The Dream Boat

May 15 2024 3
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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 4, Episode 3 - How to Sleep to Dream

May 15 2024 45 mins  
Dave and Laura explore techniques and practices to improve sleep and enhance dream recall. The conversation covers sleep tracking devices, the different stages of sleep, the importance of deep sleep, and the role of REM sleep in dreaming. Drawing on personal experiences with sleep as well as their therapy experience, they share tips for improving sleep hygiene, such as maintaining

Series 4, Episode 2 - "We are all potentially, latently, big dreamers" - Kelly Bulkeley on The Spirituality of Dreaming

May 01 2024 47 mins  
"Dreamers, big dreamers in particular really need to step forward today. It's more important than ever, I think, to bring dreaming into the world." Dave and Laura interview Dr. Kelly Bulkeley about his book, The Spirituality of Dreaming: Unlocking the Wisdom of Our Sleeping Selves. They explore the idea that dreaming is not just about personal insight, but also about spiritual insi

Series 4, Episode 1 (Recurring Dream Boat): Lucid Dreaming Expert Robert Waggoner

Apr 17 2024 45 mins  
To celebrate World Lucid Dreaming Day (12 April), we’re replaying our interview with Robert Waggoner, a leading expert on lucid dreaming. One of the world’s top lucid dreamers, Robert Waggoner, joins Dave and Laura for a fascinating journey into the often so-called “rare” dream state of lucid dreaming. But as Robert will show, it’s not that rare for some people, and you c

Series 3, Episode 9 – Your questions, answered (or at least thoroughly discussed!)

Apr 03 2024 38 mins  
In this episode, Laura and Dave answer more of your questions. Questions like, why do certain things enter our dreams but not others? Or, what do shoes symbolise? They also delve into the topics of prophetic and déjà vu dreaming, examining the mysterious nature of these experiences. We love to hear your questions. They always get us thinking! Your dreams are fascinating, too! Get

Series 3, Episode 8 – Laurel & Hardy and a piano on the stairs – Dream Lab (B) with Damien Moore

Mar 20 2024 45 mins  
Dream Answers to Dream Questions! A 14-year-old boy who was curious about his dreams asked two questions before going to sleep: “Can you dream in colour or in black and white?” And, “Do you need light to dream?” Laurel and Hardy helped bring answers that night, and those answers were unequivocal, funny, and meaningful, and a few decades later Damien Moore has come on the po

Series 3, Episode 7 – A mother's recurring anxiety dream in the Dream Lab

Mar 06 2024 30 mins  
Yas Floyer is a journalist and mother, and like any mother she worries about her kids (maybe with more reason that some people). So Yas brings the latest iteration of a long-recurring maternal anxiety dream into the Dream Lab to discuss it with Laura and Dave. We always get lots of questions about recurring dreams and how they evolve over time, so this is an opportunity to talk ab

Series 3, Episode 6: Death is But a Dream with Dr Christopher Kerr

Feb 21 2024 38 mins  
Who will you see as you approach the final exit? Dreams and visions at the end of life are significant and unique, according to research done at Hospice and Palliative Care Buffalo, USA. These end-of-life experiences (ELE’S) include images and experiences of those we loved who have died before us, be they parents, partners or pets. They may also be opportunities to confront and r

Series 3, Episode 5: Befriend Your Nightmares, Befriend your Dreams - with Dr. Leslie Ellis

Feb 07 2024 44 mins  
How can your nightmare be your friend? Dr Leslie Ellis explains why nightmares might be shouting for your attention, showing what is unmetabolised in your psyche and maybe even telling you what is needed to help that process. “The antidote is often within the dream itself,” she says. She tells us about her embodied dreamwork method for “imagining the dream forward” to disco

Series 3, Episode 4 – Jungian Dreamwork with Roderick Peters

Jan 24 2024 41 mins  
“We are engines with millions of feedback loops… And dreams are a balancing process” We are joined by well-known U.K. Jungian analyst Dr Roderick Peters who’s been working in the field of dreams for more than 40 years. We look at the Jungian perspective on dreaming and its symbolic world of archetypes, opposites and individual and collective consciousness. Roderick recalls

Series 3, Episode 3: Am I dreaming or am I awake? The Lucid Talisman with Ryan Hurd

Jan 10 2024 48 mins  
“Am I dreaming?” is the question you need to answer to become lucid in your dreams, and that question will also make you question what it really means to be awake. In this episode, Dave and Laura speak with educator, author and dream researcher Ryan Hurd, who teaches graduate level courses at the University for Peace in Costa Rica and National University in California, and is t