The Dreams That Shape Us

*Content Warning: listeners discretion is advised* Join Steve and Ryan Hurd as they explore Ryan's story of facing nightmares in a lucid dream, sleep paralysis, generational trauma, core wounds, and so much more!! They speak to some really hush hush topics within lucid dreaming and the initiations most lucid dreamers fail to arise to when they begin being called deeper. You won't want to miss this deep, vulnerable, and soulful conversation surrounding the darker side of dream life! Ryan Dungan Hurd (he/him) is an educator, author and dream researcher. He is interested in consciousness studies at the intersections of ecology, spirituality and material culture. His latest work is Lucid talisman: Forgotten lore. Ryan has been featured on NPR, CNN, Coast to Coast, Psychology Today, and many more venues. With a background in both archaeology and dream research, Ryan currently leads online workshops at his own Dream Studies Academy and also teaches graduate level courses at several universities. His website DreamStudies.org has been going strong since 2007. He currently lives in Philadelphia, PA. Dream Studies Portal: https://dreamstudies.org Lucid Talisman book:  https://lucidtalisman.com/collections/lore Sound effects: www.freesound.org All original music written and composed by Steve Ernenwein Check out our new "one link to rule them all" for all things related to this podcast and Steve and Jason: www.linktr.ee/dreamsthatshapeus Please rate, review, and subscribe!! 🙏🙏❤️❤️ We love you all! See you next month, third Tuesday! Nighty night!!

Professor Scott Sparrow knocked on Heaven's Door and it opened for him while he was lucid dreaming. A holy light filled him with indescribable love, and it set him on a course in life to return to that place and continue receiving that Light. Dr. Sparrow, an acclaimed author, professor, and dream guru, says that everyone can be blessed with the experience of receiving the Light. He prescribes simple practices spelled out by the renowned psychic Edgar Cayce and used for centuries by Buddhist masters of Dream Yoga. Hint: It involves a lot of meditation. It leads to experiences that were once known to only a relatively few devotees with the guidance from Masters and the discipline of mind and body to break through the barriers that prevent us from seeing and knowing that the Light of Heaven is behind everything in the material and mental worlds. Everything is the Light, but it's something you have to find out for yourself, through your experience. Dr. Sparrow tells us how. Show notes: The DreamStar Community of dream enthusiasts and seekers - https://dreamstar.community/ Leah Noel's podcast - https://www.leah-noel.com/innis Weston Brown Composer - https://www.youtube.com/@relaxationdaily The Dreams That Shape Us official website - https://dreamsshapeus.com Jason's personal website - https://jmdebord.com Steve's music on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/07T9qf6X0grTf2BS0DNQzW

Welcome to our retrospective episode where we take stock in what our podcasting journey has meant for us! We hear from 11 of our guests and what sharing their stories has meant for them, you'll get a slew of behind the scenes stories about some of our episodes, we work a dream of Steve's about doing this episode, you get to hear a secret audio Steve took of Jason and Steve's first conversation after the first episode was finished, all the original music is from previous episodes, lots of heart and bits of silliness, and so much more. It's a beautiful heartfelt ode to the last two years and the true and beautiful family affair it's been. Thank you to everyone who's been listening and thank you to all of our brave and beautiful guests! Follow us on IG: @dreamsthatshapeus . www.dreamsshapeus.com . iPhone listeners: Please leave us a written review on Apple podcasts, it really makes a difference right now where we are at in our growth. Thank you! www.jmdebord.com . Search AQ the Dreamwalker on any streaming service for Steve's music

Join Steve and Alaya as she explores the impactful way that dreams can be the conduit for our ancestors and the divine to put us on our path to do the great work we came here to bring forward! Instagram: @dreamsthatshapeus website: www.dreamsshapeus.com original music composed by Steve Ernenwein. Follow Alaya on IG: @house.of.elishmar

This episode is in honor of Suzanne Stewart, the late wife of our guest Christian Gerike. The story and conversation chronicle the life and death of Suzanne and the dream Christian had the morning she left us. Suzanne passed in July of 2019 after a long journey with Parkinson's. This is a touching conversation on the way dreams companion us in our moments of loss and grief. Instagram: @dreamsthatshapeus website: www.dreamsshapeus.com original music composed by Steve Ernenwein Join Christian's California Dreaming Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/679465678853225/?ref=share Thank you always for listening!

