are other social networking sites too, we know. Let's not neglect them
either.
PSIBERDREAMING 2010 MAKES
HISTORY
The 2010 PsiberDreaming Conference "We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On"
provided two weeks of online entertainment and psi dreaming education for 180
attendees from September 26 through October 10, 2010.
Through the help of Deirdre Barrett, Jayne Gackenbach and many others, IASD was
able to create a new web page in July preceding the PsiberDreaming Conference.
This page, discussing dreams as they appear in the blockbuster film
Inception, was the perfect lead-in for the conference.
Through this work, we were able to invite award-winning film maker Roko Belic,
who created the dream documentary companion piece in the Inception DVD
release, to Keynote the PsiberDreaming Conference.
The major innovation of this year's PsiberDreaming Conference was video. Despite
technical issues for some, like slow downloads and the unavailability of YouTube
in some parts of the globe, conference participants were most impressed with
this addition, noting that the addition of video lends a depth to conference
discussion unavailable in the past. Six out of twenty-seven presentations
provided video along with the written word.
Prior to the PsiberDreaming Conference in August, we began advertising the PDC
on the IASD YouTube Channel by putting up Joy Fatooh's video, "The Message,"
which was also a part of her presentation. Response to the IASD YouTube channel
doubled in the month prior to the conference.
Attendance at the PsiberDreaming Conference is increasingly global. In its ninth
year, the PsiberDreaming Conference drew attendees from twenty-two countries
including Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Israel and Iran, making it an almost
continuous conversation around the world. Taking advantage of a good deal from
IASD, thirty new IASD members joined the conference as a free benefit of
first-time membership.
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MUTUAL DREAMING RESEARCH
Are you 18 or over and have good dream recall? If so, you are invited to
participate in a study of mutual dreaming. The study is planned for the December
2010 to February 2011 time frame. Ideally, candidates will have experience with
dream incubation, and should be comfortable sharing dreams in a group. All
communication will take place via the Internet. Prospective participants will be
asked to complete a brief questionnaire as a basis for selection. Once selected,
further details of the project will be provided. This is a non-paid study, which
is intended to meet requirements for a master’s degree. All data collected will
be completely confidential. If you are interested in taking part, please contact
Janet Garrett at
crys2mari@yahoo.com
to receive further information.
JOURNALIST NEEDS YOUR DREAMS
Veteran journalist, Marilyn
Elias, is working on a story for a major newspaper on how dreams have been
affected by the recession.
If you
have dreams you are willing to share, please e-mail
mkelias@verizon.net as soon as possible.
VIDEO AND DISCUSSION EXPLORE DREAM-INSPIRED ART
“Art Through Time: A Global View” is a 13-part television series, with episode 2
focusing on art inspired by dreams. It is airing on American public television
and available globally online.
The series’ funder, Annenberg Media, is providing a range of materials
(discussion guide, transcript, interactive comparisons) to facilitate group
exploration of the art and its meanings. This can be a great basis for a local
IASD activity with your friends, family, or organizations The episode 2 “Dreams”
video and downloadable materials are available by
clicking here.
