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The Dream Journal episodes

August 17Quarter Life Crisis, Dreams, and Jung’s Red Book with Satya Doyle Byock
Early adulthood can feel like a search for meaning in a world that keeps asking for stability. In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with Satya Doyle Byock about quarter life as a developmental stage, the tension between stability and meaning, and how dreams can reveal what the conscious mind has not yet understood.
Satya discusses her book Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood, her work with the Salome Institute of Jungian Studies, and why young adults may be encountering questions of purpose earlier and more urgently today. The conversation explores Jungian psychology, individuation, stability types and meaning types, the symbolic power of dreams, nightmares, active imagination, and Jung’s Red Book as a map of psychological crisis and transformation.
You’ll also hear reflections on falling dreams, fortress and fire imagery, the role of the unconscious in personal growth, capitalism, and why crisis can become an opening to a deeper life when we learn to listen inwardly.
In This Episode
Why quarter life deserves to be understood as its own stage of adulthood
The difference between stability types and meaning types
How dreams can help reveal what is missing, defended, or ready to change
Why nightmares may signal psychic movement rather than simply fear
What Jung’s Red Book teaches about crisis, active imagination, and transformation
How inner work can help rebalance a culture focused on external achievement
Guest Links
Learn more about Satya Doyle Byock at SatyaByock.com and through the Salome Institute of Jungian Studies. You can also find her writing on Substack at SatyaDoyleByock.Substack.com.
Keywords
quarter life crisis, quarterlife, Satya Doyle Byock, Jungian psychology, dreams and meaning, individuation, early adulthood, Red Book, Carl Jung, Salome Institute, dream work, nightmares, active imagination, capitalism, stability and meaning
This show, episode number 376, was recorded during a live broadcast on August 15, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
Video podcast available at youtube.com/@experientialdreamwork. Popular playlists: “Dream Journal shorts” and “FULL LENGTH VIDEOS”.

