One Sunday morning, when I was four years old, I excitedly said to my family at the breakfast table, "Last night, I flew all the way to the bottom of the stairs, and I didn't even hurt myself." "Ohh," they laughed. "That was just a dream."

Just a dream, I thought sadly and, taking my cue from them, neglected my dreams for the next twenty years. Fortunately, before I reached thirty, my dreaming self woke me up. I have spent the rest of my life trying to recapture and understand the magic of that early dream, somewhat successfully.

In 1984, when The International Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) was formed, I was one of its first members, and one of its first conference presenters. How exciting it was to meet other people with goals similar to mine. At the time, I was director of a consciousness research organization, Poseidia Institute, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Among other things, I conducted dream research.

Although I left the field of dreams shortly after that, to pursue doctoral studies at The American University in Washington, D.C., I was lured back to ASD in the early '90s for the same reason the organization attracted me in the first place: people who were as curious about dreams as I was. I became the Public Bulletin Board host on the ASD web site www.asdreams.org in 1999, and co-chair of the ASD Development Committee in 2001.

A particular interest I have pursued is the ability of people to dream together. Several different group dreaming experiments were conducted over a period of ten years.

More recently, since training in Energetic Metatherapy with Dr. Hector Curi-Kano, my interest has turned to teaching people how to utilize body consciousness while working with dreams. And I have begun to conduct individual sessions and workshops in DreamWork/BodyWork.
Since 9/11, I have moderated a Yahoo group called The World Dreams Peace Bridge (worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com), and I have become CEO of The iMAGE Project, a nonprofit organization.

My all-time favorite dream book, though not entirely a dream book, is Jane Roberts' The Nature of Personal Reality. And my favorite dream of course, the one that started it all, is recounted above.

List of dream-related publications and/or web sites where Jeans work is featured.

Campbell, J. "Beyond Dreaming." Dream Craft. 1:1, 1-2.

__________. "Dealing With Precognitive Dreamer Guilt." http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/campbell/dreamer_guilt. htm

__________. Dreams Beyond Dreaming. Norfolk: Donning, 1980.

__________. "Dreams and the Creative Self." Electric Dreams 6:9, Sep., 1999 http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-backissues/ed6-9.txt.

__________. "Group Dreaming Research Report." Dream Craft 2:2, 1-4.

__________. "The World Dreams Peace Bridge as a Long-Term Journaling Project." Electric Dreams 2002, 9-7. http://dreamgate.com/dream/ed-backissues/ed9-7.txt.

Garfield, P., J. Malamud, J. Campbell, A.S. Wiseman, and G. Halliday. "Mental Health Applications (of Dreams): A Panel Discussion. Presented at ASDII, 1984. http://www.sawka. com/spiritwatch/mental_health_applications.htm.

Zweig,C. and J. Campbell. "'See you in my dreams' test works." Brain/Mind Bulletin 10:1 Oct. 1984, 3.