Hello and welcome. I am Bei Linda Tang, Guided Dreaming and Dreamwork facilitator, author of Navigate Life with Dreams, and founder of Dream Heals. I have experienced the transformative power of dreaming and dreams firsthand in my life, family, and community. Our world is more technologically advanced than ever, yet profoundly struggling with stress, interpersonal and geopolitical conflicts, and environmental crises. Dreaming and dreams can help us restore balance, regulate emotions, and overcome challenges.
What is Guided Dreaming?
Guided Dreaming is a new holistic mental wellness practice utilizing the waking dream trance to improve one's mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Created by Bei Linda Tang based on personal waking dreams during the pandemic, combined with modern dream science, psychology, and dreamwork, Guided Dreaming offers a safe, effective, and accessible process that generates unique dream content to help individuals reduce stress and overcome challenges in life. Tang has worked with over 500 people and twice presented Guided Dreaming workshops at annual conferences at the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD).
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How does Guided Dreaming work?
With breathwork and visualization, Tang guides participants into a serene underwater dream while awake to interact with a friendly octopus. They experience profound relaxation, tension and stress release, and learn mental shapeshifting, a vital skill for regulating emotions and solving problems in daily life. Participants are invited to bring a problem and a helper into the dream and share their waking dreams afterward with the group to explore meanings, insights and solutions.
Evidence-Based Research
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For her master's thesis research in 2024, Tang surveyed 11 self-selected adult volunteers after participating in one Guided Dreaming for Stress Reduction and Problem-Solving workshop. The survey results show:
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All participants experienced waking dreams with unique content, embodied cognition, and positive emotions, despite diverse life circumstances and experiences with mindfulness practice
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91% of the participants reported feeling safe, less stressed, and attaining some problem-solving insights
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A 36% average improvement in self-assessed mental outlook (from 57.8±17.7 to 78.9±23; p=.00067; Cohen's d effect size = 1.03).
About Bei Linda Tang
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Tang is the founder of Dream Heals, author of Navigate Life with Dreams, and IASD's Western Canadian Representative. She holds an MA in Applied Psychology with a concentration in Health and Wellness from Adler University and an MBA from the University of British Columbia. Tang was an investment banker and organic textile merchant. She was born and raised in China, lived in the United States, and has been living on the West Coast of Canada for the past twenty years with her husband, their two children, and her parents.
Who Can Benefit?
Guided Dreaming can help people from all walks of life reduce stress and anxiety, and live happier, healthier and more purposeful lives.
Safety, Privacy, and Ethics
Dreaming is a natural and safe activity. Various forms of dreamwork have been practised worldwide since ancient times. During Guided Dreaming, participants remain conscious and can end the process anytime by opening their eyes.
Similar to nocturnal sleeping dreams, unexpected memories or emotions may surface during a waking dream.
​The dreamer is the ultimate authority on the meaning of their dreams. Dream sharing can help each dreamer understand their dreams and foster peer support. Each person decides what information to share or not share. Participants respect each other's agency and confidentiality.
Dreamwork is not a substitute for psychotherapy outside a clinical setting. For mental health emergencies, please seek mental health and suicide prevention support. The free helpline in Canada and the United States is 988 by phone or text. For health concerns, please consult a medical professional.
Bei Linda Tang is an active member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and adheres to IASD's Ethical Dreamwork and Principles of Community.