Bob and Jason explore a fascinating lucid dream of Bob's. He had a lot of trepidation in honoring what it was trying to tell him, when one of the wildest stories I've ever heard of synchronicity and the connectivity of our dreaming mind occurs. The story looks at the science, looks at mystifying synchronicity, and offers a powerful example of how we are all so intrinsically connected through (in Bob's words, in a strangers dream) "the body unconscious network." You get to witness how the man who literally wrote the book on the science of dreaming gets swept up in the deep mystery of it all! All original music created by Steve More info on Bob: http://www.dreamscience.org/ Jason: www.jmdebord.com Steve: look up AQ the Dreamwalker on all streaming platforms to listen to my dream inspired music Follow the podcast on Instagram: @dreamsthatshapeus You can find the picture of the queen of cups card that he found on our Instagram page! We preview the trailer for Leah Noel's fiction podcast, The Innis Forgettance, at the end of the episode. https://open.spotify.com/show/7zoQzrSYu3l7wIL1mb1GCU?si=MTm5-EmnTfeUa7MarECFKA&utm_source=copy-link

Maureen shares with us a gorgeous and heart breaking story of how her dreams really came to her aid to help her navigate her mother's 16 year journey with Alzheimer's. And as music is also a powerful agent in bringing lucidity to people in the throes of the illness, it is woven so tenderly throughout these dreams of her mother that gives Maureen the most beautiful vision into what her mother was experiencing that deeply changed the way she saw her mother's illness for good. Find more info on Maureen Boyd Biro: www.lyricaldreaming.com Original music written by Steve Ernenwein. To listen to Steve's album he spoke about: https://steven-m-ernenwein.bandcamp.com/album/the-knowing Jason: www.jmdebord.com Additional music: "The Very Thought of You" - Nat King Cole "We Are the Champions" - Queen. "Hello" - Lionel Richie. "Let it Be" - The Beatles. "Hail Mary, Gentle Woman" - Angelina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85tfBBmbuMc&ab_channel=Angelinasings

Join Jason and I as he recounts a dream that set him on a wild path of discovering answers to the validity of past lives and the awakening of his gift as an author! It's all in the pasta - flavors of synchronicity abound, ancient Kings, sassy southern waitresses, hard looks in the mirror, struggle, awakenings, and a WHOLE lotta spaghetti 🤣🙏 you just wait! Special voice actress - Leah Noel Her upcoming fiction podcast is called "Innis Forgettance" - listen to the trailer here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DykYb576b2Y2MW20pGkFg?si=BN5RDJjdSEa0TR1ajeg_TA&utm_source=copy-link Follow the podcast on Instagram: @dreamsthatshapeus Steve: IG @aq_dreamwalker or search AQ the Dreamwalker in any streaming service to listen to his dream inspired music! J.M. Debord - www.jmdebord.com For pre order of Jason's upcoming book on nightmares, https://www.amazon.com/Nightmares-Guide-Interpreting-Darkest-Dreams/dp/1578597587/

Steve and Mary Jo Heyen explore a series of 3 dreams that helped her uncover pockets of unfelt grief that led to an incredible source of healing for her. She gorgeously relays how tenderly our dreams walk us into this kind of material and how they so deeply companion us there. Two weeks after the release of this episode, Mary Jo quietly left us in the comfort of her home in the company of her beloved, Joe. She was thrilled for this interview to be her final comment on dreams, given that it was the only time she had been specifically asked to come on a show to explore her own dreams and we were so deeply touched to honor her in this way! Rest in the sweetest peace my dear friend. To read Mary Jo's blog, which has more than half a decade of beautiful writing, please visit her website https://maryjoheyen.com/

Content Warning: This episode contains a story involving childhood sexual trauma. Dr Katherine Lawson courageously shares her powerful story of how her dreams helped her overcome her personal experience of childhood sexual trauma. How this recurrent nightmare she had growing up eventually led her to healing and retrieving the little girl inside of her. She hopes that by sharing this story it'll aid in removing the stigma and shame surrounding this topic and give more people the courage to seek the help they need to heal, especially from their dreams. Find more info on Dr Katherine Lawson: https://www.dreamsheal.com/

Join Jason and Dr Jonathan Hyland as they explore an amazing initiatory journey that he went on because of a presence and anxiety he felt arise within his body. It forces him to confront the unconscious on a somatic level versus strictly from an ideological standpoint. We find that this affliction eventually leads him into a deep relational experience with the unconscious and a wealth of understanding of its relationship to his conscious self. It's a fascinating story that will potentially pretzel your mind and stretch your understanding of yourself, consciousness, and deep mystery of it all.  More info on Dr. Hyland - www.thedreamsdoctor.com ; IG - @thedreamsdoctor JM Debord - www.jmdebord.com Steve - IG - @aq_dreamwalker ; For my new dream inspired album, "The Knowing," search AQ the Dreamwalker on your favorite music streaming app.  Follow the podcast on IG @dreamsthatshapeus Edited by JM Debord Original music written and performed by Steven Ernenwein Features Snippet of "Morning Bell" by Radiohead

