I am Ph.D. student in cognitive, social, developmental psychology at The New School for Social Research, NY. I am also a dream journalist and a dancer. In the past IASD conferences I presented on dreaming tradition in Japanese culture, the relation of dance/movement and space to dreaming, and pregnancy dreams.

My favorite dream ever: The one I had while I was attending a dance workshop in Napa. I'm in a white, church-like building, with a few pillars. To Dubussy's La Mer I jump big jumps (grand jetes), one, two, three... Such a feeling of soaring into the air!

My favorite dream book: Mmm... hard to pick just one. I always liked Ernest Hartmann's Dreams and Nightmares. Although they are not translated into English, I like Tatara Mikihachiro (Japanese clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst/dream specialist)'s works, too.

In summer 2003, I was about to go back to the US for the second time to attend my second graduate program at The New School. At that time I realized that my interests in dreams were one of the most important and came across with the IASD website. The following year, prior to the Copenhagen conference I joined IASD. So Copenhagen was my first conference.
Thereafter, I have been happily with IASD, having attended most international conferences and some regional ones. As a presenter I go back and forth between my interests in culture (Japanese) and much more personal interests, such as dance. I have been keeping a dream journal for over 10 years. I am also a member of World Dreams Peace Bridge.
IASD has always been an international community that has welcomed me. I wish it becomes more and more international. My current efforts are poured into building dream communities in Japan. I am one of the three founding members of "IASD Japan."

Tsuruta, M. (2010, July). Myoe: A Buddhist dreamer. Presented at the 27th annual international conference of IASD, Asheville, NC.

Tsuruta, M. (2009, June). Pregnancy dreams. Presented at the 26th annual international conference of IASD, Chicago, IL.

Tsuruta, M. (2009, March). Do dreams reflect cultural differences in perception? Presented at the 3rd international conference of the Nordic and European Society for the Study of Dreams, Gothenburg Psychotherapy Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Tsuruta, M. (2007, September). Dream sharing in Japan: Past and Present. Dreams and Culture, The 2nd international conference of the Nordic and European Society for the Study of Dreams, Bishop Grossteste University College, Lincoln, U.K.

Tsuruta, M. (2007, July). Folk psychology of dreaming: Japanese dream vocabulary and a pilot study on dream sharing in Japan. Presented at the 24th annual international conference of International Association for the Study of Dreams, Sonoma Valley, CA.

Tsuruta, M. (2006, November). Dreams in trauma and dissociation. Presented at the 22nd international conference of International Society for the Study of Dissociation, Los Angeles, CA.

Tsuruta, M. (2006, June). Moving out of dream, moving into dream: Increasing bodily and spatial awareness in dreams and waking life. Presented at the 23rd annual international conference of International Association for the Study of Dreams, Bridgewater, MA.

Tsuruta, M. (2005). Dreaming in Japan: An introduation to dream practices and dream-related arts in ancient, medieval, and modern Japan. Dream Time, 22 (2), 16-19.

Tsuruta, M. (2005, June). Dreaming in Japan: An overview of dream practices and dream related art in ancient, medieval, and modern Japan. Paper presented at the 22nd annual international conference of International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkeley, CA