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.

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Please join us in the magical dream-town of Ashland in 2026 for the 43rd annual conference of the IASD. In addition to our traditional conference programming, our Ashland hosts, Angel Morgan and Kelly Bulkeley, have arranged a variety of special events and featured tracks to embrace a conference theme of Dreaming, Health, and Wellness in the vibrant atmosphere of Ashland.

You will be in good company with world-renowned keynote speakers and more than 100 presenters from around the globe, offering lectures, symposia, panels, workshops, and morning dream groups, in a multidisciplinary program including the scientific, psychological, spiritual, artistic, healing, lucid, extraordinary, and multicultural aspects of dreaming.

Strangers of the Night: What Dream Characters Reveal About Us

Some dream characters behave as if they have minds of their own, debating with us, surprising us, even intimidating or flirting with us. Drawing on decades of personal dream encounters and scientific research, this talk explores how engaging with these figures can reveal the hidden workings of the dreaming mind, foster creativity, and open a fresh window onto our unconscious imagination.

Antonio Zadra holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is a well-known sleep and dream researcher and professor of psychology at the Université de Montréal. His research interests include recurrent dreams, nightmares, lucid dreaming and sleepwalking. He is the co-author of When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds and the author of The Dreamkeepers, a suspense novel blending sleep science with dream mythology.

Click to register for the FREE DREAM RESEARCH TALK with Antonio Zadra, PhD.

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.