Everything you want to know about dreams!
Hosts Dave Billington and Laura Payne and their guests talk about all the dream experiences, ideas, and theories there are, as well as ways of working with dreams and going further with your nighttime adventures.
Laura and Dave are both psychotherapists and teachers at the Dream Research Institute (DRI), the centre for dream studies at psychotherapy training college CCPE in London, UK.
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Series 5, Episode 10 – MORE DREAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED
jeudi 24 avril 2025 • Durée 39:09
Once again we’ve come to the end of another series and once again we’re going to end with our popular Q&A session. Thanks for listening and joining us on board the Dream Boat this time round. We love having you here and enjoy reading your thoughts and questions.
Dave pops back on board to join Laura for the wrap up and they tackle some great dream themes in this session, including toilet dreams and funeral dreams, discussing their psychological implications and the importance of ‘letting go’ for personal transformation. Whereas toilet dreams can reflect bodily needs or deeper psychological issues, funeral dreams signify the need for ritualistic closure and rebirth.
They discuss how dreams can serve as a reflection of unmet needs in waking life and how the process of letting go can be both challenging and necessary for growth, leading to deeper self-awareness and emotional processing.
They also address the impact of intense dreams on sleep quality and the significance of sleep hygiene and mindfulness in achieving restful sleep. Laura discusses mindfulness techniques from her book Nine Steps to a Mindful Life Without Meditating which can help calm the mind before sleep.
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!
Series 5, Episode 9 - WHO IS THE DREAMER – A DEEP DIVE INTO THE WORLD OF WHO ARE WE?
jeudi 10 avril 2025 • Durée 44:43
What happens at the intersection of dreams and consciousness? In this conversation, Laura is joined again by Maria to explore the profound notion of one very powerful question: WHO IS THE DREAMER.
Their guest to help dismantle this philosophical dream knot is Dr. Newton Kondaveti, of Quantum Life University near Hyderabad in India. Dr Kondaveti shares his insights into the relationship between dreams and consciousness, the significance of lucid dreaming, which can pinpoint the path to a higher awareness. He also considers the concept of the Akashic records, a cosmic library or energetic archive of all universal events, thoughts, words and emotions. They discuss how dreams serve as a tool for self-discovery and can alleviate suffering. Dreams contain hidden dimensions of our existence with dreams revealing hidden dimensions not accessible in waking life, as well as providing insights into past and future experiences.
Dr. Kondaveti discusses his work at the Quantum Life University (QLU), emphasizing the importance of understanding dreams in the context of spiritual science and personal growth and the university’s aim of blend spirituality with scientific understanding.
QLU is on qluglobal.com
Insta:qlugobal
Youtube.com/qluglobal
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Your dreams are worth inquiring about too! Share a dream or a question via our website driccpe.org.uk or the social links below!
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Series 5, Episode 8 – Ayahuasca Dreaming & Other Psychedelics
jeudi 20 mars 2025 • Durée 36:08
Laura and Maria delve into the fascinating intersection of psychedelics, dreams, and shamanic practices. They are joined by one of the leading researchers in this field Dr Simon Ruffell of Onaya Science. Together they explore how psychedelics like ayahuasca and psilocybin are being integrated into modern medicine and the role dreams play in this process.
They discuss the cultural significance of dreams in shamanic training, the differences in dream interpretation between Western and indigenous perspectives, and personal experiences with dream codes that predict future events. The dialogue emphasizes the importance of understanding these experiences within their cultural contexts and the potential for deeper insights into mental health and spirituality.
In this conversation the intricate relationship between dreams, psychedelics, and cultural interpretations are explored. They discuss the significance of ayahuasca in dream experiences, the differences between psychedelic states and psychosis, and the political factors influencing psychedelic research.
Simon shares his initiative to bridge indigenous knowledge with scientific inquiry, emphasizing the importance of collaboration. The discussion concludes with reflections on the achttps://onaya.science/cessibility of dream sharing and the transformative potential of psychedelics in understanding the psyche.
Your dreams are worth inquiring about too! Share a dream or a question via our website driccpe.org.uk or the social links below!
Let us know what you think and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast!
Series 5, Episode 7 - The Sandman & other sleep time visitors
jeudi 6 mars 2025 • Durée 28:49
What does it mean when we say that the Sandman has been when we awake? In this conversation, Laura is joined by a new co-host Maria Nazdravan of the DRI and they explore the mythological figures associated with dreams and nightmares such as the Sandman. They consider the Sandman myth, his link with Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Anderson and various mythical creatures like the Baku and the Oneiroi. They discuss the possible origin of the word nightmare and look at how all these figures reflect childhood fears, cultural beliefs, and the significance of dreams throughout history.
