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What do dreams reveal about fear, hesitation, identity, and transformation? In this episode of The Dream Journal, Katherine Bell talks with Lincoln Stoller about dreamwork, self-doubt, courage, neurofeedback, mindfulness, and how dreams can surface the questions we most need to face. A thoughtful conversation on inner change, psychological growth, and the hidden patterns shaping our lives.
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BIO: Lincoln Stoller followed his PhD in quantum physics by studying with prophets and shamans around the world. After two decades as a software entrepreneur, he trained in neuropsychology, hypnosis, and psychotherapy. He publishes as a physicist and practices remotely as a therapist, counselor, and coach. His book which is “The Learning Project, Rites of Passage,” won the 2019 Independent Authors Network book of the year.
You can download his latest book: Dreaming Yourself into Being, at his webpage: MindStrengthBalance.com
The IASD conference is June 13-17 in Ashland Oregon. Find out more at IASDconferences.org/2026/
This show, episode number 366, was recorded during a live broadcast on June 6, 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:
Inside the Sleeping Mind: Memory, Dream Yoga, & the Neuroscience of Sleep with Ken Paller, PhD
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. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.
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Lucid dreaming, dream art, dream characters, and consciousness all come together in this fascinating conversation with Dave Green, London-based artist and author of Doodles in the Dark: An Artist’s Guide to Lucid Dreaming.
BIO: Dave Green is a London based artist who creates simple line drawings in his lucid dreams which he re-creates upon waking up. Lately he has been experimenting with giving his pen and paper to other people in his dreams to see what they create.
Contact our guest: Dave-Green.co.uk
The IASD conference is June 13-17 in Ashland Oregon. Find out more at IASDconferences.org/2026/
This show, episode number 365, was first broadcast on May 30, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz. The conversation was recorded on March 20, 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:
Healing Dreams & the “Joy Factor”, Lucid Dreaming with Dr. Clare Johnson
Lucid Dreaming with Robert Waggoner
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.
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Host Katherine Bell talks with G. William Domhoff about dreams, sleep, and consciousness through the lens of his book Dreams, Sleep, and Consciousness. Domhoff explains his neurocognitive theory of dreaming, arguing that dreams are not random nonsense, but a form of internally generated thought that reflects personal concerns, imagination, and the sleeping brain’s unique activity patterns.
The conversation explores several big questions: What are dreams? Why do we dream? How are dreams connected to mind-wandering, sleep stages, and self-awareness? Domhoff also discusses research showing that dream content often reveals recurring waking-life concerns, relationships, and emotional patterns. He shares examples from long-term dream series, including how recurring dream imagery can illuminate deeper concerns even when the imagery itself seems surprising or symbolic.
Domhoff argues that dreaming emerges when the brain’s systems for external attention and self-reflection are dialed down, while imagination and internally generated imagery remain active. The result is a vivid mental world that is immersive, emotionally meaningful, and often revealing.
If you are interested in dream research, sleep science, REM sleep, non-REM dreaming, lucid dreaming, consciousness studies, dream meaning, dream journals, or the neuroscience of imagination, this episode offers a rich introduction to one of the field’s most influential researchers and his decades of work.
Topics covered in this episode:
BIO: G. William Domhoff is a pioneering dream researcher who has studied dreaming since 1960. He taught a long running university course on dreams at UC Santa Cruz through 2019 and has spent decades exploring how dreams work, how we remember them, and what they reveal about the human mind. His latest book is called “Dreams, Sleep, and Consciousness: Interweaving the Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming with New Theories of Sleep and Consciousness.”
Contact our guest: DreamResearch.net and Dreambank.net
Bill is an invited speaker at the IASD conference which is June 13-17 in Ashland Oregon. Find out more at IASDconferences.org/2026/
This show, episode number 364, was first broadcast on May 23, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz. The interview was recorded on April 10, 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]<
In this powerful episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with award-winning author Diane Hartman about the profound connection between dreams, depression, writing, and self-discovery.
Diane shares the deeply personal story behind her memoir, Getting Lost on My Way: Self-Discovery on Ireland’s Back Roads, and how a solo journey through Ireland helped her confront the “black dog” of depression, reclaim her voice, and rediscover herself through writing.
