Vedic Hindu Culture

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM LISTING (BELOW)

Keynotes & Invited Lucid Dreaming from a Bön Buddhist Viewpoint – Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Edgar Cayce and the Use of Dreams for Self Guidance – Kevin J. Todeschi Dream Research:  From Freud to Neuroscience – Mark Blagrove Dream Experiences Accompanying My Week-Long Near-Death Experience – Eben Alexander Hippocampal Memory Reactivation in Awake and Sleep States – Matthew Wilson

Morning Dream Groups                 6828315    Healing Power of Dreams – Tallulah Lyons and Wendy Pannier 6825938    Listening to the Dreamer  – Michael Schredl 6826597    Exploring the Heart of the Dream – Robert P. Gongloff 6829043    Ullman Morning Dream Group – Mark Blagrove 6829087    Change and Individuation with DreamSynergy™ – Justina Lasley 6832822    Dreams: The Verbal and the Visual – David Jenkins, Walter Berry 6833643    Treasures from the Deep – Attending to Archetypal Images in our Dreams – Tom Lane 6824272    Using Ecstatic Trance for Healing and Spiritual Growth    Nicholas Brink

Arts & Humanities Special Events 6828831    Welcome to My Dream World – Misa Tsuruta 6829550    Trapped in a Dream: Lucid and Ludic Dreaming in Cinema – Bernard Welt 6833896    Dreams Calling – Vinece Lee 6823441    The Gilgamesh Cantata:  A Dream-Based Musical Composition – Curtiss Hoffman Workshops 6822832    From a Dream to a Performance – Silja Heikkilä 6823312    The Poetic Dream: Using Dreams to Create on the Page – Tzivia Gover 6826739    The Second Life (film event) – Hezekiah Condron Symposium 6829190    Dreams, Music & Consciousness     – Craig Webb, Massimo Schinco, Laura Mason Lockard Individual Presentations Organized into a Symposium 6828595    The Dream Castle Garden – Patricia Garfield 6828065    Perspectives in Dreams and Traditional Japanese Art – Megumi YAMA

Clinical Approaches Special Events 6833510    Understanding and Working with Children’s Posttraumatic Nightmares – Alan Siegel 6833781    Video Event: Lifecycle Dreaming and Researchers Exploring Dreams Workshops             6810987    Dreamwork takes Lessons from Neuroscience – Robert Hoss 6828247    Posttraumatic Dreams in Children and Adults: Clinical and Ethical Guidelines – Alan Siegel 6833918    Using Hypnosis to Work with Dreams – Deirdre Barrett 6829184    Bringing The Dream To Life – George M. Leute Individual Papers Organized into Symposia Perspectives on the Psychology and Biology of Dreams: 6726308    The Predictive Value of the Clinical Manifest Dream Report – Milton Kramer 6811586    REM Stage Dreams the Amazing Neuro-Psychological Phenomena – Wasseem Samaan 6830777    Toward an Architecture of the Dream II – Franklin J. Galvin Topics in Dreams and Psychotherapy: 6830444    A Series of Transference Dreams of a Patient from a Jungian Perspective Franklin J. Galvin6833559    Lucid Dreaming as a Technique in Psychotherapy – Brigitte Holzinger 6833776    From Reliving to Relieving:  Using Embodied Imagination to Help Combat Veterans Move Forward – Judith L. White

Dreams & Healing Special Events 6824221    Dream Diagnosis of Cancer and Clinical Correlation – Larry Burk Workshops 6823726    A Therapeutic Model for Healing Trauma – Jean M. Campbell 6824919    Mindful Dreaming: Five Core Lessons in Mindfulness our Dream Mentors Teach Us – David Gordon and Dani Vedros 6823411    End of Life Dreams:an Unusual Tool to Help Patients, Care Givers and Family during their Journey – Monique Seguin 6833934    Liminal – Jessica Orfe 6764221    A Dreamer’s Guide through the Land of the Deceased – Susanne van Doorn Symposia 6828813    The Lucidity of Light: Light as an Expression of Creative and Transformative Consciousness in Dreams – Nigel Hamilton; Diane E. Greig; Gregory Scott Sparrow; Mary Ziemer 6828873    New Directions for Dreams in Health Settings – Tallulah Lyons. And Wendy Pannier (chair); Jeanne Van Bronkhorst; Christopher Sowton, Beverly ‘BJO’ Ashwill Individual Papers Organized into Symposia Healing Self, Healing the Planet: 6827644    DreamingInto the Rain Forest:  Toward a Living Relationship with Mother Earth – Stephen Potthoff 6828914    Nightly Messages Reveal Inner Thoughts – Sheila Benjamin 6835149    We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us – Jan Kieft