If you live in the United States, you can check your TV listings for when the
series will air on your local PBS station. Consider going to the station’s
Website and posting a comment about the episode – and include these links to
IASD’s online art galleries:
PsiberDreaming Gallery
Annual
Conference Exhibitions
IN YOUR DREAMS APP
IASD member, Belinda Recio, has created a dream App! Every night, our dreams
carry messages from our unconscious that can shed light on aspects of our waking
lives. Developed in consultation with an analytic psychologist, In Your Dreams™
helps you to explore the meaning of your dreams with an interactive dream
journal that works hand-in-hand with beautifully illustrated and comprehensively
researched dream symbol cards. Also included in the app is an illustrated e-book
that covers the history and science of dreaming, symbols and archetypes, and
additional guidance for using the app for dream interpretation. For more
information, please visit:
www.inyourdreams.mobi or the
iTunes App Store
MEMBERSHIP TOTAL: 40
OCTOBER NEW MEMBERS: 17
Anonymous: 2
Ira Barouch
Alina Christian
Monique Cohenka
MariAnn Fisher
Mogenns Gilmour
Fillip Kovacevic
Gunhild Lorenzen
Jennifer Mann
Mark Muhlhauser
Pamela Muller
Frank Pascoe
Derek Ralston
Kim Salinger
Joan Schroeder
Nancy Weiss
OCTOBER RENEWING MEMBERS: 23
Anonymous: 3
Bruce Blair
Francoise Cloutier
Carolyn Cobb
Barbara D’amato
Cynthia Edson
Judy Gardiner
Ben Hammett
Rita Hildebrandt
Joseph Howell
Therezinha Leite
Holly Paiva
J. William Pezick
Hallifridur Ragnheidardottir
Peter Ribbens
Lise Robilliard
Lauren Schneider
Laurie Schwartz
Susan Stember
Annie Wattles
Antonio Zadra
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 You might be interested to know that IASD
enjoys a fairly stable community of renewing members. In my capacity as
Membership Chair, I will soon be contacting many of these long-term members to
ascertain if there is a set of core motives or values that might help us locate
other people with similar interests and values.
I also want to contact
non-renewing members to find out what they were
originally looking for, but did not find, so that we may consider changing our
approach somewhat to meet the needs of a more diverse group. Regardless of
whether I contact you or not, I would appreciate it if you would take the
liberty of contacting me and letting me know what means most to
you about your IASD membership. Do the conferences, publications, or Member
Pages prompt you to join or renew, or does something less tangible––such as a
sense of belonging to a group of like-minded and like-hearted people––figure
into your “core motive” for belonging to IASD? If so, can you describe it?
Hearing your answer to this question could make a difference in our efforts to
serve the membership in the future.
In addition to contacting me about this research question, please feel free to
contact me or Jeff Vovillia at any time with membership questions or concerns.
We always welcome new volunteers. You are the future leaders of IASD and we want
your energy, help, and visions.
Scott Sparrow, Membership Chair:
kingfisher@lagunamadre.net
Jeff Vovillia, Membership Assistant:
jallenvov@yahoo.com
Member Pages Soon to be Updated
I mentioned last month that we will soon be purging non-members from the Member
Pages. My goal is to have all of the Member Pages current by the end of 2010,
and then pruned on a monthly basis, thereafter. Non-renewing members will be
alerted to the imminent deletion of their Member Pages. Given that the member
rank highly on Google whenever someone searches by name, we hope to underscore
the value of them as a crucial part of a member’s personal and professional web
presence. With this in mind, please keep your Member Page updated––and most
importantly renew your membership so your page will stay on the website!
Spotlight on Eastern Massachusetts
Curtiss Hoffman, IASD Regional Representative
I am a field archaeologist by training, conversant in the archaeology of both
the ancient Middle East and Northeastern North America – most of my research has
been in the latter area. In addition, I have been trained in a number of
spiritual disciplines, both Eastern and Western. I teach archaeology, mythology,
culture and consciousness, global human issues, and a variety of other
undergraduate courses at Bridgewater State University in southeastern
Massachusetts, where I am a professor in the Anthropology Department.
My interest in dreams began when I studied Jung’s writings during my
undergraduate and graduate years. I am particularly interested in archetypal
symbols and the way in which they affect our consciousness both in dreams and in
waking life. My archaeological interests have converged with this, for the site
on which I am currently working contains a wealth of material related to Native
American symbolic life: quartz crystals, stones which produce red, black, and
yellow pigments, and other sacred items.
I have been actively involved in group dreamwork since 1992, when I undertook an
experiment with two other dreamworkers, sharing by mail all of our remembered
dreams on a monthly basis. This eventually led me to IASD, at the 1997
conference in Asheville.
Since that time I have become increasingly involved in this organization,
serving as host for the 2006 conference and as program chair for 2009 and 2010,
and on its Board since 2004. I am also the chair of its Student Awards
Committee.
