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December 1, 2025 16 mins

Guest host Ryan Wrecker and Bonnie Buckner PhD take calls about different types of dreams such as visitation dreams and her dream exercises.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
And welcome back to Coast to Coast AM. I'm Ryan Recker.
Thank you for the emails. Tonight, Ryanrecker at Coast TOCOASTAM
dot com. Our guest for the next hour will be
taking your calls and if you have calls on dreams,
this would be the time to do it. And our
guest is doctor Bonnie Buckner. You can find her Bonnie
Buckner dot com in her book The Secret Mind. Unlock
the power of dreams and transform your life. Bonnie, you're

(00:27):
a first time guest. We're happy to have you here
on Coast to Coast AM.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
I love being here.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
Are you ready to take some calls?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
Let's give this a try.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
How about we go to the first time caller line
in Morgantown, West Virginia. Don you're on Coast to Coast AM,
go ahead with Bonnie Buckner.

Speaker 6 (00:48):
Well, thank you both. Sincerely, Happy holidays to you and
your family. And I sincerely appreciate your concern for me
and your willingness to help me. Thank you for your kindness, sir,
before quickly I am originally from nine in Van Dyke,
a town called Warren, Michigan, and they's been in Michigan

(01:08):
season ticket holder for over twenty years. Go Blue.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Nonetheless, you felt my sympathy yesterday talking about how the
buck guys beat Michigan.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
If you I was.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
Nable to attend, we always tailgateon park at Pioneer High School.
Unfortunately this year I was unable to go. But we'll
get him next year, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's my dream. Okay, So what kind of dreams are
you having?

Speaker 7 (01:32):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:32):
Thank you and thank you, doctor Buckner. I'm sixty one
now and by myself in the world, just me and
my little dog. I've had this dream so often, twelve
to fifteen eighteen times in the last eighteen years. I've
become cognizant, aware of it occurring. I'm always It's always
at night. I'm in a city, not a city downtown proper,

(01:55):
but within the confines of like wide street car lined
on both sides lamp posts, and I'm lost. I can't
get out.

Speaker 7 (02:06):
Of the city.

Speaker 8 (02:07):
I'll leave the vehicle.

Speaker 6 (02:08):
I'll follow directions to specific location of house somebody needs
to see that can help me to get out of
the city, but never to any avail. I'm kind of
trapped and lost in the city, unable to get home.
I've had to dream, I would think twelve to fifteen,
maybe eighteen times in the last year and a half

(02:31):
again to the point where I've become cognis and aware
of its existence, and I was kind of hoping that
doctor Buckner could help me to interpret or understand why
and if.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
It has any meaning to me. All Right, thank you, Don,
all right, thank you. That's a lot eighteen dreams in
the past year and a half.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Bonnie, Yeah, and Don, Happy holidays to you as well.
And thank you so much for bringing this dream, because
this dream does pop up frequently for people that it
always has different details, but that sense of being in
a place and being lost and.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Unable to get home.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
And it's great to bring this up because I can
give some tips that maybe will help a lot of listeners.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
So thank you for bringing this up.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
One of the things that I teach people to do
is something called a waking dream exercise. And in that exercise,
you know, as I was speaking in the first hour
of the show, is dreams are meant to be dialogued with,
and the way we transform dreams is by dialoguing with them.

(03:42):
So this particular dream has a thing that needs to happen.
I have to get home, and so we have to
find a way to get home. And I want to
just say one little thing here, which is our body
understands homeostasis or health. I gave the example of if

(04:06):
I'm off, if I'm too hot, I sweat. If I'm
too cold, I have the shivers. So our body knows balance,
and it's always working to help us find balance. So
that means that we have within us the tools of
our imagination to help us.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
So the waking dream exercise, after this call don you
can just close your.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Eyes and breathe out three times and re enter the
dream and put your hand in your right pocket and
find the map that's going to lead you back home
and follow that map. So maybe you have a different
kind of map, maybe you have a light that you
find in your right pocket or something like this. But
it's about re entering the dream knowing that now I

(04:55):
have a conscious intent, which is to find the tool
I need to get myself home. Maybe it's even just
re entering the dream and turning around and looking with
this new conscious intent at the street signs a little differently.
Doesn't matter what tool you use. If you simply return