If you're curious how our ancestors cultivated so much knowledge about the medicinal value of plants, Val, an herbalist, shares with us how the plants have been communicating with her through her dreams on special, non-traditional uses, offering strength and guidance, and she even shares a gorgeous dream of how they called her to the path of herbalism! We also talk quite a bit about animals as guides, waking dream experiences with animals and wild nature, and about how dreams and the spirit of life itself call us into our purpose through dreams. It's a beautiful conversation full of value, beauty, meaning, and deep communion with the natural world and our dreams. Won't want to miss it! For more info on Val - her bitters, teas, classes, and her new podcast, the Healers Moon podcast visit www.woodspells.com you can also follow her on Instagram @woodspell.apothecary. Follow us on Instagram @DreamsThatShapeUs

Jason and Ian explore Ian's work around reintroducing all 5 senses into dreams, especially lucid dreams, through awakening those neural pathways again. Ian shares a few fascinating dreams, one that really stretches ideas about how the lucid state and reality can touch and a prophetic dream that saved his and his daughter's life! www.jmdebord.com. For more info on Ian Wilson https://dreamingforgamers.com/ join us on Instagram @dreamsthatshapeus

Cohost Steve is delivered a powerful directive in a lucid dream on how to come into his power that opened a deeply initiatory experience in his life. Its an experience that has deeply reshaped his life forever and nascent within the journey was the discovery of the medicine and beauty he is being tasked to offer this world. And the guiding myth that not only informs this initiatory process but also his medicine is the story of the Grinch. This story is sure to rock you, break your heart, and then grow it 3 sizes. For the early listen to Steve's new dream inspired music album, The Knowing, https://steven-m-ernenwein.bandcamp.com/album/the-knowing . To listen to the inner victim song from his last album: https://steven-m-ernenwein.bandcamp.com/track/inner-victim . Join us on Instagram @dreamsthatshapeus

This episode is sure to rock you right in the chest. Our guest Matt Cochran shares with us his story of having a dream encounter with a beautiful pronghorn Antelope and then, through a very touching synchronicity, his dream actually manifests in waking life. Both the dream and waking encounter open his grief in a powerful way and as he continues to explore the animal in his waking life, deeper truths emerge as to why it had to be the antelope to come to his aid in this way. You will not want to miss this incredibly beautiful story, it will leave its mark on you! For More info on Matt: www.Ravendreamtracking.org or IG: @ravendreamtracking JM Debord: www.jmdebord.com Steve: IG - @aq_dreamwalker follow the podcast itself on IG: @dreamsthatshapeus

Join Jason as he conducts our first love story, interviewing the couple about a possible shared flying dream experience they had over a decade ago and fatefully found each other through a post Cougar rattled off to the reddit community seeking to find the girl of his dream! Mariah finds his post and these two quite quickly and sweetly fall in love. It's a very sweet story, if you want a feel good cutesy story, this is it💗

Join Steve and Leilani and get a firsthand look at what an actual group dreamwork session looks like. Leilani invited Steve to participate in a recorded projective style group dreamwork session for an episode of her own podcast, The Dreamers' Den (Soon to be renamed Turning Season). The group helps Steve receive a massive breakthrough in him touching base with one of his deepest pockets of grief. It's an amazing look at what shadow work and grief work looks like and the amazing care and beauty that dreams take in waking us into these spaces. Find all the episodes of the Dreamers' Den at www.thedreamersden.org and all of Leilani's other offerings and search for Turning Season to listen to the future of her podcast. We hope you enjoy!

Join Leilani while she shares her journey with autoimmunity and how her dreams offer her several poignant dreams to help her better relate to her autoimmune hypothyroid condition. And continues as it leads her to a deep ancestral understanding of not only her inheritance of this condition, but sparks a peaceful warriors credo within her to face humanity's collective autoimmune disorder with. Listen to Leilani's podcast - The Dreamers' Den on any streaming platform. Or find more info out at www.thedreamersden.org

Join hosts Steve and Jason as Steve relays a series of poignant dreams that aided him in his process of healing his father wound, his relationship with his father, and finally owning the duty of honoring his worth, creative fire, and Anima. It's a truly touching story! Star Wars fans will be tickled as several of the dreams Steve shares are Star Wars themed and relay some deeply felt relational experiences for him to better understand this wound and how to heal it! Steve reimagines a few of the classic Star Wars songs to really bring the dreams and their haunting beauty alive.

In observation of Father's Day, we bring you this very special story where our guest, Jim, has a powerful prophetic dream about two kids the dream says are going to be his. This is 3 years before he and his wife even begin the process to adopt and after a series of fateful occurrences they are brought together! This is a beautiful ode to fatherhood, sacrifice, and belonging, we hope you are touched and share this with your daddy!