Together, Katherine and Diane explore how dreams can guide healing, illuminate emotional truth, and reveal the deeper patterns shaping our lives.
Diane opens up about recurring dreams of a black dog chasing her—a powerful symbol of depression—and the unforgettable dream encounters that shaped her path, including a life-changing connection to Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue.
The conversation also touches on creativity, memoir writing, ancestral memory, photography, humor in healing, and the courage it takes to follow a dream even when fear is present.
If you’re interested in dreamwork, memoir, mental health, healing journeys, Ireland travel, creative transformation, or the role of dreams in personal growth, this episode offers inspiration, depth, and practical encouragement.
Contact our guest: DianeHartmanAuthor.com
The IASD conference is June 13-17 in Ashland Oregon. Find out more at IASDconferences.org/2026/
This show, episode number 363, was recorded during a live broadcast on May 16, 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
In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell talks with Alira Solara about dream mapping, recurring dreams, dream loops, lucid dreaming, dream weaving, and dream interpretation.
Together they explore why certain dreams repeat, how dream symbols and landscapes can reveal deeper patterns, and how tracking dreams can support emotional insight, spiritual growth, and everyday decision-making.
Alira shares her approach to dream mapping—a practice of journaling dreams, noticing recurring images and locations, and identifying how dream patterns connect to waking life. The conversation also dives into dream loops, the unsettling experience of “waking up” inside another dream, as well as ideas around shared dream spaces, lucid dreaming, sovereignty, and protection in dreamwork.
Katherine and Alira also discuss how dreams can reflect major life transitions, including a powerful dream that helped Alira recognize it was time to leave her job and follow a more aligned path. Throughout the episode, they reflect on how dreams can illuminate distortion, reveal hidden emotional truth, and help people reconnect with intuition, wholeness, and personal meaning.
BIO: Alira Solara is a writer, dreamworker, and intuitive guide who explores the intersection of dreams, shadow integration, and spiritual awakening. Through her work, she helps others decode symbolic language, map inner landscapes, and reconnect with their own intuitive knowing through dreamwork, storytelling, and embodied self-inquiry.
Contact our guest: AliraWritesTheLight.com TT, YT, IG, FB: @alirawritesthelight
The IASD conference is June 13-17 in Ash
What if the Sun is influencing your dreams?
In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with Dr. Annani Kelley, researcher, poet, and founder of heliopsychology, about her groundbreaking work on space weather, solar flares, geomagnetic activity, and human consciousness.
Drawing on more than 70 years of heliobiology research and her own PhD dissertation, Dr. Kelley explores how solar flares, sunspots, and geomagnetic storms correlate with changes in sleep quality, nightmares, aggressive dreams, dream bizarreness, and extraordinary dream states—including lucid, psychic, and precognitive dreams.
The conversation moves beyond sleep into big‑picture questions:
Dr. Kelley also shares poetry from her book Somnia De Fine Mundi (Dreams of the End of the World)—dream‑inspired work that reflects apocalyptic imagery, transformation, and cosmic awareness.
This episode blends science, psychology, dreams, poetry, and philosophy, offering a thought‑provoking look at humanity’s intimate relationship with the Sun.
BIO: Dr. Annani Kelley recently received her PhD from Sofia University and is the founder of Heliopsychology. Her dissertation focused on the influence of space weather on sleep and dream states. She has recently published a poetry book called “Somnia de Fine Mundi” which translates to Dreams of the End of the World.
Check out Dr. Kelley’s YouTube page @Dr_HelioPsy
The IASD conference is June 13-17 in Ashland Oregon. Find out more at IASDconferences.org/2026/
This show, episode number 361, was recorded during a live broadcast on May 2, 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
On this special episode celebrating 360 shows, Dream Journal host Katherine Bell (Experiential Dreamwork) talks with lucid dream pioneer Dr. Clare Johnson (Deep Lucid Dreaming) about healing dreams, lucid dreaming, and what Johnson calls the joy factor—those moments of bliss, beauty, and deep replenishment that can arrive in dreams and ripple into waking life.
Together they explore dream body intelligence, emotional processing in sleep, dream incubation, and practical ways to work with nightmares—plus how the “thought-responsive” nature of lucid dreams can support intentional healing.
This show, episode number 360, was reco
In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with dreamwork pioneer Robert Bosnak, founder of Embodied Imagination, about how to work with dreams, symptoms, memories, and trauma without forcing interpretation. Bosnak shares why “not knowing” can be the most skillful stance in dreamwork, how to re-enter a dream through flashback memory, and how shifting perspective—from the “narrator” to the environment or other beings—can unlock relief, agency, and integration.
Keywords: dreamwork, embodied imagination, Robert Bosnak, Katherine Bell, experiential dreamwork, flashback memory, non-interpretive dreamwork, trauma nightmares, somatic symptoms, neutral witness, psychedelic integration, imaginal realm, dual consciousness
BIO: Robert Bosnak is a Zurich-trained Jungian psychoanalyst specializing in dreaming. He founded Embodied Imagination and is a past IASD president, a fiction and non-fiction book author, and psychiatry faculty at the SUNY Upstate Medical University. He is also presenting at the IASD conference in June up in Ashland Oregon.
Learn more at EmbodiedImagination.com
To donate to the show’s host community radio station, go to KSQD.org
The IASD conference is June 13-17 in Ashland Oregon. Find out more at IASDconferences.org/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 Experient
What if dreams aren’t just personal—but meant for the community?
In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with writer, healer, and Earth activist Deena Metzger about sacred dreaming, Indigenous wisdom, and what it means to live by dream in dark and uncertain times. Together they explore dreams as spiritual messages, ethical guidance, and acts of resistance—and listeners share powerful dreams of sanctuary, community, joy, and not dying alone.
This conversation invites us to imagine a world where dreams teach us how to live, care for one another, and remain in relationship with the Earth.
✨ Featuring live listener dreams
BIO: Deena Metzger is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright and storyteller. She is an Earth activist with over a dozen published books and a multitude of essays, articles, poems, and stories. Her play, Dreams Against the State, was produced in a variety of venues. She has tried to be faithful to the calling of healer and medicine woman and has taught and counseled for over fifty years. Deena lives at the edge of a wild park with Mountain Lion and others as companions. Her newest offering is a novella called The Story that must not be told, which she describes as a fiction that is not a fiction.
Contact our guest: DeenaMetzger.net
The IASD conference is June 13-17 in Ashland Oregon. Find out more at IASDconferences.org/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.
This show, episode number 358, was recorded during a live broadcast on April 11, 2026 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
Videos available on YouTube 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:
Spiritual Elderhood with Illana Berger, PhD
What if your brain is solving problems, strengthening memory, and shaping creativity while you sleep—without you even knowing it?
In this deep‑dive conversation, cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Ken Paller joins Katherine Bell on The Dream Journal to explore groundbreaking research on memory reactivation during sleep, lucid dreaming, dream engineering, and how ancient Tibetan dream yoga practices intersect with modern neuroscience.
Dr. Paller is a professor of psychology and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Northwestern University. His lab was among the first to demonstrate that memories can be reactivated and strengthened during sleep using subtle sounds—a method known as Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR). This research reveals how sleep improves learning, creativity, emotional processing, and even problem‑solving.
Together, we explore:
This episode bridges cutting‑edge sleep science, experiential dreamwork, and ancient contemplative traditions, offering a powerful new lens on why dreams matter—even when we don’t remember them.
“Sleep can be helpful even if we don’t fully understand how it works.” — Dr. Ken Paller
00:00 – Dreams, Awakening, & Why Dreams Matter
02:10 – Meet Dr. Ken Paller & the Science of Sleep
03:20 – Memory Reactivation During Sleep (TMR Explained)
05:00 – Can Sounds Improve Memory & Skill Learning?
08:00 – Can the Sleeping Brain Hear & Respond?
10:00 – Using Sleep to Improve Mental Health & Well‑Being
13:30 – Lucid Dreaming: Knowing You’re Dreaming
15:00 – Two‑Way Communication with Dreamers
21:50 – Tibetan Dream Yoga & Buddhist Neuroscience
37:30 – Creativity, Problem Solving & Sleeping on It
This conversation reveals that dreams are not random or meaningless—they are part of a sophisticated system that supports learning, creativity, emotional regulation, and insight. By understanding sleep and dreaming, we unlock tools for living more consciously, creatively, and compassionately.
Contact our guest: KenPaller.com
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