I have presented papers and workshops on a wide diversity of topics at both the
annual meetings and the PsiberDreaming conferences, where I co-host the popular
Outer Inn. I am involved with four monthly dream groups: two which meet in
person and two on-line. The first of the in-person groups was originally founded
by Edith Gilmore, but now she has turned over the leadership of it to a rotating
group of experienced dreamworkers, myself included. The second consists mainly
of my former students at Bridgewater, and I facilitate that. The on-line groups
are IASD’s Dream Activism and Dolores Nurss’s Faery Exploration International.
II am looking forward to planning a regional meeting in the Boston area in the
Fall of 2012, as well as further participation at IASD events, both in person
and on-line.
Regional Representatives
Please check the IASD website for up-to-date names and contact information of
the Regional Representative in your area. The
Regional
Representative webpage is divided into regions, making your search more
user-friendly. If you do not have a Regional Rep for your area, consider
becoming that Rep yourself! You could serve an important networking role for
IASD. To become a Regional Rep, contact Scott Sparrow, Membership Chair:
kingfisher@lagunamadre.net
CALL FOR IASD BOARD
NOMINATIONS
This is a reminder that the IASD Nominating Committee is
presently seeking recommendations for people to serve on the Board of Directors
for a three-year term beginning July 2011. Nominees should be members in good
standing who are willing to serve. Please send your recommendations to the
Nominating Committee Chair, Robert Gongloff
robertgongloff@earthlink.net
by 31 December 2010. And you may nominate yourself! If you are interested in
taking a more active role in supporting our mission to educate people throughout
the world on dreams and dreaming, we want to hear from you.
IASD STUDENT AWARDS
FOR DREAM RELATED
RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
We are pleased to announce that an anonymous donor who has
generously provided funding for the Student Research Award for the past 6 years
has graciously agreed to provide matching funds for the 2011 competition! The
IASD Board of Trustees will provide the balance of funds.
As in previous years, there will be two $500 awards. The first is for the best
student submission of original scientific research on dreams and dreaming. The
second is for the best submission of original historical, literary, artistic, or
theoretical research. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to submit
papers.
All participants must submit their presentations in electronic form, preferably
through email to office@asdreams.org or if necessary by mailing the files,
copied to a CD or a DVD, to the IASD office by March 15, 2011.
IASD-Student Research
1672 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94703 USA
Mark on any mailed box "OK to leave on left porch."
Text submissions must not exceed 6,000 words. Participants should submit text in
MS Word, and artwork in .jpg, .tif, or .pdf formats.
Participants may also electronically submit videos in AVI
formats, or music in MIDI or MPS formats. In the case of papers with multiple
authors -- in terms of the ideas presented as well as the description of the
results -- the contestant must indicate clearly, in either the text of the paper
or in an accompanying letter, what portions are the submitter’s work.
Submissions must include a copy of your student ID. Alternatively, you can fax a
copy to the IASD Office at 1-209-724-0889, or scan and email an attachment to
office@asdreams.org
Include a note or cover letter that this is for the IASD Student Research Award.
Participants must specify for which of the two awards they are applying.
Winners will be announced at the IASD Annual Meeting, which will be held at the
Rolduc Conference Center in the Netherlands, June24 - 28, during the General
Membership meeting. Check the schedule of conference events to find out the
exact date.
Curtiss Hoffman
Student Research Awards Chair
2010 – IASD/DSF RESEARCH GRANT AWARD WINNERS
 The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) in conjunction with
the DreamScience ™ foundation (DSF) is proud to announce the following research
grant award winners for 2010. There were five finalists out of sixteen proposals
received. Unfortunately we were only able to fund or partially fund three. We
thank all sixteen researchers who contributed very excellent proposals in 2010,
we hope your research efforts will continue. Congratulations to these three
awardees:
1) “The incorporation of emotional memories into dreams: A link to memory
consolidation.” A $4,000 grant is awarded to Caroline Horton, Ph.D. to perform a
study which will measure the emotionality of daily events (autobiographical
memories) that are subsequently incorporated into dreams and determine if the
incorporation into dreams provides a memory advantage. This study would provide
valuable support to various neurological theories that the emotionality of a
memory influences its consolidation during sleep and dreaming. The study will be
performed at Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK.
2) “Pregnancy dreams: A study of the association between maternal
representations in dreams of pregnant women and postnatal depression.” A $1,000
grant is awarded to the research team of Jessica Lara-Carrasco, M.Sc. and Ph.D.