Do you have a difficult life decision before you?! Lese was given by her boss less than 24 hours to decide if she was going to stay at her job, the Wall Street Journal, or leave! Listen and find out how Steve and Lese have used their dreams many times over to make decisions that have had far reaching impact! The 3 of us (Jason included) also share very powerful dreams about a particular spiritual figure (wink wink) and think you'll be as blown away as we all were to share them with each other! Find Lese's newspaper at http://newsun.com

Fellow podcaster on extraterrestrial and paranormal happenings, Wendy Garrett, shares with us a dream encounter she had with the Men in Black that thrust her towards her calling in that arena! Jason and Wendy dive headfirst into the rabbit hole of the paranormal. Join them as they explore the many dreams and wild waking experiences of Wendy Garrett! Wendy's podcast: Wendy's Coffeehouse. Wendy's Website: www.wendyscoffeehouse.com. For more on Jason: www.jmdebord.com. For Steve's music: search AQ the Dreamwalker on your favorite streaming service

Erin, in the throes of an abusive relationship, has a powerful dream that initiates the process of her reclaiming herself, her power, and ultimately leaving the relationship. Steve and Erin explore warning dreams, toxic masculinity, power and powerlessness, and at the end, each offer a look at how they both have been confronting and reimagining masculinity within themselves. A conversation you won't want to miss!

Laurel shared many extraordinary experiences with her husband John. When they were physically apart they would meet up in their dreams. They shared a wavelength of deep love and deep interest in dreams and metaphysics. Then John died and they continued to meet up in her dreams. Laurel's incredible story proves that dreams really do shape us.

In the thick of Post Partum Depression in the summer of 2017, Leah has an eruption of psychic material surrounding the Amazon Woman archetype. We deeply explore why she is showing up and uncover how the process of her arrival has been working her the past few years. This is an unique episode where it is more of a dreamworking session, where she has had little understanding of the true nature of why these dreams had come to her and you get to experience all the major epiphanies she has right alongside her!

Rochelle started dreaming about a friend she hadn't spoken with in years, and to her great surprise she discovered that the dreams accurately described his life: his impending marriage, the birth of his daughter, his daughter's name. One time she even shared a dream with his wife. As the interview unfolds she reveals these aren't the only extraordinary dreams she's had, and her view of life and the world has changed because of them. The co-hosts of The Dreams That Shape Us are J.M. DeBord and Steven Ernenwein. 

Co-hosts Steven and Jason share the dreams and experiences that enticed them down the rabbit hole and led to becoming dreamworkers. They find out that some dark history in both of their families compelled them and played out in their dreams.

Brenda shares with us a revelatory dream she had some twenty odd years ago that changed her life and the relationship she has with herself and daughter forevermore! It's a beautiful story, we hope you enjoy it. Interview by Steven Ernenwein Narration by JM DeBord Original music by Steven Ernenwein (IG: @aq_dreamwalker) Recording and Editing by both JM, Steven Brenda's website: https://brendaferrimanidreamart.com/ Find books by JM Debord on Amazon or www.jmdebord.com and his Dream School at www.dreamschool.net Find Steve's dream inspired hip hop and singer songwriter music on all major streaming platforms under AQ the Dreamwalker.

Linda Yael Schiller faced one of the biggest decisions of her life, whether or not to adopt a child. She consulted her dreams and they responded with a fascinating answer. Hear how her decision shaped her life. Interview by JM DeBord. Narration by Steven Ernenwein Original music by Steven Ernenwein (IG: @aq_dreamwalker) Recording and Editing by both JM, Steven Linda's website: www.lindayaelschiller.com Find more on JM's work at www.jmdebord.com and his Dream School at www.dreamschool.net Find Steve's dream inspired hip hop and singer songwriter music on all major streaming platforms under AQ the Dreamwalker.

Susanne shares with us a series of dreams that have helped her prepare for the death of her sister, who sadly left us this past summer of 2020 to pancreatic cancer. Steven and Susanne have a heartfelt discussion about these dreams and surrounding this particular cancer, as Steven's late grandmother passed from it, as well. This episode is an ode to all the ones we've lost to cancer and the ones whom they left behind.  Interview by Steven Ernenwein Narration by JM DeBord Original music by Steven Ernenwein (IG: @aq_dreamwalker) Recording and Editing by both JM, Steven  Susanne's website: www.mindfunda.com Find books by JM Debord on Amazon and his Dream School at www.dreamschool.net Find Steve's dream inspired hip hop and singer songwriter music on all major streaming platforms under AQ the Dreamwalker.

In our inaugural episode we offer for you the story of Harper, whose dreams showed him a future where he could live again with vigor and health. Interview by JM DeBord Narration by Steven Ernenwein. Original music by Steven Ernenwein (@aq_dreamwalker) Theme music snippet from The K Project Closing song - "Freaking Out" by Mystery Skulls Recording and Editing by both JM & Steven Find books by JM Debord on Amazon and his Dream School at www.dreamschool.net Find Steve's dream inspired hip hop and singer songwriter music on all major streaming platforms under AQ the Dreamwalker.