Here are links to some other Dream Journal episodes you might be interested in:
Dreaming up the World We Want to Live in with Katrina Dreamer
Radical Resistance with Victor Lee Lewis
Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.
The Dream Journal aims to:
Increase awareness of and appreciation for nightly dreams.
Inspire dream sharing and other kinds of dream ex
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August 10Robert Moss on Active Dreaming, Shamanism, Synchronicity, and the Living Power of Your Dreams
Dream teacher and prolific author Robert Moss joins The Dream Journal for a wide-ranging conversation about active dreaming, shamanic imagination, synchronicity, dream reentry, hypnagogia, precognition, nightmares, and the living nature of dreams.
Robert Moss is the founder of the School of Active Dreaming and the author of books including Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois, Sidewalk Oracles, Mysterious Realities, and Growing Big Dreams. In this episode, he shares stories of red-tailed hawks, sacred trees, dream guidance, shared dreaming, and the ways dreams can spill into waking life.
Host Katherine Bell opens with a personal dream of a moonlit grove, inviting a conversation about how dreams can become portals for healing, imagination, and deeper relationship with the world around us. Robert explains why dreams are not static symbols to decode, but living experiences that can be revisited, extended, and embodied.
This conversation explores how to work with dreams creatively and practically: how to return to a dream, how to stay with a powerful image, how nightmares may be unfinished dreams, and how dreamers can use intention, imagination, and courage to reclaim what has been hidden or feared.
In This Episode
What active dreaming is and how it differs from ordinary dream interpretation
Why the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states are fertile zones for imagination and guidance
How synchronicity may show up through dreams, animals, symbols, and waking-life events
What dream reentry can reveal about nightmares, healing, and personal power
How dreams may offer glimpses of possible futures and choices
Why Robert Moss says dreams are alive, interactive, and connected to the larger world
How shared dreaming and intentional dream travel can open new forms of discovery
Keywords
Robert Moss, active dreaming, dream reentry, shamanic dreaming, dreamwork, synchronicity, hypnagogia, hypnopompia, precognitive dreams, nightmares, Carl Jung dreams, The Dream Journal, Katherine Bell, Experiential Dreamwork.
Hashtags
#TheDreamJournal #RobertMoss #ActiveDreaming #Dreamwork #DreamReentry #ShamanicDreaming #Synchronicity #PrecognitiveDreams #CarlJung #ExperientialDreamwork
BIO: Robert Moss has been a dream traveler since doctors pronounced him dead in a hospital in Tasmania when he was three years old. From his experiences in many worlds, he created his School of Active Dreaming, his original synthesis of modern dreamwork, shamanic journeying, and creative imagination. He has lived in upstate New York since he received a message from a red-tailed hawk under an old white oak.
Contact our guest: MossDreams.com and MossDreams.substack.com
This show, episode number 375, was recorded during a live broadcast on August 8, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
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August 03Dreams, Shakespeare, and the Play of Consciousness with Dr. Kelly Bulkeley
What do Shakespeare, dream journals, live theater, and spiritual imagination have in common? In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with dream researcher and author Dr. Kelly Bulkeley about the spirit of dreaming in Shakespeare, the power of dreams as play, and how long-term dream journaling reveals patterns of meaning over time.
Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, is a psychologist of religion, director of the Sleep and Dream Database, senior editor of the journal Dreaming, and a former president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. His books include The Scribes of Sleep, 2020 Dreams, Lucrecia the Dreamer, Big Dreams, The Spirituality of Dreaming, and his forthcoming book, The Spirit of Dreaming in Shakespeare.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Kelly and Katherine explore how Shakespeare used dreams throughout his plays, why live theater can feel like a shared dream, how dreams and waking life blur in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and what recurring dream themes can teach us about growth, creativity, and self-understanding.
Topics Covered
Dreams as play, performance, imagination, and creative rehearsal
How Shakespeare gave language to positive and negative views of dreaming
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck, trickster consciousness, and the dreamlike quality of theater
Why live theater can create a shared imaginal or shared-dream experience
Recurring dreams, stage dreams, and how dream themes evolve over time
The Sleep and Dream Database and how large dream collections reveal patterns
Elsewhere dream journaling app and ethical uses of AI-assisted dream reflection
Lucrecia the Dreamer, prophetic dreams, history, and the Spanish Inquisition
The Jeremey Taylor Dream Library Foundation and preserving important dreamwork resources
Guest and Resources
Guest: Dr. Kelly Bulkeley
Learn more: bulkeley.org
Explore the Sleep and Dream Database: sleepanddreamdatabase.org
Show: The Dream Journal with Katherine Bell / Experiential Dreamwork
Suggested Keywords
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Call to Action
If this conversation sparks your curiosity, subscribe to The Dream Journal, share the episode with a dream-loving friend, and follow Experiential Dreamwork for more conversations about dreams, imagination, consciousness, and the wisdom of the night.
This show, episode number 374, was recorded during a live broadcast on August 1, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
Video podcast available at youtube.com/@experientialdreamwork. Popular playlists: “Dream Journal sho
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July 27Are We Dreaming Reality? Paul Levy on Wetiko, Carl Jung, Quantum Physics, and Lucid Dreaming
Are we dreaming reality together? In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with author and spiritual teacher Paul Levy about the dreamlike nature of reality, the collective mind virus known as Wetiko, and how nighttime dreams can help us wake up within the waking dream.
Paul shares how a powerful spiritual awakening led him into a lifelong exploration of dreams, Tibetan Buddhism, Carl Jung, quantum physics, creativity, and collective healing. Together, Katherine and Paul explore how our perception shapes experience, why creativity is the way out of collective madness, and how dreamwork can become a form of spiritual and social transformation.
Why Paul Levy describes reality as a collectively shared dream
How Wetiko functions as a collective mind virus and what helps loosen its grip
The relationship between dreams, creativity, trauma, and spiritual awakening
How Carl Jung understood the psyche, shadow, synchronicity, and collective psychosis
What quantum physics can suggest about perception, possibility, and participation
Why lucid dreaming is less about control and more about recognizing the nature of the dream
How community, dream circles, and creative practice can help us “dream ourselves awake”
This conversation is for listeners interested in dream work, lucid dreaming, Jungian psychology, spiritual awakening, consciousness, quantum physics, Tibetan Buddhism, collective healing, creativity, and the mystery of how dreams can guide us toward a more awakened life.
After the show, stay tuned for a special VIDEO ONLY question!!
BIO: Paul Levy is an author, artist, Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, and pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence. Learn more at AwakenintheDream.com and through Paul Levy’s Awaken in the Dream Substack.
Keywords
Paul Levy, Wetiko, The Dream Journal, Katherine Bell, dreamwork, lucid dreaming, Carl Jung, quantum physics and consciousness, Tibetan Buddhism, collective dream, spiritual awakening, shadow work, synchronicity, dreams and reality.
This show, episode number 373, was recorded during a live broadcast on July 27, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
Video podcast available at youtube.com/@experientialdreamwork. Popular playlists: “Dream Journal shorts” and “FULL LENGTH VIDEOS”.