Dreamwork Practices Special Events 6834078    Hermeneutic of Creation: A Method of Exploring Dreams – Fariba Bogzaran Workshops 6825606    Dreams: Theater of our Inner World – Heloisa Garman 6823755    Mandala Drawing Techniques as a Method of Understanding Dream Symbols – Ann Bengtsson 6826545    A Three Dimensional View of the Dream    David Jenkins and Rita Hildebrandt 6826628    Dream as Story: Exploring the Themes of Your Dreams – Robert P. Gongloff 6828468    Dream Analysis by Examining Handwriting Strokes – Judy Kolkin-Kaplan 6828535    DreamSynergy™: Dreams Action = Change – Justina Lasley 6829086    Dream Maps: A Way of Drawing You into the Dream – Walter Berry 6831799    Four Types of Dreams to Watch Out for in Health Care Practice Christopher Sowton 6832337    Dreaming It Forward with the Theater of the Oppressed – Bonnie Tarwater 6832348    Solution Oriented Dream Decoding  – Layne Dalfen 6834085    Integral Dream Practice – Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers6829154    “If this Were my Dream ……” “Well, it isn’t!” A Discussion of the Uses and Misuses of the ITWMD Technique. – Mark Blagrove and Gloria Sturzenacker 6828907    Seeing the Dream: Yogic and Shamanic Insight into Dream Work Paul Overman 6829177    The Body Speaks — Health Guidance in Dreams – Joy Bloom 6834184    Dance the Part – Julia Ray Panel 6828974    Long Term Journal Keeping: Lifetime Learning – Joan Harthan, Gloria Sturzenacker, and  Cynthia Pearson Symposia 6828877    Applications of a Will-Development Model to Dream Experiences Mark Thurston (chair); Gregory Scott Sparrow; Mary Ziemer Individual Papers Organized into Symposia Dream Explorations: 6828281    The Big Dreams of Childhood: A Jungian Method of Interpretation Patricia M. Bulkley 6829125    Poetry and Truth through the Purple People Eater – James Bardis 6832990    Gathering Dreams on Main Street – Arthur Strock Exploring , Mapping and Connecting: 6833742    Honoring the Mystery of Dreams – Claude Desloges6828073    Dream Mapping – Frank Pascoe, Ph.D. 6829020    Dream Progress: Waiting for the Next Dream – David Jenkins 6848831    It’s All in Your Dreams: 5 Portals to an Awakened Life – Kelly Sullivan Walden Managing Dream Groups: 6834015    Invasiveness or Intimacy? The Boundary Paradox in Group Dream Work from a Transpersonal Perspective – Henry Reed 6829209    Safety in Dream Groups; The Clearness Committee as Model – Rev. Geoff Nelson 6825851    Throw Like a Girl:  Using Facilitated Dream Circles to Empower Girls to Hold onto Their True Selves and Resist the Dangerous Pressures of Contemporary Adolescence as They Transition into Womanhood – Jane Maxfield

Extraordinary, PSI, & Lucid Dreams Panel 6833818    Extraordinary Dreaming Experiences and Their Impact on Consciousness Karen J. Bartnicki, Mary Whitefeather Joyce, and Carol D. Warner (Chair) Symposia 6827800    Dreaming about Tomorrow as an Adaptive  Behaviour. Analyses of 500 “Heads-Up” Dreams – Carlyle Smith (Chair); Donna-Marie Newfield 6829054    ‘Space’, Time and Lucid Dreaming: Connections to Modern Physics Robert Waggoner (chair), Nigel Hamilton, Don Middendorf 6833846    Light and Enlightenment in Dreams – Rita Dwyer(Chair),Robert Hoss, Fariba Bogzaran, Robert Waggoner Individual Papers Organized into Symposia Lucid Dreaming: 6827712    To Dream the Impossible Dream … The Quest to Become Lucid – Laurel Clark 6829197    Championing Dreams for Lucid Living a Deeply Fulfilling Life – Craig Webb 6833680    Lucid Dreaming Before Freud: The 19th Century History of Lucid Dreaming in the United States and Great Britain – Chris Olsen 6833682    What Lucid Dreamers Can Learn FromEmanuel Swedenborg – Chris Olsen. Spiritual and Theoretical Perspectives: 6833672    Van Eeden’s Secret: On the Centennial of the Publication of “A Study of Dreams” – Chris Olsen 6827711    Awake and Dreaming Experiences that Portend of Unexpected Transitions – Dale E. Graff 6834127    Accessing the Akashic Records in the Bardo of Dreaming – Barbara Condron and Mark Richardson

