Student Awards

Announcing the IASD Student Awards for 2024!

The IASD Student Research Awards are given to students (undergraduate and graduate) in two areas: best original scientific research on dreams and dreaming; best original historical, literary, artistic, or theoretical research on dreams. There will be three awards in the amount of $500 each. We are pleased to announce that two anonymous donors have graciously agreed to provide matching funds for the 2023 competition! The IASD Board of Trustees will provide the balance of funds.

Award 1:
Best student submission of original quantitative research on dreams and dreaming.
Award 2:
Best student submission of original qualitative (historical, literary, artistic, or theoretical) research on dreams.
Submissions in both categories will be evaluated on the basis of four criteria: originality, relevance, coherence, and significance of contribution to the study of dreams.
Award 3:
The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Award has been newly instituted by the IASD Board to lift up and amplify the voices of dream researchers from ethnic groups that have been underrepresented in dream research, and may be awarded for either quantitative or qualitative research. Applicants remain eligible for Award 1 and 2.

Who May Participate:
Undergraduate or graduate students (Must send valid student ID).

Applicants must specify whether their research should be considered as quantitative or qualitative , and specify their level of academic achievement: Undergraduate, Masters, Ph.D., or other (please specify).

Applicants for the DEI Student Research should submit a statement confirming in a few sentences their identification in an ethnic group that has been underrepresented in academic dream research. Final selection of the DEI Student Research Award is at the recommendation of the IASD Diversity Advisory Committee from among candidates in either quantitative or qualitative research ranked by the Ernest Hartmann Student Research Awards Committee. Please consult the IASD Dreams & Ethnicity Portal online for details: https://www.asdreams.org/dreams-and-ethnicity-portal/. Requests for further information are welcomed at: diversityresponse@asdreams.org

Research which has been published prior to the submission deadline is not eligible for these awards. In the case of papers with multiple authors – responsible for the ideas presented as well as the description of the results – the contestant must indicate clearly, in either the text of the paper or in an accompanying letter, what portions are the submitter’s own work.

There is a 5,000 word maximum for all submissions.

Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2024
All participants must submit their presentations in electronic form, preferably through email to office@asdreams.org or if necessary, by mailing the files, copied to a CD or a DVD, to the IASD office, postmarked by March 15, 2024

IASD-Student Research
PO Box 582
Folsom, CA 95763

Alternatively, a copy can be faxed to the IASD Office at 1-209-724-0889, or scanned and emailed as an attachment to office@asdreams.org. A note or cover letter should be included to indicate that this is for the IASD Student Research Award; whether their research should be considered as quantitative or qualitative; and if they intend to apply for the DEI Student Research Award, should include a brief statement confirming their identity in an ethnic group that has been underrepresented in academic dream research.

Participants may also electronically submit videos in AVI formats, or music in MIDI or MPS formats.

Winners will be announced during the General Membership Meeting at the IASD annual conference. Check the schedule of conference events to find out the exact date and time.

Good luck to all participants!

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A follow-up study of the past 10 years’ awardees is available to download. Click on the image above to download a .pdf of the article that appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of IASD’s DreamTime Magazine.

Ernest Hartmann Student Research Award Celebrates its 10th Year
Curtiss Hoffman, Student Research Awards Committee Chair

“The inception of the Student Research Awards Committee was a result of an inspiration from the late Dr. Ernest Hartmann at the 2004 IASD conference. Since then, thanks to generous grants from anonymous donors supplemented by funds from the IASD Board, the committee has been able to offer two awards each year to outstanding student researchers: one for quantitative and one for qualitative research. Part of the awardees’ commitment upon receiving the award is to continue to pursue dream studies by presenting their research in an IASD-approved format, either at a conference or as a journal article.”

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2022 Student Award Winners:

The 2022 IASD Quantitative Student Research Award went to
Maddy Wary
In recognition of her submission,
“Assessing the Role of Sleep in American Sign Language Learning”

The 2022 IASD Qualitative Student Research Award went to
Victoria Rogers
In recognition of her submission,
“Black Noise:  Dream the Revolution”

Honorable Mention in the Qualitative Category went to
Farah Aziz Annesha
In recognition of her submission,
“An Analytical Study of Birth Dreams in Bangladesh”

Note: The Diversity Advisory Committee awarded the DEI Student Research Award to Farah Aziz Annesha and named Victoria Rogers as an honorable mention in that category.

2020 Student Award Winners:

The Student Research Awards Committee is pleased to announce the awards for the 2020 competition:
  • Quantitative Award: Katharina Luth, “Effectiveness of the Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for Nightmares in a Telephone Counseling”
  • Qualitative Award: Lana Sackwild, “The Healing and Transformative Potential of Lucid Dreaming for Mitigating Depression: An Interpretive and Phenomenological Analysis”
  • Qualitative Honorable Mention: Wania Shakeel, “What Are Dreams?”
The last of these submissions, remarkably, was by a 10-year old girl! This occasioned a lively discussion at the Annual Board Meeting about providing a special category for “young oneironauts.” It had been part of Ernest Hartmann’s original vision for the awards program that it be open not only to undergraduate and graduate students but also to younger dreamers. To achieve this, we welcome input from IASD members who may be interested in developing an innovative program in this area! Contact me at teximus@comcast.net.