Here are links to some other Dream Journal episodes you might be interested in:
Dreams, Fear, and Transformation with Lincoln Stoller
Will We Make it to a Safer Age? With Christine Barrington
Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at
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July 20 Is This Yours to Carry? with Linda Schiller
We are the dreams of our ancestors; we are their hopes for the future. But sometimes their trauma is transmitted to us through nightmares. In today’s special replay, Dream Journal regular Linda Schiller, speaks about how to heal that intergenerational pain and focus on the gifts of ancestral connection.
Linda talks about her own ancestors and how her grandfather, who she called Grandpa Joey, fled Kiev with his family at age of three because of the pogroms and how making borscht soup always helped her feel more connected to that side of her family. We talk about the trauma that we inherit from our ancestors but also the caring and resilience. Linda also talks about synchronicity, public trauma vs private trauma, drawing up a family tree, and dream incubation.
After the break, we explore a dream of Katherine’s about doing numerical computations like she used to during her NASA career and about why she might be having this dream now over 20 years after leaving that position.
BIO: Linda Yael Schiller is an international teacher, psychotherapist, and dream worker. She is professor emeritus from Boston University School of Social Work and the post-graduate Trauma Certificate program. She is the author of three books. Her new book is “Ancestral Dreaming: Healing Generational Wounds with Active Dreamwork”.
Find our guest at: LindaYaelSchiller.com
This show, episode number 372, was broadcast July 18, 2026 from a show originally recorded January 31, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
Video podcast available at youtube.com/@experientialdreamwork. Popular playlists: “Dream Journal shorts” and “FULL LENGTH VIDEOS”.

Here are links to some other Dream Journal episodes you might be interested in:
The Woman between the Worlds: Dr Apela Colorado
Dreaming with, about, and for the Ancestors with Stephanie Burns, PhD
Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.
The Dream Journal aims to:
Increase awareness of and appreciation for nightly dreams.
Inspire dream sharing and other kinds of dream exploration as a way of adding depth and meaningfulness to lives and relationships.
Improve society by the increased empathy, emotional balance, and sense of wonder which dream exploration invites.
A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.
The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-
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July 13Dreams Helped her Escape a Spiritual Cult with Priya Hutner
Author, chef, and literary arts advocate Priya Hutner joins The Dream Journal to share how a series of vivid nightmares helped her recognize that it was time to leave the spiritual cult she grew up in. In this powerful conversation with host Katherine Bell, Priya explores dreams, belonging, belief, spiritual entrapment, family allegiance, and the long path toward personal liberation.
Priya is the author of Chasing Nirvana: A Seeker’s Story of Love, Loss, and Liberation, a memoir about growing up in a spiritual community, becoming deeply devoted to a guru, and ultimately reclaiming her voice. She also discusses life after leaving, rebuilding identity through writing and food, co-founding the Tahoe Literary Festival, and the role dreams can play in awakening, healing, and change.
In this episode:
How recurring nightmares helped Priya understand she needed to leave
The human longing for meaning, spirituality, and belonging
What happens when devotion becomes spiritual entrapment
The symbolism of a dream about choking, secrets, and reclaiming voice
Life after leaving a cult: therapy, writing, cooking, community, and rebuilding identity
Priya’s memoir Chasing Nirvana and her work with the Tahoe Literary Festival
BIO: Priya Hutner is an author, private chef and co-founder of the Tahoe Literary Festival. She is a public speaker, workshop facilitator, and hosts several literary events. She is dedicated to building community, supporting emerging writers, advocating for the literary arts, and fostering authentic human connection. Her award-winning memoir, Chasing Nirvana: A Seeker’s Story of Love, Loss, and Liberation, chronicles her years in a spiritual cult and explores the complexities of belief, family allegiance, spiritual entrapment, and personal awakening.
Contact our guest: PriyaHutner.com
This show, episode number 371, was recorded during a live broadcast on July 11, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
Video podcast available at youtube.com/@experientialdreamwork. Popular playlists: “Dream Journal shorts” and “FULL LENGTH VIDEOS”.

