In honor of the 40th Anniversary of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, I’m taking a look at dreamwork and how our connection to is has changed in the recent decades. Back then, most dreamers felt they were alone, and the IASD gave them a community where they could share research, insights and help promote the idea that dreams were important for everyone. Today the IASD has grown into a worldwide organization that promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams in both professional and public arenas.
Although not there at the beginning, renowned Dream Researcher Kelly Bulkeley has been an integral part of the IASD’S growth over the years. Kelly’s knowledge and insights have helped legitimize dreamwork as a serious discipline. He’s a past president of the organization and in this episode, he shares his views on dreamwork today and what we can expect in the future. Kelly tells us:
• Why he believes the 1980s was the birth of the dream movement.
• How he turned heads at his first IASD conference
• The reason more people are interested in dreamwork today
• The connection between dreams and news events
• Why he got interested in collecting dreams – and what he does with them
• The connection between dreams and spirituality
If you’re interested in the role of dreams in our world today, check out this fascinating episode of Dream Power Radio.
Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., is a dream researcher and author with a background in the psychology of religion. He is director of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a Senior Editor of the APA journal Dreaming, and a former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. He earned a B.A. at Stanford University, an M.T.S. at Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is author and editor of several books, including The Wilderness of Dreams (1994), An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming (1997), Dreaming Beyond Death (2006), American Dreamers (2008), Dreaming in the World’s Religions (2008), Lucid Dreaming (2014), Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion (2016), Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition (2018), and Escape from Mercury (2022) He has written three books that will be published later in 2023: The Scribes of Sleep; 2020 Dreams; and The Spirituality of Dreaming. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Website: https://sleepanddreamdatabase.org/


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