Mental Imagery (AASMI) Workshop 6833834    Waking Dream Therapy:  A Therapeutic Use of Night Dreams where Mental Imagery and Dream Imagery Converge (AASMI) – Gerald Epstein Individual Papers Organized into a Symposium Mental Imagery: 6827701    The Utilization of Dream Depictions—from Surrealist Art to Personality Research – Robert G. Kunzendorf 6824800    The Content of Ecstatic Trance Experiences: IASD Attendees versus Undergraduate College Students – Nicholas Brink 6825940    The Experience of Waking Dreams – Marybeth Carter 6828618    Mental Imagery of Wake and Sleep and Its Relation to Boundary Thinness – Michelle Carr

Religion, Spirituality, & Philosophy Workshops 6825617    Dream Lectio: A Workshop on Lectio Divina for Personal and Group Dreamwork – Merrill Hawkins 6828918    Mandala Motifs in Dreams as Signs of the Self (cf. Carl G. Jung) – Barbara Roukema-Koning 6829211    A Journey of Dreams and the Tarot: A Tarot Dream Interpretation Workshop – Athena Kolinski Individual Papers Organized into a Symposium Ancient and Spiritual Sources of Dream Wisdom Part 1: 6827734    Dream “Prescriptions” from the Akashic Records – Laurel Clark 6823684    The 7 States of Consciousness – Ann Bengtsson 6828988    The Problem of the Dream as “Knowledge”:  Imaginality as an Emerging 21st C. Discourse – David Patrick Greene 6833480    An Ancient and Universal View About the True Nature of Dreams – Francisco Garcia Ancient and Spiritual Sources of Dream Wisdom Part 2: 6821061    After Death Communication – Daniel R. Condron 6828577    Dreams, Glossolalia, and Individuation – Richard F Paseman 6828928    DreamWaters: the Mystical Sea of Shlomo – Richard F. Paseman 6833796    The Dharma of Dreams: Enlightenment, Nonduality, and Transrational Dreamwork – Tom Crockett

Research Symposia 6811162    Jung and Neuroscience – Ernest Hartmann; Stan Krippner; David Kahn; Robert Hoss(Chair) 6827650    AASMI Symposium:  Understanding the Dream through an Understanding of Mental Imagery – Robert G. Kunzendorf (Chair); Eric Klinger; Anees Sheikh; Ernest Hartmann; Norma Mittenthal (Discussant); Jerome L. Singer (Discussant) 6828446    Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies applied to Dream Research: Soldiers, the Bereaved, with Meditation, and the Stroop Task – Teresa DeCicco (Moderator), Allyson Dale, Nicolle Miller, Anthony Murkar, Josh Black Individual Papers Organized into a Symposium Dreams, Cognition, Emotion and Personality: 6826725    Phenomenal Features of Dreams Reported and Rated upon Morning Awakening – Tracey Kahan and Stephanie Claudatos 6827695    Social Media, Gaming and Typical Dreams – Jayne Gackenbach and Arielle Boyes 6828340    Dreamers as Agents Making Strategizing Efforts Exemplify Core Aggregate of Executive Function in Non-LucidDreaming – Miloslava Kozmova 6829083    The Way We Dream: Linguistic Creativity and the Emergence of Lexical Structures during Dream State – Marie-Helene Maltais 6828822    Boundary in the Tree Test and Dream Recall – Norifumi Kishimoto Neurophysiology of Dreaming: 6828108    Alpha Induced Activity Differs in Subjects with High and Low Dream Recall Frequency – Perrine Ruby 6826395    Testing the Prefrontal Hypothesis of Lucid Dreaming: A tDCS Study – Tadas Stumbrys Nightmares & Sleep Talking 6825385    Nightmare Prevalence among the Finnish General Adult Population and WWII Veterans during 1972-2007 – Katja Valli 6825931    Coping with Nightmares in Adults: An Online Study – Michael Schredl 6833908    A Content Analysis of Dion McGregor’s Sleep Talking Episodes – Deirdre Barrett Impact of Dreams on Waking Life: 6827494    Analogous Action Structures, Reflective Awareness, and Dream Impact Don Kuiken 6827884    Dreams of the Excluded: Therapeutic Effects of the Dreams of Nursing HomeResidents – Wojciech Owczarski 6828776    Earliest Remembered Dreams versus Recent Remembered Dreams – Shudarshana Gupta Dreams & Memory: 6829139    The Relative Incorporation of Waking Events, Emotional Waking Events, and Current Concerns into Dreams: Implications for the Memory Consolidation Function of Sleep. – M.Blagrove 6828626    Dream Bizarreness and Sensory Experience as Measures of REM- dependent Associative Processing – Michelle Carr 6833051    The Malleability of Dream Recall: Exploring the Effects of Suggestive Techniques – Antonio Zadra Dreaming-Waking Continuity: 6825951    Animal Dreams in a Long Dream Series – Michael Schredl 6828240    Ontogenetic Patterns for Interactions and Emotions Across the Lifespan in Women`s Dreams – Allyson L. Dale and Monique Lortie-Lussier 6828866    “I was Fighting Aliens … with my Dad and Two Uncles”: Close Relationships in the Dreams of Children and Adolescents – Susan Lollis