Here are links to some other Dream Journal episodes you might be interested in:
Dreams After Coercive Control: Reclaiming Self-Trust with Gerette Buglion
Trauma is Universal but So Is Healing with Wendy Correa
Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com</
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July 06Indigenous Dreaming Traditions: Mayan, Huichol, and Toltec Dream Wisdom with Alejandra Perez Regura
How do ancient cultures understand dreaming? In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with dreamwork professional Alejandra Perez Regura about Indigenous dreaming practices in Mayan, Huichol, Toltec, Mapuche, Totonac, and other traditions. Together they explore dreams as guidance, healing, community wisdom, and a bridge between waking life, nature, spirit, and the deeper self.
Alejandra shares stories from her research and lived experience, including a powerful childhood dream near a river in Chiapas, during a retreat in the Mayan-Toltec recapitulation caves. She talks about Huichol pilgrimages, collective dream sharing, dream incubation, sacred plants, obsidian as a dream portal, healing dreams, angel work, and the teaching of non-separation: the dreamer and the dream are part of one continuous reality.
This conversation is for anyone interested in dreamwork, Indigenous wisdom, spiritual practice, lucid dreaming, dream healing, collective dreaming, or how nighttime dreams can guide waking life.
In This Episode:
How Mayan, Huichol, and Toltec traditions understand dreams
Why dreams are often shared communally rather than treated as private experiences
What recapitulation caves are and how they support vivid dreams and life review
How sacred landscapes, stars, trees, rocks, rivers, and oceans can be part of dreaming practice
Dreaming for guidance, healing, ceremony, pilgrimage, and community decision-making
The role of intention, breathwork, purification, and dream incubation
How Alejandra connects Indigenous dream wisdom, angel work, and modern dreamwork
The teaching of non-separation: “I am the dreamer and I am the dream”
BIO: Alejandra Perez Regura is a dreamwork professional whose main interest is Dreaming in Indigenous Cultures, mainly in Mexico with the Mayan and Huichol traditions. Among her great passions are writing, traveling and learning about different cultures and languages. She recently fulfilled her dream of living near the ocean and the whales, in Baja California Sur.
Find out about the Institute for Dream Studies at InstituteforDreamStudies.org
This show, episode number 370, was recorded during a live broadcast on July 4, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
Video podcast available at youtube.com/@experientialdreamwork. Popular playlists: “Dream Journal shorts” and “FULL LENGTH VIDEOS”.

Here are links to some other Dream Journal episodes you might be interested in:
When Dreams Guide How We Live: Deena Metzger on Spirit, Earth, and the Power of Dreaming
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June 29 Dreams After Coercive Control: Reclaiming Self-Trust with Gerette Buglion
Dreams after coercive control can be confusing, intense, and surprisingly healing. In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with Gerette Buglion about reclaiming self-trust after cultic relationships, narcissistic abuse, manipulation, and other forms of coercive control.
Gerette shares how dream images can become vulnerable places where autonomy is either undermined or restored. Together, Katherine and Gerette explore nightmares, dreams of former abusers or leaders, violent or disturbing imagery, and the tender process of learning to trust your own inner authority again.
The conversation includes a listener dream about two babies, a communal bathroom, and the struggle to release what no longer belongs inside. Through the lens of Katherine’s Experiential Dreamwork and Gerette’s Writing to Reckon practice, the episode looks at privacy, shame, boundaries, inner development, memory rescripting, dream rescripting, and the possibility of asking: “Is there more for me?”
In this episode
• Why the dreamer is the final authority on their own dream
• How dreams can be used either to manipulate or to restore autonomy
• Dreams after cultic abuse, religious trauma, narcissistic abuse, and coercive control
• Self-trust, shame, longing, and tenderness after harmful relationships
• How writing can help survivors reclaim memory, voice, and choice
• Working with disturbing dream imagery without forcing fixed interpretations
• Dream rescripting, memory rescripting, and new possibilities for healing
BIO: Gerette Buglion wants to live in a world where cult leaders, narcissistic abusers, and manipulative marketing techniques are spotted, called out, and silenced, creating more opportunities for nourishing relationships to flourish. Her work as educator centers on liberation from coercive control and supporting the integrative power of writing for survivors of cultic relationships through Writing to Reckon™ programs.
Gerette is author of two books “An Everyday Cult” and “Writing to Reckon Journal.” Find her at: GeretteBuglion.com and at LivingCultFree.com.
This show, episode number 369, was recorded during a live broadcast on June 27, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
Video podcast available at youtube.com/@experientialdreamwork. Popular playlists: “Dream Journal shorts” and “FULL LENGTH VIDEOS”.

