06/06/2024
“I dream therefore I am?” Discuss!
Please post your questions in the conference reception box for our AI philosophy panel 9.15am Tuesday morning Dream Research Institute
Everything you want to know about dreams
“I dream therefore I am?” Discuss!
Please post your questions in the conference reception box for our AI philosophy panel 9.15am Tuesday morning Dream Research Institute
The latest episode of is all about taking care of your sleep and welcoming dreams. Listen now on Apple, Spotify and more!
Insta:
FB: .payne.33
SERIES 4 EPISODE 3 – HOW TO SLEEP TO DREAM
Dave and Laura explore techniques and practices to improve sleep and enhance dream recall.
Insta:
FB: .payne.33
The first new episode of 2024 dropped this morning! The warm and engaging Ryan Hurd talks to us about all things lucid dreaming and his own life in dream research, education and exploration.
We’re docking the Dream Boat for a little end-of-year break, so this week’s episode is a recurrence of Series 1, Episode 3: Symbols in Dreams with Dr Nigel Hamilton. We’ll be back with a new episode on the 11th of January! Thanks for listening, and Happy New Year!
Series 3, Episode 1 – Turning Nightmares into Post-Traumatic Spiritual Growth with Linda Yael Schiller
What can you do when you wake up screaming, having revisited the harrowing scenes of a trauma which still haunts your nightmares? Linda Yael Schiller from Boston in the USA has developed the GAIA (Guided Active Imagination Approach) method to stop the endless cycle of nightmares for war trauma survivors and for anyone who suffers disturbing nightmares.
We have talked about parasomnias - the official term for a variety of disturbed sleep patterns – and nightmare treatment with other guests, and in this episode, Laura and Dave talk to Linda about her work with PTSD and dreams, and how GAIA brings together best-practice trauma treatment and Jungian active imagination to turn PTSD into PTSG: Post-Traumatic Spiritual Growth.
Linda’s method is systematic and clear, and has a lot in common with the Waking Dream Process, for those who know it or have listened to our episode about it. She takes Dave through the GAIA method in one of his dreams… listen to find out what they discover!
Ways to find out about and contact Linda:
Linda’s website: lindayaelschiller.com
Facebook: facebook.com/moderndreamwork
Instagram: instagram.com/lindayschiller22
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/linda-yael-schiller-msw-licsw-305896118
Contact Linda: [email protected]
Linda’s book:
PTSDreams – also available on Amazon
ptsdreams.com
Dream Research Institute
It’s the end of the second series already! It’s our twentieth episode and time to answer some more of your questions (and in one case, have a second go at a previous question).
**TRIGGER WARNING** This episode contains references to s*xual assault and s*xual abuse.
In this episode:
- I think I’m having nightmares but I don’t remember them.
- Can people with aphantasia (who don’t see mental images) dream, and work with their dreams?
- My dreams are often set in places from my childhood. Is this common and what does it mean?
And Dave puts a question from an unusual source to Laura, which opens up a conversation about some of the subjects we’re going to be looking at in Series 3 and beyond!
Let us know what you think, and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast!
Instagram
FaceBook
Twitter
DRI website: driccpe.org.uk/contact
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!
Keep dreaming, and keep sharing your dreams!
Credits
Recorded by Sophie, Lev and Ella at the Boat Pod https://theboatpod.com
Edited by James Ede at Be Heard https://beheard.org.uk
Podcast Artwork Design by Kat Seager Design
Music:
Adventures by A Himitsu https://soundcloud.com/a-himitsu
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/2Pj0MtT
Music released by Argofox https://youtu.be/8BXNwnxaVQE
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/MkNeIUgNPQ8
Laura Payne Dream Research Institute
A lighter look at alchemical operations. (4/7)
Which is your favourite? Got any suggestions for more?
