Dream research at the School of Metaphysics dates back to the late 1960's. This historical perspective specifically tracks the birth, growth and evolution of the NATIONAL DREAM HOTLINE®. Each year, the last weekend in April, SOM faculty devote an entire weekend to talking to callers about their dreams.
A glance back at significant developments here and abroad arising from the School of Metaphysics' National Dream Hotline®.
Fall 1985 § A small scale Dream Hotline in Springfield, Missouri.
Early 1987 § Successful Dream Hotline in Norman and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Students and Faculty receive over 100 callers' questions and dreams for interpretation.
August 1988 § Dream Hotline went statewide in Oklahoma and was a huge success with media coverage and over 500 calls. Dream Hotlines follow in October 1988 with five schools in the Colorado Area participating and in Detroit, Michigan and South Bend, Indiana in December 1988.
April 1989 § The 1st National Dream Hotline® was conceived and birthed.
March 1990 § USA Today nationally syndicated television spot gives Hotline its first widespread exposure
April 1990 § Prophetic thoughts of Drs. Daniel and Barbara Condron.
April 1992 § National Dream Hotline® mentioned in Glamour magazine and in USA Today newspaper. Broadcast around the world on Voice of America radio stations.
April 1993 § BBC interviews Dr. Barbara Condron.
October 1994 § Dream Education Day is SOM's first offering for the annual "Make a Difference Day" sponsored by USA Today newspaper. November § Understanding Your Dreams, a primer for dream interpretation in the Universal Language of Mind, is published.
April 1995 § Dreamer's Dictionary is published becoming a resource book for dreamers everywhere.
April 1996 § First dream surveys mailed to thousands around the world § Radio shows in Hong Kong, Russia, and Australia help our research span the globe
April 1997 § Paul Harvey talks about the National Dream Hotline® for the first time.
April 1998 § The Today Show broadcasts a live remote interview with Dr. Daniel Condron from the College of Metaphysics on the Saturday of the National Dream Hotline®. Seventeen Magazine publishes the Hotline number in its new "Calendar"
This year Paul Harvey calls the dream interpreters "Dreamologists" as he announces the hotline on his noonday show.
§ Dr. Daniel Condron interviewed live on Japanese radio. NY Bureau Chief of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun travels to Windyville, Missouri to interview Drs. Daniel and Barbara Condron. Barbara prepares "A World of Dreams", a 25-year film retrospective of the School of Metaphysics research into dreaming, available on VHS.
April 1999 § www.dreamschool.org makes its debut as the website for interpreting your dreams
April 2000 § lifetimetv.com chooses The Dreamer's Dictionary for its dream decoder. October 2001. Interpreting Dreams for Self Discovery is published to aid others to utilize their dreams at every stage of life from birth to after death
April 2002 § Dream interpretation focuses on dreams about September 11th, 2001
April 2003 § Email response to Hotline births Dream of the Month Club
September 2004 § Every Dream Is About The Dreamer is published. It has over 100 dreams interpreted in the Universal Language of Mind from www.dreamschool.org.
April 2005 § Women's World publishes info on hotline prompting an additional weekend to accommodate calls
April 2006 § National Dream Hotline® births regular dream interpretation radio program in Michigan
April 2007 National Dream Hotline® expands into a weekend of dream interpretation on the phone, the radio, at shops and malls across the Midwest. The first GLOBAL LUCID DREAMING EXPERIMENT is conducted Sunday morning April 29th to explore lucid dreaming and inner level consciousness. One hundred and eight people from three countries participate in this first experiment.
April 2008 Dream work begins in earnest at the first of the year as a four-part GLOBAL LUCID DREAMING EXPERIMENT studying the affect of the Moon on our dreams begins. As this begins we receive word that SOM President Dr. Laurel Clark has been asked to present the paper from this experiment at the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) conference in Montreal in July.
April 2009 Dream Awareness Weekend is celebrated throughout the Midwest as murals are painted on the sides of local businesses, "dream teams" interpret dreams at coffee shops and malls, and dream lectures around town answer dreamers' questions. At SOM Headquarters the National Dream Hotline® serves hundreds while over a hundred dreamers incubate opportunities in the present economy during a GLOBAL LUCID DREAMING EXPERIMENT. Later in the month, the first REAL TIME with a TEACHER premieres as an online forum for dreamschool scholars. In June, Dr. Clark makes two presentations at the annual IASD Conference in Chicago. Dr. Barbara Condron premieres a film about Emotions in Dreams and reports on a GLiDE Study comparing U.S. dreamers with counterparts worldwide. Dr. Daniel Condron presents findings on the effect of mental disciplines on dreaming.
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