Candidate, Tore Nielsen, Ph.D. (director) and Valérie Simard, Ph.D.
(co-director). The study is aimed at assessing dream and nightmare recall in
pregnant women and whether dream content facilitates psychological adaptation
during the transition to motherhood, and perhaps whether dreams have the
capacity to predict postnatal depression. The research will be performed at the
Centre d’étude du sommeil, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Département de
psychologie, Université de Montréal.
3) “The threat simulation theory and genetics of dreaming: Heredity of
nightmares.” A $2,000 grant is awarded to Nils Sandman M.Sc., supervised by
Katja Valli, Ph.D. and Professor Antti Revonsuo / Centre for Cognitive
Neuroscience, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Philosophy, University of
Turku, Finland. The research investigates the hypotheses of the genetic basis of
dreaming (that people´s tendency to dream of threatening situations has a
genetic component) as the threat simulation theory implies. This study aims to
identify those regions of the human genome that affect the tendency to
experience nightmares. This seed grant is aimed at completing the statistical
population survey data analysis, in preparation for the analysis of the genetic
data.
The other two finalists who had highly rated proposals but that we,
unfortunately, were unable to fund were:
1) “Mastering lucidity: Ethnographic perspectives of lucid dreaming in shamanic
practices identify the types and uses of trance and dream states within
Blackfoot shamanism.” This proposal, by Shayne Dahl, at Trent University in
Canada, was aimed at identifying the types and uses of trance and dream states
within Blackfoot shamanism and to compare the Blackfoot trance and dream
theories to those of other shamanic cultures.
2) “Holistic versus analytical perception in dreams: A comparison between
Japanese culture and American culture.” This proposal, by Misa Tsuruta, MA, of
the New School for Social Research in New York, was aimed at examining cultural
differences between the American and Japanese cultures that might be represented
in dreams. More specifically, assuming Easterners tend to process contextual and
broader information, while Westerners pay less attention to such information,
the study will determine if the dreamer pays attention to a focal object or to
environment and background.
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TThe IASD i>Dream-News provides late-breaking news, IASD conference
information and links to new articles on the IASD Website. Please forward this
IASD Dream-News to interested friends and colleagues so they can also
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E-mail Submissions by the first of each month to: Jacquie Lewis, Ph.D., IASD
Dream-News Editor
jacquie@asdreams.org
THE FINE PRINT: IASD DREAM-NEWS
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The deadline for the IASD Dream-News is the first of each month.
Submissions by IASD members should be e-mailed to the IASD Dream-News
editor.
Please limit your articles to 200 words.
The article title should be entirely in capital letters.
Any article sub-headings should be in upper and lowercase.
Submissions can be submitted in the body of an email message or as an
attachment. When sending attachments please include, in the body of the e-mail,
your name and an indication that it is an IASD Dream-News item.
Acceptable files for attachments are Microsoft Word and Rich Text Format (RTF).
E-News articles should be submitted in the following format: Verdana font,
12pt., and black ink. No words should be bolded, underlined, or italicized. Feel
free to include photos as attachments.
Do not imbed photos or logos in text.
The editor reserves the right to shorten and/or edit articles for clarity and to
fit space restrictions. Articles
over 200 words may be heavily edited.
IASD reserves the right to accept or reject any article.
IASD members who would like to inform other members of their presentations,
lectures, or workshops should submit their names, the titles of the events, the
dates, and locations. Please also include either an e-mail address, website, or
phone number so that IASD members can contact you for additional information.
Submission of book tour dates and lecture series are limited to the following:
individual, contact information, dates, cities, states, or countries.
The IASD Dream-News accepts notices on member media interviews and
appearances. Members should include the IASD member name, the name of the show
or publication, the date, and the topic discussed.
IASD holds no responsibility for the content or quality of non-sponsored IASD
events or individual member lectures, presentations, or workshops.
To subscribe to the IASD Dream-News:
http://enews.kintera.org/
To change your E-mail address:
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Please direct any technical problems to Richard Wilkerson at the IASD office:
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IASD Website:
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