DREAM TIME RADIO SHOW #2 with Bob Hoss
Segment
Schedule
#1 18-July Dreaming as a Unique State
of Consciousness
David Kahn, PhD
We are actually conscious when we sleep, but the kind of consciousness
we experience when we sleep is very different from the waking state. The
differences are caused by changes in our brains and bodies. Dr. David
Kahn, of the Harvard Medical School, will discuss the major changes that
occur in our brains when we fall asleep and begin to dream that lead to
dreaming consciousness. He will also highlight recent research and will
discuss some of the ideas that researchers have suggested for why we
dream.
Dr. David Kahn is President of the
Association for the Study of Dreams. Dr Kahn received his Ph.D. in
Physics from Yale University and is currently on the faculty of Harvard
Medical School in the department of Psychiatry. He is actively engaged
in research to understand normal states of the brain while dreaming. He
is a chapter author in the book Soul, Psyche, Brain: New directions in
the study of religion and brain-mind science published by Palgrave
MacMillan in 2005; and a chapter author in The New Science of Dreaming,
soon to be out this fall.
#2 25-July - Dreams and Creative
Problem Solving
Deirdre Barrett, PhD
In this show, Harvard psychologist Dr. Deirdre Barrett, will discuss the
research on dreams and objective problem solving. She and other
researchers had tested every type of problem from brainteasers to
college homework to creativity in the arts and found that dreams can
reach a solution when the waking mind is stuck. She'll describe how some
of the world's most creative artists and scientists have used dreams to
inform their work. Drawing lessons from famous examples and the
controlled research, she will offer listeners techniques you can apply
to stimulate your own problem solving dreams.
Dr Deirdre Barrett is a clinical
psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical
School. She is a Past President of the International Association for the
Study of Dreams, and Editor in Chief of the journal Dreaming. She is
also President of American Psychological Association’s Div. 30, The
Society for Psychological Hypnosis. Deirdre authored three trade books
including The Committee of Sleep (Random House, 2001) and was editor of
Trauma and Dreams (Harvard University Press, 1996). Dr. Barrett's
commentary on dreams has been featured on Good Morning America, The
Today Show, CNN, Fox, The Discovery Channel, and Voice of America.
#3 1-Aug Bob Van
de Castle, PhD – What the Content of Our Dreams Can Tells Us
Dr Robert Van de Castle, who co-developed he Hall/Van de Castle scales
for the content analysis of dreams, will discuss how the systematic
study of dream content can reveal much about the nature of dreams as
well as about us the dreamer. His work with Calvin Hall provided us with
a solid approach for quantitatively investigating dreams – increasing
our knowledge of dreams from that of observation and conjecture to
quantifiable data.
Dr. Robert Van de Castle is Professor Emeritus of the University of
Virginia Health Sciences Center. He was the Director of the Sleep and
Dream Center at that Institution for 10 years. He is a former president
of ASD (1985-6), co-author with Calvin Hall of The Content Analysis of
Dreams (1966), the author of Our Dreaming Mind (1994), and Consulting
Editor of the SUNY Press Series on Dreams.
#4 8-Aug Justina
Lasley, MA - Exploring the Development of Self Perception through
Dreamwork
Working with dreams in a group creates a unique dynamic, often helping
to facilitate the process beyond that of individual dream work or
therapist/client work. Justina Lasley will discuss her investigations
into the individual experiences of being part of a dream group and
regularly working on personal dreams, and what she found as to what ways
the participant's dream group work facilitates individual changes in the
perception of Self. The research with the group members also focused on
how the group facilitates the process beyond that of individual dream
work or therapist/client work.
Justina Lasley is the founder of the
Institute for Dream Studies and is the director of the DreamsWork™
Certification Program in Charleston, SC. She is the author of Honoring
the Dream: A Handbook for Dream Group Leaders and In My Dream, a
creative dream journal. Justina's special interest is in using dreams as
a spiritual source for personal growth through an exploration of
emotions and energy. She has led groups, presented lectures and
workshops for dream group leaders throughout the U.S. and abroad for
over sixteen years.
#5 15-Aug Teresa DeCicco PhD and David King
– Sex Dreams, who is having more fun?