Dream images may indicate certain specific stages or operations in the alchemical process of transformation. In Season 2, Episode 2 of DRI's The Dream Boat podcast, Dave and Laura give a brief overview of alchemy as a symbolic system that describes the stages of change in the psyche, originally identified by Jung in his reading of medieval mystical texts and still used as a model for transformations in consciousness in analytical psychology and psychotherapy.
Laura Payne International Association For The Study Of Dreams
A lighter look at alchemical operations. (3/7)
Which is your favourite? Got any suggestions for more?
Dream images may indicate certain specific stages or operations in the alchemical process of transformation. In Season 2, Episode 2 of DRI's The Dream Boat podcast, Dave and Laura give a brief overview of alchemy as a symbolic system that describes the stages of change in the psyche, originally identified by Jung in his reading of medieval mystical texts and still used as a model for transformations in consciousness in analytical psychology and psychotherapy.
Laura Payne International Association For The Study Of Dreams
A lighter look at alchemical operations. (7/7)
Which is your favourite? Got any suggestions for more?
Dream images may indicate certain specific stages or operations in the alchemical process of transformation. In Season 2, Episode 2 of DRI's The Dream Boat podcast, Dave and Laura give a brief overview of alchemy as a symbolic system that describes the stages of change in the psyche, originally identified by Jung in his reading of medieval mystical texts and still used as a model for transformations in consciousness in analytical psychology and psychotherapy.
Laura Payne International Association For The Study Of Dreams
A lighter look at alchemical operations. (6/7)
Which is your favourite? Got any suggestions for more?
Dream images may indicate certain specific stages or operations in the alchemical process of transformation. In Season 2, Episode 2 of DRI's The Dream Boat podcast, Dave and Laura give a brief overview of alchemy as a symbolic system that describes the stages of change in the psyche, originally identified by Jung in his reading of medieval mystical texts and still used as a model for transformations in consciousness in analytical psychology and psychotherapy.
Laura Payne International Association For The Study Of Dreams
A lighter look at alchemical operations. (2/7)
Which is your favourite? Got any suggestions for more?
Dream images may indicate certain specific stages or operations in the alchemical process of transformation. In Season 2, Episode 2 of DRI's The Dream Boat podcast, Dave and Laura give a brief overview of alchemy as a symbolic system that describes the stages of change in the psyche, originally identified by Jung in his reading of medieval mystical texts and still used as a model for transformations in consciousness in analytical psychology and psychotherapy.
Payne International Association For The Study Of Dreams
A lighter look at alchemical operations. (1/7)
Which is your favourite? Got any suggestions for more?
Dream images may indicate certain specific stages or operations in the alchemical process of transformation. In Season 2, Episode 2 of DRI's The Dream Boat podcast, Dave and Laura give a brief overview of alchemy as a symbolic system that describes the stages of change in the psyche, originally identified by Jung in his reading of medieval mystical texts and still used as a model for transformations in consciousness in analytical psychology and psychotherapy.
Laura Payne International Association For The Study Of Dreams
A lighter look at alchemical operations.
Which is your favourite? Got any suggestions for more?
In Season 2, Episode 2 of the Dream Boat, Dave and Laura give a brief overview of alchemy as a symbolic system that describes the stages of change in the psyche, originally identified by Jung in his reading of medieval mystical texts and still used as a model for psychological change in analytical psychology and psychotherapy.
Dream Research Institute International Association for the Study of Dreams
Professor Michael Schredl talks to Dave and Laura about how you can get control of your nightmares and improve your sleep... and your life.
Laura Payne Dream Research Institute International Association For The Study Of Dreams DreamsID
Fire, floods, s*x and death. Flying and falling. Coming apart and putting the pieces back together to be more of yourself than you ever were before. Finding the gold within. Welcome to your dreams of personal transformation, and the symbolic system that can guide you through them: Alchemy.
If you’ve heard of it, it might be from Harry Potter or maybe as the mystical antecedent to modern chemistry. Or maybe you’ve heard Laura and Dave talking about it on the Dream Boat!