Your dreams are worth inquiring about too! Share a dream or a question via our website driccpe.org.uk or the social links below!
Let us know what you think, and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast!
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!
Series 5, Episode 6 – Can We Have Smelly Dreams?
jeudi 20 février 2025 • Durée 29:51
In this conversation, Laura meets ‘smellologist’ Keren Bester to explore the intricate relationship between smell and dreams. They delve into Keren's PhD research on olfactory perception and its philosophical implications and how this can relate to dreams. They discuss how smell influences memory and personhood, the impact of COVID when many people, who lost their sense of smell (anosmia), realised the importance of this mainly unconscious sense in their lives. They also look at the potential for using smell as a tool in lucid dreaming and whether certain smells can provoke good or bad dreams.
And are you one of the few people who can actually smell something in a dream? Do you have smelly dreams? If so, Keren would like to hear from you. Her contact details are below.
Keren shares her personal journey and the challenges of researching a sense that is often overlooked and vital to our sense of Self.
- have explicitly experienced not being able to smell i.e. noticing in a dream they can't smell something
- anyone who would like to participate in research using smell to prompt lucidity and/or influence dream content
Your dreams are worth inquiring about too! Share a dream or a question via our website driccpe.org.uk or the social links below!
Let us know what you think, and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast!
Series 5, Episode 5 – The Dream Boat and DRI is off to a dream incubation retreat in Greece
jeudi 6 février 2025 • Durée 46:16
Laura announces the DRI’s first retreat in the home of dream incubation – Epidavros in Greece. Twelve lucky people will join her and Sarah Janes from Dream Mysteries in May (see how to join the retreat link below*) for a full immersion in the ancient temple sleep practices for healing. Laura and Melinda run through the power of these ancient rituals before Laura interviews Sarah Janes about her fascinating work in this area.
Sarah Janes talks about how she became fascinated by the power of dreams during childhood and what led her from jettisoning her career as a US show promoter to become a specialist in ancient dream cults through the development of her work at Dream Mysteries.
Laura and Sarah discuss the beauty of Epidavros and how its magic is spell binding, especially wrapped around the myths and practices of the Greek healing God Asklepios.
Sarah Jane reveals how retreatants are often called by the God himself in dreams to come out to the sanctuary and how they find her online after such a dream. Laura discusses how the God turned up for her once in a spiritual workshop before she became a psychotherapist which led her to visit the site at Epidavros and, like Sarah Janes, the visit felt like a powerful ‘coming home’.
Sarah runs through what the retreatants will find at the temple and how the group will try out sleep hypnosis, purification practices, sound work and dream theatre work, in similar ways to the ancients who experienced dreaming there thousands of years ago.
The two dream researchers also look at a similar incubation project in a recreated oasis in the Egyptian desert and the links between the ancient Egyptian dream incubation practices with the cult of Asklepios in the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
*If you want to join them in May the Retreat Link is here:
Series 5, Episode 4 – This Jungian Life’s popular podcast comes on board The Dream Boat.
jeudi 23 janvier 2025 • Durée 52:52
Dave teams up with Laura again to chat about this episode’s guest, the celebrated podcast presenter of This Jungian Life, Lisa Marchiano, and the launch of TJL’s new book Dream Wise.
And The Dreamboat is pleased to announce that Lisa will be coming to the Dream Research Institute – DRI Centre for Dream Studies in London, UK on May 9 – limited tickets will be on sale via the DRI website. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know when registration opens.
In this episode Laura and Lisa discuss Jungian concepts for dreaming which are covered in the new book written by Lisa alongside her podcast co-hosts and friends, Joseph Lee and Deborah Stewart.
Lisa offers some great tips for remembering dreams, including research that points to vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) for improving dream vividness and recall. The book also includes a series of clever dream interpretation techniques which are entitled ‘keys’.
Laura and Lisa explore the wonderful notion of the ‘Dream Maker’, and how we all relate to this aspect of dreaming - the dream authority which seems to care for us, guide us in dreams, as well as admonish us. What is this energy?
They finally chat through a listener’s fascinating Dream of the Week about getting married in later life and how she swaps her bridegroom-to-be for a fox in her bed, before waking up while in the dream to shoo it out. They discuss wild animals in dreams and their sexual readings, lucidity and the strange concept of a dream within a dream. Does this represent the psyche asking for something coming into consciousness to be dealt with?
