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IASD is a non-profit, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming.

10/30/2026

Halloween is the perfect time to share a few more photos from the IASD Dream Ball! 🎃🎭

We take dreams seriously, but we also know how to have fun!

From dream researchers and scholars to artists and dream enthusiasts, our community is full of imagination, creativity, and some wonderfully interesting characters.

Here’s to the people who make IASD such a special community.

10/29/2026

What if the greatest gift of dreaming is its freedom?

Its unpredictability.

Dream researcher and author Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, explores this fascinating paradox in his recent Psychology Today article.

In a world increasingly trying to predict and shape our thoughts, what does it mean to have an imagination that remains wild?

Link in comments.
Check out Psychology Today

10/26/2026

What happens when your dreams become a musical score? 🎶

After a creative dry spell lasting many years, Dr. Curtiss Hoffman turned to the Tarot during a workshop with one question: “What is my next project?”

The answer came through his dreams.

In his book The Musical Dream Tarot, Hoffman explores how dream melodies, Tarot archetypes, astrology, and classical music converged into an extraordinary creative undertaking.

Over six months, he recorded more than 200 dreams connected to the project.

What might your dreams be inspiring you to create?

Read the full essay. Link in bio.
Comment Tarot and we’ll send it your way!

10/23/2026

Lucid dreaming is one of the most extraordinary experiences of human consciousness ✨

You’re asleep, but you know it. The world around you feels real, yet you recognize that you’re dreaming.

And that awareness comes an incredible world of possibilities. Exploring landscapes, experimenting with the impossible or simply marvelling at the experience of being conscious within a dream.

Some people experience lucid dreams spontaneously, while others learn techniques to cultivate them.

Lucid dreaming is one of the exciting areas of dream exploration we dive deeply into at our annual dream conference.

Have you ever experienced the magical moment when you wake up inside of a dream?

10/21/2026

What happens when we take our dreaming lives seriously?

For Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker, dreaming has been an important part of her relationship with creativity, consciousness and the unseen.

Born in Georgia and educated at Spelman College in Atlanta, Walker has long explored the relationship between our inner lives and the stories we bring into the world.

Her experience reminds us that dreamwork isn’t always about finding an interpretation.

It’s about developing a relationship with our dreams, remaining curious about what they reveal, and allowing that relationship to inform our waking lives.

💭 Have you ever acted on something you experienced in a dream?

10/19/2026

Some conversations never get past the “I had the strangest dream…”

Here they do. Your bizarre, weird dreams have a captive audience. And we can’t wait to hear yours!

Join a community of researchers, artists, dreamworkers and curious minds at the 2027 IASD Dream Conference.

📍 Atlanta, Georgia
📅 May 29 to June 2, 2027

Registration is open. Become an IASD member to save on conference registration and stay connected throughout the year.

Comment IASD2027 and we’ll DM the link or you can head to the link in bio.

Come find your people 🫶

10/15/2026

Dreamwork as a Way for the Weary.

A powerful read to inspire friends and family to give dreamwork a chance in an uncertain world.

Dreamwork as a Way for the Weary

10/13/2026

What if a dream only makes sense decades later?

In 1996, jazz vocalist and dreamworker Jeannette Lambert recorded two mysterious words in her dream journal.

Fourteen years later, those words resurfaced in a song her children were singing in Cuba. It would take another eight years for the connection to reveal itself.

In Why I Keep a Dream Journal, Lambert reflects on synchronicity, music, memory and the curious ways dreams weave through our lives.

What might be waiting to be discovered in your old dream journals?

Read the full essay on the IASD Substack. Link in bio.

10/10/2026

René Descartes helped shape a Western intellectual tradition that prizes reason, logic, and certainty.

Yet in 1619, he experienced three dreams that he interpreted as profoundly significant to his intellectual path.

Consider the paradox.

A philosopher who would become synonymous with rational thought found meaning in experiences that arose beyond his conscious control.

Perhaps the deeper question isn’t whether dreams produce great ideas.

It’s why we so often give the conscious, reasoning mind all the credit 🧐

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