In this episode, they give a brief overview of alchemy as a symbolic system that describes the stages of change in the psyche, originally identified by Jung in his reading of medieval mystical texts and still used in analytical psychology and taught on the Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Counselling and Psychotherapy at CCPE in London.
Included in this discussion:
The 4 stages of the alchemical model
Seven major “operations” or processes that help change occur
Images in dreams that signify the stages and operations
The symbolic elements – earth, water, fire and air – and the aspects of consciousness they represent
And the Dream of the Week is a magical dream of transformation aided by a shaman in the desert under a starry sky, leading to the emergence of a golden snake.
Don’t you wish you had dreams like that? Your dreams are fascinating, too. Send dreams to share as Dream of the Week or in our Dream Lab
Do you have psychic or telepathic or premonition dreams? This week we interview leading psychic & podcaster
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-dream-boat/id1674047794?i=1000620977427
Did you see this one coming? It’s the first episode of our second season, and Dave and Laura welcome on board acclaimed channel, psychic medium, and writer Natalie Miles, author of You Are Intuitive. Trust Your Truth. Take Back Your Power and host of popular podcasts So You Think You’re Intuitive and Things That Die. She is also Laura’s daughter!
Natalie talks about her experience of psychic, premonition and telepathic dreams. Many people report they’ve experienced these phenomena, but what do we think is actually going on? Natalie discusses her work and her own relationship with the dream state from childhood water dreams through recurring psychic dreams and her relationship to the premonition dream state. The team talk about the Jungian notion of the shared collective consciousness and how our dreams reveal our connection to a broader awareness of change and events, be it in our families or the world at large.
Along the way, they touch on
• Freud and Jung’s views on psychic space
• Lucid psychic dreaming
• Dreaming of the dead and the messages we hear from them
• Predictive dreams and symbolism
• The dreaming intuitive voice
• Telepathic dreaming amongst family members and friends
And for the dream of the week, Natalie discusses how she simultaneously dreams the same dreams as her sister.
In this episode:
Natalie Miles: https://natalie-miles.com/
“Things That Die” podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/things-that-die/id1690225092
“So You Think You’re Intuitive” podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/so-you-think-youre-intuitive-podcast/id1439836108
Natalie’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamnataliemiles
Natalie’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NatalieMiles
Let us know what you think, and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast!
Keep dreaming, and keep sharing your dreams!
Laura Payne The BoAt Pod Dream Research Institute
Last few days left to join Dream Research Institute for just £10 a year - offer closes end of June - for deals, newsletters and a great Dream community!
🙏 for finding us
🙏 for listening
🙏 for coming on this voyage with us!
We can't believe we've already completed our first series of 10 episodes, and we're very grateful to our guests and colleagues for helping us bring this dream to life!
The BoAt Pod beheard.org.uk Dream Research Institute ccpe.org.uk
There's so much more to explore, and we just can't wait, so Series 2 starts in 2 weeks, on July 13th.
It’s the final episode of the first series! Laura and Dave look back on the journey so far and answer the questions you have sent in.
Thank you to everyone who sent in a question. If you’ve got a question or a dream you’d like to share, message us!
