Thread: rvdc is one of the ⚘Greatest⚘Psidreamer's ever

rvdc is one of the ⚘Greatest⚘Psidreamer's ever

Dr Robert Leon Van De Castle
begins talking about dreams at the (15:33) point.

(15:33 to17:37) 2 minutes 4 seconds

(15:33)

Interviewer:

Apart from Parapsychology
you are also very well known for your ⚘dream work⚘.
And I'm wondering at what point did the dreamwork begin

(...)

(16:00)

rvdc:

Well, at first is wasn't the logical extention.
I had the interest in Parapsychology.
I was now out at Denver in a (...) teaching position.

Once I graduated
I could teach anything about clinical "psychology".
And so I asked the students,
"what would you like" and they said 'Dreams',

I said, "jees, I dont know anything about dreams"
I really had no exposure to dreams
in my graduate course back at Chaplehill.
A little bit about Freud.

They said "No, we really want to do Dreams"

I said
"I dont know anything about dreams,
you're not hearing me".

They said " No, but we still want to do dreams"

I said:

"Ok, here's the deal

(16:36)

You read-up every week about dreams
and tell me what you learned
and
I will read-up every week about dreams
and tell you what I learned"

Interviewer:

So it was on-the-job training.
Had there been a lot of work done on dreams prior to ...

rvdc:

No, no there was a little bit of work done in 1953.
There was a big breakthrough study done in Chicago
... they put electrodes on the head
and could tell when a person was having a REM period
and when they were dreaming.
"IT" was just begining to be assimulated into mainstream...

Interviewer:

So, Dreamwork was still in its infancy.

rvdc:

Yeah, at that point is was all quite new.

(17:00)

So then I had a chance to,
I was teaching these courses on Personality Testing
So, I thought I could tell pretty much what
the personality testing was saying about people
but I didn't know about dreams.

(17:17)

So now I would give students Personality Tests
and also collect dreams from them.
I found as I went through, I found
I was getting more from the "Dreams"
than I was getting ftom the Personality Testing.

(17:27)

Then there was the chance to work with ⚘Calvin Hall⚘
at that time he (Calvin Hall) was considered
the leading Dream Researcher in the country (USA)

More later DV friends

Here is the (35:55) clip made in 2001
thirteen years befor rvdc died suddenly
from a catastrophic brain stem stroke aged 86

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https://youtu.be/izP0Tu3wCtA

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