Your dreams are worth inquiring about too! Share a dream or a question via our website
Series 5, Episode 3: Dream Healing With Sound: Famous Jungian Dreamer takes us on a sound journey
jeudi 2 janvier 2025 • Durée 35:06
Internationally renowned Jungian dreamer Sven Doehner PhD, protégé of James Hillman, comes on board to discuss the healing power of dreams using sound. Laura and Melinda also attend one of his acclaimed workshops, held at the DRI in London, UK and report back on the results.
Sven talks how healing can materialize not just by playing with dream imagery and diving into meanings and symbolism but how sound can form a significant part of the healing process. Melinda and Laura discuss this and how they were impressed with Sven’s techniques during the London workshop.
Sven, a Mexican, reveals how a family dream about the 1937 Hindenburg Airship disaster affected his family and how a personal dream when he met James Hillman by chance in a US bookshop resulted in Hillman, a student of Jung, taking him on as a client and student. Sven discusses his work as a Transpersonal psychotherapist and facilitator and how his workshops and retreats have taken him round the world.
Sven Doehner, PhD, MFA, is a 72 year old Psychoanalyst trained in C.G. Jung´s Analytical Psychology, with James Hillman in Archetypal Psychology, as a Somatic Movement Educator, and as a Transpersonal therapist. His exploration, involvement and experience with native Ancestral Healing and Spiritual practices – begun in 1984 – is blended into his therapeutic work with others, as is his expertise in working with the Voice: “The Listening Voice”. in which he guides into discovering the vocal form of what is moving within them in a moment of particular tension. His intention is to dissolves knotts, opens space, and gives form to something new in order to restore, movement in the “being” of a person´s life. He calls this innovative proposal “The Sound Imagination”.
Series 5, Episode 2: I’m Dreaming Of A Dickens Christmas - Why did Dickens always sleep facing north?
jeudi 12 décembre 2024 • Durée 37:20
In this festive conversation, Laura and Melinda are joined by author Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Dickens’ great, great, great granddaughter to explore the profound influence of Charles Dickens on Christmas traditions, dreaming and the cultural significance of his work, particularly 'A Christmas Carol.'
They delve into Dickens' complex relationship with sleep and dreams, which is often explored in his novels with their themes of redemption and social responsibility, and his bizarre sleeping habits. Dickens suffered from parasomnias – sleeping disorders like hallucinations and nightmares, which are the hallmark feature of ‘A Christmas Carol’ when the ghost of Marley terrorises his business partner Ebenezer Scrooge in his sleep on Christmas Eve, with dramatic consequences.
Lucinda, biographer and Victorian historian, shares insights into Victorian Christmas celebrations and personal traditions, emphasizing the importance of connection and joy during the holiday season. They discuss the enduring legacy of Dickens' storytelling and its relevance in today's world and Lucinda’s new book, ‘A Victorian Christmas’ as well as her earlier book ‘Dickens and Christmas’.
Your dreams are worth inquiring about too! Share a dream or a question via our website driccpe.org.uk or the social links below!
www.lucindahawksley.com
Insta: @lucindahawksley
Victorian Christmas: Traditional Recipes, Decorations, Activities and Carols, 2024, Countryman Press Inc.
Dickens and Christmas, 2021, Pen and Sword History.
Let us know what you think and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast!
Series 5, Episode 1: An exciting Celebrity Dream Lab kicks off the new series
jeudi 28 novembre 2024 • Durée 36:33
In this first episode of the new series, Laura welcomes TV presenter and psychotherapist Melinda Messenger on board for the first ever Celebrity Dream Lab and then announces some surprise news. Melinda is joining the team as a co-host.
Melinda and Laura tease they can get out their dreamcatchers now Dave is no longer on board though they know he’s lurking onshore as the podcast’s executive producer.
They discuss Melinda's journey into the wellness community after she had a significant dream and her life-long passion for recording her dreams. The conversation explores the somatic healing power of dreams and how dreams live in the body. Laura shares how a recent transatlantic cruise on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 continued in her dreamlife because she flew home from New York rather than coming back to the UK on board the liner, and how the psyche and body felt something was missing.
The hosts discuss the significance of dream symbols, and Melinda shares a personal dream as part of the Dream Lab about a beautiful castle and jewels. They explore how this reflects her journey into psychotherapy. The episode concludes with reflections on the importance of dreams in guiding personal growth and transformation.
Our dreams are worth inquiring about! Share a dream or a question via our website driccpe.org.uk or the social links below!
Let us know what you think, and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast!
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!
This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London’s scenic Little Venice.
Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!
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