Dream Research Institute The BoAt Pod
Don’t forget to book your tickets for the global tour of Profs Mark Blagrove and Julia Lockheart coming to London on July 15 with their amazing Dreaming Interpretation Event. And listen to them discuss their project on the Dream Boat. Dream Research Institute
https://dreamsid.com/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dreamsid-the-science-and-art-of-dreaming-dream-exploration-and-painting-tickets-565628117927?aff=oddtdtcreator
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-dream-boat/id1674047794?i=1000613473019
Beauchamp Lodge, 2 Warwick Crescent
London
W26NE
https://driccpe.org.uk/, https://open.spotify.com/show/1UELrYL89wdWAZxEYTQ1Ie, https://sites.libsyn.com/459600/dreamboat
Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Dream Boat podcast posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Send a message to The Dream Boat podcast:
Have you listened to our latest episode? Dave, Laura, and our newest member Maria get together to discuss their highlights from the 2024 IASD Annual Dream Conference… which was rather dreamy! Were you also there? Let us know your own highlights below in the comments! @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream
Laura and Dave go head-to-head with an AI trained to interpret dreams using Freudian and Jungian perspectives. Who (or what) comes up with the most meaningful interpretations? You decide! Elswhere is a dream journaling app that offers interpretations powered by a GPT (generative pre-trained transformer), otherwise known as a generative AI. Kelly Bulkeley and Sheldon Juncker have been instrumental in creating and training Elsewhere to interpret dreams, and they come aboard the Dream Boat to discuss the intersection of technology and dreaming, specifically the use of AI in dream interpretation. #dream #dreams #recurringdream #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #gpt #individuation Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream @kelly.bulkeley @elsewheredreams FB: @associationforstudyofdreams @laura.payne.33 @dreamresearchinstitute @elsewheredreams
Laura and Dave go head-to-head with an AI trained to interpret dreams using Freudian and Jungian perspectives. Who (or what) comes up with the most meaningful interpretations? You decide! Elswhere is a dream journaling app that offers interpretations powered by a GPT (generative pre-trained transformer), otherwise known as a generative AI. Kelly Bulkeley and Sheldon Juncker have been instrumental in creating and training Elsewhere to interpret dreams, and they come aboard the Dream Boat to discuss the intersection of technology and dreaming, specifically the use of AI in dream interpretation. #dream #dreams #recurringdream #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #gpt #individuation Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream @kelly.bulkeley @elsewheredreams FB: @associationforstudyofdreams @laura.payne.33 @dreamresearchinstitute @elsewheredreams
A replay of our interview with Robert Waggoner to celebrate World Lucid Dreaming Day! #dream #dreams #recurringdream #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork
Series 3, Episode 9 – Q&A In this episode, Laura and Dave answer more of your questions. Questions like, why do certain things enter our dreams but not others? Or, what do shoes symbolise? They also delve into the topics of prophetic and déjà vu dreaming, examining the mysterious nature of these experiences. We love to hear your questions. They always get us thinking! Your dreams are fascinating, too! Get in touch and tell us a dream you’d like to share. #dream #dreams #recurringdream #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork #symbolism Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream FB: @associationforstudyofdreams @laura.payne.33 @dreamresearchinstitute
Series 3, Episode 8 – Laurel & Hardy and a piano on the stairs – Dream Lab (B) with Damien Moore Dream Answers to Dream Questions! A 14-year-old boy who was curious about his dreams asked two questions before going to sleep: “Can you dream in colour or in black and white?” and, “Do you need light to dream?” Laurel and Hardy helped bring answers that night, and those answers were unequivocal, funny, and meaningful, and a few decades later Damien Moore has come on the podcast to talk about that experience and some of his other fascinating dreams. Those familiar with The Dream Boat Podcast will know that in each series we have a “Dream Lab” episode in which we invite two dreamers to share a dream that we then discuss from different angles to see how it relates to the dreamer’s life and what kind of meaning can be found in it. We always enjoy talking about those dreams, and people seem to enjoy listening to them, so for Series 3, we’re expanding the format. In the last episode we heard about Yas’s recurring dream of losing her children on the train, and its resolution. This week Damien’s dream sparks a conversation about colour and humour in dreams, lucid dreams (Damien has had many lucid dreams) and the nature of consciousness itself. Laura and Dave explore the images and symbols of Damien’s night-time world using Freudian, Jungian and other psychological and philosophical frameworks. As ever, whatever ideas and interpretations may be discussed, the dream always belongs to the dreamer, and Damien is a thoughtful and wise guest who has reflected deeply on his dreams. Your dreams are fascinating, too! Get in touch and tell us a dream you’d like to share. #dream #dreams #recurringdream #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork
On #internationalwomensday, we explore a mother’s recurring dream of being separated from her children, and its latest, more comforting iteration.