Theory Individual Papers Organized into a Symposium A Diversity of Theories: 6822504    Genetically Modified Humans – David L. Kahn 6828470    Finding Repetitive Elements and Patterns in Dreams Using Computer Aided Content Analysis Methods  – Beverley ‘Bjo’ Ashwill 6829053    Pre-Cogntive Dreaming – Alex Enescu 6829133    Animal Dreaming: A Wakeup Call from Forgotten Eden – Linda Mastrangelo Considerations of Language and System Theory: 6829055    Our Habitual and Unthinking Language-Usage Subliminally Influences Our Construction, Deconstruction and Understanding of Dreams Dominic J. Potts, Esq., J.D.; Mena E. Potts 6831806    Testing the Applicability of Dynamic System Theory in Dream Report Analysis – Willem Fermont

Hot Off The Press (Research)

Assessing Insight Obtained During an Ullman Dream Appreciation Group Mark Blagrove and co-author Chris Edwards –

Severely Injured Service Members and their Spouses Sleep Experience Stephen V. Bowles, Paul T. Bartone, Davina Hardaway, Sarah Hawley, and Amber Shriver

Gaming, Social Media and Nightmares Jayne Gackenbach and co-authors Keyfer Mathewson and Carson Flockhart

A Preliminary Study of Reflective Awareness in Taiwanese People’s Dreams Ming-Ni Lee

Poster Session (Research)

Dream Yoga, Kundalini and the Clear Light Nick Atlas

Interactive Music Therapy and Dream Activity in Psychosis Manlio Caporali and Marco Zanasi, and co-authors Enzo Fortuna, Tiziana Corteccioni, Anna Maria Magazzino, Maria Vagena, Laura Bianchini, Michelangelo Lupone, and Alberto Siracusano

Different Cognitive Processes Predict Positive Versus Negative Emotion in Dreaming Stephanie Claudatos and Tracey L. Kahan

Do Low Dream Recallers Really Dream Less? Gaëlle Dumel and co-authors Vickie Lamoureux, Michelle Carr, and Tore Nieslsen

Nightmare Protection Thesis of Video Game Play in First Responders Jayne Gackenbach and co-author Carson Flockhart

Social Media Use vs Video Game Play: Hall and Van de Castle Content Analysis of Dreams Jayne Gackenbach, Arielle Boyes and Sarah Gahr

The Red Book: Inspiration for the Red Book? Curtiss Hoffman

The Continuity Questionnaire Josie Malinowski and co-author Caroline L. Horton

Exorcizing the Ghosts of Trauma Isaac Yitzhak Taitz

Phenomenal Features of Lucid Versus Nonlucid Dreams (Poster) Shannon Thomas and co-authors Stephanie Claudatos and Tracey Kahan

Dreams Cloud: A Website for Engaging and Benefitting Dreamers Globally (Poster) Robert Van de Castle, Matt Tabrizi, Jean-Marc Emden, and Martha Kortiak Mert

Special Activities 6827773    Sunset Dream Hike at First Landing State Park – Alan Siegel 6829199    Dream Dance Circle – Craig Webb 6834113    Drumming into Dreaming – Mary Whitefeather Joyce 6858967    The Future of Dreams (luncheon event) – Lasley (moderator); discussion group