2019 Student Award Winners: (no awards in 2019) 

2018 Student Award Winners 

  • Josh Black, “Who Dreams of the Deceased? The Roles of Dream Recall, Grief Intensity, Attachment, and Openness to Experience”
  • Karen Konkoly, “Learning to Lucid Dream Enhances Aspects of Personal Growth”

2017 Student Award Winners: 

$500 Award to
Sheri D. Kling, MATS, MAR, PhD
PERCEPTIVE BODY-MIND: A RELATIONAL-IMAGINAL THEORY OF DREAMING
Claremont School of Theology

Honorable Mention
Heather Dawn, PhD
Dreams That Were Used as Legal Evidence in the New England Witch Trials From 1661 to 1692 (qualitative)
Saybrook Institute

Honorable Mention
Jesse Kipperman (quantitative)
The Effectiveness of Dreamwork for Personal Growth and Healing:
A Specific Case Study on Using Intention Towards Dreams

Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Arts Integral Health with an Emphasis on Integral Psychology
California Institute for Human Science

2016 (coming soon) 

2015 (coming soon)

2014 Student Award Winners:

Thank you to the 2014 donors to the Ernest Hartmann Student Awards:
Rachel and Michael Rosen

Honorable Mention winner Nicholas Zink

Honorable Mention winner Nicholas Zink

Qualitative Category:
Polly A. McCann
From Where We Write: Writers’ Self-Awareness through Dream and Memory

Quantitative Category:
Hye Joo Han
How do social networks in dreams differ from waking-life social networks?

Honorable Mention

Quantitative Category:
Rafael Ayala
REM Sleep, Dreams and Attachment Orientation

Honorable Mention
Nicolas Zink
Relationship between Lucid Dreaming, Creativity and Dream
Characteristics

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student winner page 52013 Student Award Winners:
Quantitative Category: Josie Malinowski, “The preferential incorporation of emotional and ‘important’, but not stressful, waking-life experiences into dreams”

Qualitative Category: Laurenţiu Malomfălean, “A dreamland of death: Oneirodystopia, phantoms and hypertext in the last works of William S. Burroughs”

Honorable Mention to the following submissions:

Quantitative Category: Anna Lezon, “Sleep Deprivation and Delusion Proneness: Influence on Dream Bizarreness”

Qualitative Category: Nicholas Atlas, “The Fountain of Youth: Dreaming, Kundalini and the Clear Light”

Darlene Cimino-DeRose, “Projective Dream Work and the Cultivation of Compassion”

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2012 Student Award Winners
The Student Awards Committee presented the 2012 awards to two quantitative researchers:

Isaac Taitz: “Learning Lucid Dreaming and Its Effect on Depression in Undergraduates”
Nils Sandman: “The Prevalence of Nightmares”

2011 Student Award Winners
Category I – Quantitative Research (Science)
Tadas Strumbrys An exploratory study of creative problem solving in lucid dreams: Preliminary findings and methodological considerations

Category II – Qualitative Research (Arts, Literature, Humanities)
Juan Miguel Marín “A shortcut through dreams to the Nobel Prize? Re-assessing Wolfgang Pauli’s “Lucid Platonism” and “Background Physics”

Danielle Pearson – Honorable Mention
Lucie Kracmarova  – Honorable Mention

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2010 Student  Award Winners
Category I – Quantitative Research (Science)
Connie Svob, “Dream Remembering: Theory and Measurement”

Category II – Qualitative Research (Arts, Literature, Humanities)
Linda Mastrangelo, “Animal Dreams”

2009 Student Award Winners
Category I – Quantitative Research (Science)
Winner – Amy Blum: “Gender differences in dreams: Applications to dreamwork with male clients”

Category II – Qualitative Research (Arts, Literature, Humanities)
Winner – Melanie Rosen: “The Narrative Fabrication Theory of Dreams”
Runner-up – Linda Mastrangelo: “The Prima Materia as Golden Shadow”

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2008 Student Award Winners
Category I – Quantitative Research (Science)
Eva Murzyn “Do We Only Dream In Colour? A Comparison of Younger and Older Adults with Different Experiences of Black and White Media.”

Category II – Qualitative Research (Arts, Literature, Humanities)
Winner Ryan Dungan Hurd
“A Treatise on Lucid Nightmares”

2007 Student Award Winners
Category I – Quantitative Research (Science)
Winner: Peter Simor, “Emotional Regulation in Dreaming”
Runner-up: Miloslava Kozmova, “Body Image and Anorexia Nervosa”

Category II – Qualitative Research (Arts, Literature, Humanities)
Winner: Patricia Spangler, “Therapist Dreams about Clients: A Qualitative Investigation of Themes, Exploration, and Use”
Runner-up: Melody Conroy, “Unraveling the Darkness: Dreams in Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur”

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2006 Winners
Category I: Quantitative Research (Science)
Winner – Sheila Asato “The Design of Dreams: How the Healing Collage Process Relates to Dreaming”

Honorable Mention – Marlene Canton “Menopausal Women and their Dreams”

Category II:Qualitative Research (Arts, Literature, Humanities)
Winner – Lana Nassar “Creative Interpretation of a Dream”
No honorable mentions

2005 Winners

Category 1: Quantitative Research (Science)
Winner: Gillian Finocan: “Women’s Use of Dreamwork”

Category II:  Qualitative Research (Arts, Literature, Humanities)
Winner:  Clare Johnson “Lucid Dreaming and Plot Development”