Who will you see as you approach the final exit? Dreams and visions at the end of life are significant and unique, according to research done at Hospice and Palliative Care Buffalo, USA. These end-of-life experiences (ELE’S) include images and experiences of those we loved who have died before us, be they parents, partners or pets. They may also be opportunities to confront and release old trauma. Dave had the opportunity for a short interview with Dr Christopher Kerr, CEO and Chief Medical Officer at the Hospice, physician, researcher and author of Death is But a Dream, the book based on his and his team’s research on end-of-life dreams and visions. This episode includes the interview, and Laura and Dave’s discussion of the interview and the implications of the research. #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork #grief #endoflife #dying #death #deathanddying #grieving #griefandloss #griefislove #deathpositive Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream @hospicebuffalo FB: @associationforstudyofdreams @laura.payne.33 @dreamresearchinstitute @HospiceandPalliativeCareBuffalo
Series 3, Episode 5 – Befriend Your Nightmares, with Dr Leslie Ellis How can your nightmare be your friend? Dr Leslie Ellis explains why nightmares might be shouting for your attention, showing what is unmetabolised in your psyche and maybe even telling you what is needed to help that process. “The antidote is often within the dream itself,” she says. She tells us about her embodied dreamwork method for “imagining the dream forward” to discover a new way through the dream, allowing it to complete in a way that doesn’t disturb your sleep. As part of her mission to de-mystify nightmare treatment and dreamwork in general, Dr Ellis talks to us about her long experience in working with dreams and nightmares, including her doctoral research on treating the trauma-related dreams of refugees. And she shares her knowledge and enthusiasm for the Focusing work of Eugene Gendlin. For the Dream of the Week, she shares a delightful dream of a red fox that may or may not be as tame as it appears. #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream @dreamsdemystified FB: @associationforstudyofdreams @laura.payne.33 @dreamresearchinstitute @DreamsDemystified
How can your nightmare be your friend? Dr Leslie Ellis explains why nightmares might be shouting for your attention, showing what is unmetabolised in your psyche and maybe even telling you what is needed to help that process. “The antidote is often within the dream itself,” she says. She tells us about her embodied dreamwork method for “imagining the dream forward” to discover a new way through the dream, allowing it to complete in a way that doesn’t disturb your sleep. As part of her mission to de-mystify nightmare treatment and dreamwork in general, Dr Ellis talks to us about her long experience in working with dreams and nightmares, including her doctoral research on treating the trauma-related dreams of refugees. And she shares her knowledge and enthusiasm for the Focusing work of Eugene Gendlin. For the Dream of the Week, she shares a delightful dream of a red fox that may or may not be as tame as it appears. #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream @dreamsdemystified FB: @associationforstudyofdreams @laura.payne.33 @dreamresearchinstitute @DreamsDemystified
“We are engines with millions of feedback loops… And dreams are a balancing process” We are joined by well-known U.K. Jungian analyst Dr Roderick Peters who’s been working in the field of dreams for more than 40 years. We look at the Jungian perspective on dreaming and its symbolic world of archetypes, opposites and individual and collective consciousness. Roderick recalls a powerful dream that he had when he was aged 3 or 4 about the nature of individuation and the separation of a child’s consciousness from that of its mother. This amazing dream has stayed with him all his life and set him on the path to studying his dreams on a daily basis since childhood. He also talks about his career as a doctor working in a sleep lab before he decided to become a Jungian psychoanalyst. Finally, Roderick joins in with offering interpretations for this episode’s Dream of the Week, sent in from a listener who goes to a dream theatre and meets a famous actress. For Roderick as a Jungian, dreams are where we explore “the organs of our psyche through the archetypes.” Dr Roderick Peters has written several books including Living With Dreams published by Andre Deutsch. He lectures and has written many interesting papers which can be found on his website. His has a therapeutic practice in London and Surrey and is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council. #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream FB: @associationforstudyofdreams @laura.payne.33 @dreamresearchinstitute
New episode! (Thursday morning) This week we are joined by well-known U.K. Jungian analyst Dr Roderick Peters who’s been working in the field of dreams for more than 40 years. #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream FB: @associationforstudyofdreams @laura.payne.33 @dreamresearchinstitute
The first new episode of 2024 dropped this morning! The warm and engaging Ryan Hurd talks to us about all things lucid dreaming and his own life in dream research, education and exploration.