Here are links to some other Dream Journal episodes you might be interested in:
Manipulative Dream Interpretation with Gerette Buglion
The Healing Power of Storytelling with Gerette Buglion
Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at
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June 22Why We Dream: Nightmares, Sleep Science, and Healing Dreams with Karen Van Kampen
Why do dreams matter, and how can we use them to support waking life? In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with Canadian author and health journalist Karen Van Kampen about her book The Brain Never Sleeps: Why We Dream and What It Means for Our Health. Together they explore dream science, memory, mental health, dream sharing, nightmare rescripting, dream engineering, lucid dreaming research, and the emerging study of anesthesia dreams as potentially healing experiences.
Karen shares how childhood experiences in her father’s sleep lab shaped her fascination with dreaming, why dreams may act like a “highlight reel” of waking concerns, and how practices such as dream journaling, dream salons, and imagery rehearsal therapy can help us engage dreams with curiosity and care. The conversation also looks at cutting-edge research on guiding dreams, communicating with lucid dreamers, and the possibility that anesthesia dreams may help people revisit difficult memories in a calm, transformative state.
Why dreams are connected to memory, mental health and waking life
How dream sharing builds empathy and new perspectives
Imagery rehearsal therapy and practical ways to rewrite nightmares
Dream engineering, sleep onset creativity and technology-assisted dreaming
Lucid dreaming research and two-way communication with dreamers
Anesthesia dreams, healing dreams and post-traumatic growth
How stories, memories and dreams shape identity
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to The Dream Journal
01:02 Meet Karen Van Kampen and The Brain Never Sleeps
03:36 Karen’s early life with her sleep-scientist father
05:12 Dream deprivation, sleep and mental health
07:31 Memory consolidation and the “next up” model of dreaming
09:47 Dream salons, dream sharing and collective insight
15:33 How dreams reveal waking-life concerns
17:16 Thought suppression and why it can rebound in dreams
18:36 Imagery rehearsal therapy and rewriting nightmares
24:44 Dream engineering and guiding dreams with technology
28:20 Lucid dreaming and two-way communication with dreamers
31:46 Anesthesia dreams and healing dream experiences
39:43 Consciousness, memory and dreams as a 24-hour continuum
44:31 Final encouragement: becoming empowered dreamers
BIO: Karen van Kampen is a Canadian author and journalist who specializes in health and science. Her latest book is the instant national bestseller “The Brain Never Sleeps: Why We Dream and What it Means for our Health”. Her fascination with dreams began at the age of nine when she was her father’s first sleep lab “assistant,” helping him practice electrode hook-up and testing.
Contact our guest: KarenvanKampen.com
This show, episode number 368, was recorded during a live broadcast on June 20, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
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June 15Gayle Delaney on Dream Interviewing, IASD Origins, and Why Sleep Shapes a Better Life
Now with the correct audio!! (Once it propagates through all the platforms…)
In this episode of The Dream Journal, Katherine Bell talks with Dr. Gayle Delaney about the origins of modern dreamwork, the early days of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and Delaney’s practical Dream Interview Method. Their conversation also explores how curiosity—not imposed interpretation—can unlock the meaning of dreams, why sleep is essential for emotional and cognitive health, and how dreamwork can help people make better choices in waking life.
Gayle Delaney’s Dream Interview Method and why it avoids one-size-fits-all interpretations
How IASD began and what the early dream conferences were like
Why dreamwork starts with curiosity, precise questions, and the dreamer’s own language
The connection between sleep, joy, energy, and long-term brain health
An example of how a dream about a black cat can open into real-life insight
BIO: Dr. Gayle Delaney is the author or editor of eight books on dreaming, and Gail is a true pioneer in modern dream work who created the simple and powerful dream interview method. Gayle was also the founding president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and along with Dr. Loma Flowers, Gayle was the creator and co-director of the Delaney and Flowers Dream Center in San Francisco.
Contact our guest: DelaneyonDreams.com
The IASD conference is June 13-17 in Ashland Oregon. Find out more at IASDconferences.org/2026/
This show, episode number 367, was broadcast on June 13, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz. It was recorded on May 13, 2026.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on LI, IG, YT, FB, & LT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
Video podcast available at youtube.com/@experientialdreamwork. Popular playlists: “Dream Journal shorts” and “FULL LENGTH VIDEOS”.

Here are links to some other Dream Journal episodes you might be interested in:
How Dreams Improve Emotional Health | Psychiatrist Loma K. Flowers on Emotional Competence
Understanding Your Mind with Jesse Lyon
Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.
The Dream Journal aims to:
Increase awareness of and appreciation for nightly dreams.
Inspire dream sharing and other kinds of dream exploration as
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About The Dream Journal

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The Dream Journal explores a range of topics relating to the healing aspects of night time dreaming. Experienced dream coach Katherine Bell interviews dream experts and others on the path of dreaming, but the heart of this show is YOU, your nighttime dreams, your daytime desires, your hopes for a better life. Dreams, they really can transform your life! Podcasted episodes can be found on all major platforms. Video versions are available on YouTube @ExperientialDreamwork!