Recent findings are presented on the nature of dreams with sexual
content and their relationship with waking day sexual behaviours/attitudes.
Typical characteristics of sex dreams are also reported. Results suggest
that sex dreams contain more meaning about waking life relationships
than they do about sex life or sexual fantasies.
Dr. Teresa L. DeCicco is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Trent
University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. She specializing in
teaching, research and practice in the areas of personality,
self-psychology, abnormal psychology, health and dreams and dreaming.
Dream research and applied interests include personality, health and
dream therapies.
David B. King, B.Sc., is a student at
Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He recently completed
his undergraduate degree in psychology and is now pursuing his Master’s
degree under the supervision of Dr. Teresa L. DeCicco. His current
research interests include dreams, spirituality, intelligence,
sexuality, and health.
#6 22-Aug
Kenneth D Howell – Evolution of the Dreaming Brain
The human brain is a product of millions
of years of evolution. Our ability to dream is a product of the complex
and distinctive neurological attributes our primordial ancestors evolved
to meet the demands of their survival. Kenneth Howell will discuss some
of the theories encompassing the remarkable path our dreaming brain
traveled to produce this extraordinary experience. He will offer a
perspective of dreaming that could profoundly influence the ideas we
have formed about the nature, advantage, and benefit of this surreal,
often spiritual experience.
Kenneth Howell is author of The Dream
Document and most recently the Neuropsychology of the Dreaming Brain. He
has recently retired from the medical profession where he was CFO of a
medical facility and primary care medical group. He have been a
moderator of dream discussion on the web since 1996 at Dream Central (www.sleeps.com)
#7 29-Aug Researching Psi and Dreams -Stanley
Krippner PhD
#8 5-Sept Does dreaming have a function – Mark
Blagrove Phd
#9 12-Sept - Dreams before and after 911
Ernest Hartmann, MD
The events of 9/11/01 allowed for a careful systematic study of dreams
before and after an event that was traumatic or at least stressful for
all of us. Forty-four persons, who have been recording all their dreams
for years, each supplied twenty dreams from their journals -- the last
ten recorded before 9/11/01 and the first ten after. All 880 dreams were
scored on a blind basis. Dr Hartmann will discuss the effects of trauma
on dreams in general, and the results of this study, including the more
powerful imagery in the dreams after 9/11.
Ernest Hartmann, MD is Professor of
Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr Hartmann is one of
the pioneers of dream research. He performed some of the original
research on the sleep patterns in humans and discovered the REM-NREM
cycle as one of the basic mammalian biological cycles. He is the author
of over 325 articles, and nine books on sleep and dreams, including the
classic in 1967 The Biology of Dreaming and most recently Dreams and
Nightmares. He is a Past President of IASD and was the first
Editor-in-Chief of Dreaming.
#10 19-Sept - Dreams in relationship to Coincidence and Imagination
Robert Moss
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Robert Moss is a former professor of
ancient history and bestselling novelist. His fascination with the
dreamworlds springs from his early childhood in Australia, where he
survived a series of near-death experiences. He teaches Active Dreaming
all over the world and is the founder of a contemporary Dream School
that offers a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming. His
many publications and novels including Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates,
Dreaming True, and the soon to be released The Three Only Things.
#11 26-Sept - The Effect of Media on
Dreams
Jayne Gackenbach PhD and Sanford Rosenberg PhD
Doctors Gackenbach and Rosenberg will be discussing the effects that our
“Modern Media” has on Dreams in particular such activities as video game
playing. They will address questions of how media affect dreams both in
terms of content and structure as well as how dreams are represented in
media.
Jayne Gackenbach, PhD, is Professor of
Psychology at Grant MacEwan College, Canada. A past President of IASD,
she is an active researcher and author of three books on the psychology
of the Internet. Her current research interest is in consciousness and
video game play.
Sanford Rosenberg, PhD, is President of Media Research Associates with
twenty-five years of experience in Media Psychology. He is an educator,
lecturer, clinician, and consultant on media projects including movies,
games, and the web. He specializes in qualitative knowledge-based
research, examining the relationship between language, story, structure,
symbol, image, emotion, and experience.
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