“Am I dreaming?” is the question you need to answer to become lucid in your dreams, and that question will also make you question what it really means to be awake. In this episode, Dave and Laura speak with educator, author and dream researcher Ryan Hurd, who teaches graduate level courses at the University for Peace in Costa Rica and National University in California, and is the driving force behind dreamstudies.org, an essential resource for anyone interested in dreams in general and lucid dreaming in particular. Ryan is interested in consciousness studies at the intersections of ecology, spirituality and material culture. His latest work is Lucid talisman: Forgotten lore. In an open, personal, and informative conversation, Ryan tells Dave and Laura about how he started out as an archaeologist but now searches for knowledge and treasure in the depths of consciousness as revealed through dreams. He shares some of his vast knowledge on lucid dreaming, including lucid dreaming induction (learning how to have more lucid dreams) and the use of totems and the lucid talisman. In the Dream of the Week, he shares a heart-warming dream in which he and his infant son find that his home’s basement has become a huge, church-like space. #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork
Series 3, Episode 2 – Melinda Powell – Living Creatively Through Lucid Dreaming For experienced lucid dreamers, at least some of them, the ability to live out endless fantasies gets tired pretty quickly, and they start to use their lucid dreams to explore the nature of their minds, their dreams, consciousness, and existence itself. In this episode, Laura and Dave talk to someone who has done exactly that, and written about it, and who teaches people who want to do the same: Melinda Powell. They talk about how dreams have shaped and influenced Melinda’s life and work, and the powerful messages she has received in dreams, including the directive to teach and write about what she has learned from paying attention to her inner world. Melinda is one of the Co-Founders of the DRI Centre for Dream Studies; she is a psychotherapist and teacher of dreamwork and the art of lucid dreaming, and is the author of two books about dreams, “The Hidden Lives of Dreams: What they can tell us and how they can change our World”, and “Lucid Surrender: the alchemy of the soul in lucid dreaming”. She has published and lectured widely about dreams and lucidity, and she is writing a new book called: "Dreams My Mother Taught Me: Lessons in Love, Light and Lucid Dreaming From Beyond the Grave." In this episode: Ways to find out about and contact Melinda: Melinda has a gorgeous and informative website at melindapowelldreams.com Instagram: @melindapowelldreams And see her courses, writing, interview and other contributions at driccpe.org.uk! #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast
Series 3, Episode 2 – Melinda Powell – Living Creatively Through Lucid Dreaming For experienced lucid dreamers, at least some of them, the ability to live out endless fantasies gets tired pretty quickly, and they start to use their lucid dreams to explore the nature of their minds, their dreams, consciousness, and existence itself. In this episode, Laura and Dave talk to someone who has done exactly that, and written about it, and who teaches people who want to do the same: Melinda Powell. They talk about how dreams have shaped and influenced Melinda’s life and work, and the powerful messages she has received in dreams, including the directive to teach and write about what she has learned from paying attention to her inner world. Melinda is one of the Co-Founders of the DRI Centre for Dream Studies; she is a psychotherapist and teacher of dreamwork and the art of lucid dreaming, and is the author of two books about dreams, “The Hidden Lives of Dreams: What they can tell us and how they can change our World”, and “Lucid Surrender: the alchemy of the soul in lucid dreaming”. She has published and lectured widely about dreams and lucidity, and she is writing a new book called: "Dreams My Mother Taught Me: Lessons in Love, Light and Lucid Dreaming From Beyond the Grave." In this episode: Ways to find out about and contact Melinda: Melinda has a gorgeous and informative website at melindapowelldreams.com Instagram: @melindapowelldreams And see her courses, writing, interview and other contributions at driccpe.org.uk! #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast
Series 3, Episode 1 – Turning Nightmares into Post-Traumatic Spiritual Growth with Linda Yael Schiller What can you do when you wake up screaming, having revisited the harrowing scenes of a trauma which still haunts your nightmares? Linda Yael Schiller from Boston in the USA has developed the GAIA (Guided Active Imagination Approach) method to stop the endless cycle of nightmares for war trauma survivors and for anyone who suffers disturbing nightmares. We have talked about parasomnias - the official term for a variety of disturbed sleep patterns – and nightmare treatment with other guests, and in this episode, Laura and Dave talk to Linda about her work with PTSD and dreams, and how GAIA brings together best-practice trauma treatment and Jungian active imagination to turn PTSD into PTSG: Post-Traumatic Spiritual Growth. Linda’s method is systematic and clear, and has a lot in common with the Waking Dream Process, for those who know it or have listened to our episode about it. She takes Dave through the GAIA method in one of his dreams… listen to find out what they discover! #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast
Series 3, Episode 1 – Turning Nightmares into Post-Traumatic Spiritual Growth with Linda Yael Schiller What can you do when you wake up screaming, having revisited the harrowing scenes of a trauma which still haunts your nightmares? Linda Yael Schiller from Boston in the USA has developed the GAIA (Guided Active Imagination Approach) method to stop the endless cycle of nightmares for war trauma survivors and for anyone who suffers disturbing nightmares. We have talked about parasomnias - the official term for a variety of disturbed sleep patterns – and nightmare treatment with other guests, and in this episode, Laura and Dave talk to Linda about her work with PTSD and dreams, and how GAIA brings together best-practice trauma treatment and Jungian active imagination to turn PTSD into PTSG: Post-Traumatic Spiritual Growth. Linda’s method is systematic and clear, and has a lot in common with the Waking Dream Process, for those who know it or have listened to our episode about it. She takes Dave through the GAIA method in one of his dreams… listen to find out what they discover! #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast Dream Research Institute Linda Yael Schiller Laura Payne International Association For The Study Of Dreams
Series 2, Episode 9 – Dream lab is back by popular demand! As Dave and Laura come towards the end of the second series, they consider two listeners’ dreams through the lenses of different interpretations. Trainee psychotherapist Kit presents her fascinating maid of honour dream, in which the most beautiful silk dress she is going to wear to the wedding of a childhood friend is stolen and worn by her father. How dare he! Dave and Laura explore the wonderful imagery of the operation of Union, the Royal Wedding, or coniunctio, through the lenses of Jung, Freud, and the DRI’s Waking Dream technique. We journey through gorgeous conch shells, royal blue velvet cushions in an Uber and dingy basement bars, to look at the delicate balance between masculine and feminine energy and what this means for dreamer Kit. Then Ayurvedic doctor and osteopath Angela joins the Dream Lab to present her magnificent seven-foot Australian shaman dream. Dave and Laura accompany her on her dreamtime spiritual sojourn as the dreamer returns to the family home to meet her real-life friend and mystic teacher before she encounters a beautiful indigenous Australian hunter in the attic. She then returns to eat clams, another powerful spiritual image of pilgrimage for the dreamer, with her sister. Dave and Laura look through the various lenses: Jung, alchemy, the elements and the amazing Waking Dream Technique to unearth interpretations. What would it be like for the dreamer to become the hunter? And what happens when she eats the clams? But as the lenses turn Dave rightly reminds us at the end of Dream Lab that despite these interpretative explorations the dream always belongs to the dreamer. Enjoy! Let us know what you think, and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast! #dream #dreams #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #luciddreaming #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast