Since IASD began in the early 1980s, it has provided a home for dreams: for researchers exploring the nature of sleep and dreaming, for psychotherapists working to learn more about the dreams in order to work with clients, and for a wide variety of people from many countries and walks of life who are dreamers. All of these people see the dream as a valuable path toward self-understanding and toward exploring a complex universe.
In IASD, dreamers work together. We are more than an organization—we're a worldwide community of scientists, artists, therapists, educators, and seekers who believe dreams matter.
This year, as IASD rebuilds after the pandemic years, we've set a goal of $30,000 to sustain our programs in research, education, outreach, and the arts. Your contribution keeps the dream community thriving—supporting creativity, inclusiveness, and discovery across the globe.
In addition to supporting office and web-related operations, nearly every IASD award is made possible by generous members and friends during our annual Pledge Drive. Each year we fund diversity and student conference scholarships, three student research awards, and awards for the best dream-related art. Recent IASD Dream Science Foundation Research Grants have supported projects on topics including Nightmare Disorder and EMDR therapy, Impactful Dreams, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, and the Dreams of College Students of Color and First-Generation Immigrants.
If IASD has enriched your professional practice or expanded your knowledge of dreams, we invite you to give back during this year's Pledge Drive. Your support ensures that future dreamers, researchers, and practitioners can benefit as you have.
The 2025 Pledge Drive runs from mid-November through the end of January. Each tax-deductible gift helps ensure that IASD remains a home for dreamers—one that educates, inspires, and connects us all.
Thank you for helping us keep the dream alive!
Deirdre Barrett, IASD President
The programs which IASD provides through your donations are the heart of the organization. Six donation categories are offered for your funding preference: Dream Research, Dream Education, Outreach to Dreamers, Dream Arts, IASD Diversity, and General Operations.
Dream Research:
This category includes the Dream Science Foundation Research Grants, which encourage new research in the field of dream study.
Dream Education:
In addition to funding the Rev. Jeremy Taylor Memorial Education Fund which provides conference and educational scholarships, these education donations offer course development funding for such programs as the Dream Study Groups Program, programs for young people, and the development of other new online programs.
Outreach to Dreamers:
Through our outreach programs we offer low-income and student memberships as well as partial conference scholarships, to those in financial need. The Ernest Hartmann Student Research Award is one primary means by which IASD offers annual awards to encourage participation from young dreamers..
Dream Arts:
The IASD Art Awards are designed to promote and fund the juried Dream Art Exhibition at IASD's annual conference and to encourage the development of dreamers in all areas of the visual arts.
IASD Diversity:
This category supports IASD’s pledge to grow an intentional inclusive process for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) with expertise or interest in dreams, expand the ethnic diversity of the IASD and increase the ethnic diversity of invited speakers at future conferences. It also supports programs such as Diversity training for the IASD Board and Staff, DEI dream research grants, BIPOC conference scholarships, and Culture-Keeper memberships. Click here for the Dreams and Ethnicity portal.
General Operations:
Categories of funding such as Staff and Board Development Programs and supplemental programs, as well as upgrades in web-related services are funded by this important area of donations.
Please Note: If your donation preferences are not reflected by the above choices, a category labeled "other," with a dialog box is also available for your use on the Pledge/Donation form.
Disclaimer: IASD invites you to state your preferences for your donated funds by selecting one or more of the donation categories listed above. Your guidance will help us to direct the funds which we base on donor preferences as well as the most urgent need.
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IASD receives donations year-round.
Here are the names of people who donated between
last year's Pledge Drive and this year's.
Nancy Weston
Franklyn Innis
Tzivia Gover
Layne Dalfen
Justina Lasley
Geoff Nelson
Robert Hoss
Robert Moss
Victoria Rabinowe
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