(05:16):
to the dream with the intention of getting home and
knowing that you have tools of your imagination to do so,
you'll find the way to do it and that will
change the dream.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
All right, let's go east of the Rockies and Stan
is in Indiana. Stan, Welcome to Coast to Coast.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Am. You're on with doctor Bonnie Buckner. Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
Oh I Bonnie, I'm stand. I've had that two dreams.
I'm gonna be sixty seven on the twenty second of seven.
But I've got two recent dreams of my mom. She's
passed away back in seven and she stood right on
the edge of my bed and I looked up at her,
and she had like a let's a white right robe,

(05:59):
I'll described of it. And I asked her, I said, Mom,
what do you need? What can I do for you?
And so then that happened again, or she stood in
my bed and I really didn't have any interaction. I
didn't try to have a dialogue. But that's been the
experience that I've had, Bonnie.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
So she doesn't answer you, stand, No.

Speaker 7 (06:20):
She hasn't answered me. She just all she did was
just give me a look. You know, she she stared
at me, but it was.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Definitely yeah, what kind of a look.

Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh it was. It was a caring look, like she
was glad to see me.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
How do you feel about it?

Speaker 7 (06:42):
Well, I miss her. It made me miss her and
it really uh I really wanted to spend more time
with her. And uh so that's what happened.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (06:56):
You know, both my parents were a lot older than
they had me. My dad is the scotch Irish and
he was born thirteen and my mom was born in fourteen,
and they you know, and so it was it was
an amazing thing. All the which of their lives. They
experienced everything that was happening, you know, in the world,

(07:17):
all the inventions and everything. But my parents loved me
very much, and so I missed my mom.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well, you know, Stan, we talked about in the first
part of the show visitation dreams like this and this
caring smile and happy to see you, and that connection
is in and of itself. There's maybe no message needed.

(07:49):
The message is the experience of that moment of reconnection.
And you know, sometimes we can just send please experience
something and that be enough. Like having a little.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Meeting with somebody.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Yeah, all right, thank you very much. We appreciate the call. Stand.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Let's go to the Wildcard line and Tom is in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Tom, go ahead, happy to have you
on the show. You're on with Bonnie Buckner. Oh, Tom
is not there. Let's go back to the Wildcard line
and we'll try John in Phoenix, Arizona. John, you're on
with Bonnie Buckner on Coast to Coast aam, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (08:33):
Hi, thank you Ryan for taking my call. And Bonnie,
I've got a question. I'm in a car and I'm
going down the road and I love this little car.
It was a little stick shift, easily to maneuver. And
I'm going down the highway and I know I got
to make this turnoff to stop in an information center.

(08:53):
Well I missed my turnoff, and I'm going down the road.
I said, next turn, next exit, I'll get off, turn
around and come back up. And when I get to
that next turn off, I go, you know, off the
side of the turnpipe, so to say. And I'm on
this river and it's a wide river and it's choppy,

(09:16):
and you know how in dreams the metaphysical world. Nothing
really is the physics that we know. And instead of
floating down, I'm driving across. So I get to the
far right lanes, I see these semi trucks traveling and
I get off there. I turn off and I'm on
almost like a sidewalk, and I'm looking at these houses.

(09:40):
The water is still so high, it's halfway up the
doorways of these houses. I'm thinking, as I'm supposedly driving,
how is water not going in this house? Well, you know,
I get off to wherever and that was basically the end.
So I, you know, I don't know. I think I'm
in business world. So I'm thinking, you know, my own interpretation,

(10:03):
is this a sign of some choppy water ahead? Or
do you have some other different version?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
John? Thank you so much for calling in with us.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
This is fantastic. So, first of all, for every listener,
I want to say that in the lineage of dreaming
that I teach, we do not interpret. We open out.
And that's really really important because the dreamer is the
expert of the dream. So dreaming, as we teach it

(10:34):
is about regaining your own sense of agency. You are
the agentic dreamer who can make any change you want
to make, and so all I do is I help
you to open out these images and maybe transform something
that's blocked. So choppy water, John, you have a very

(10:57):
good sense already not so much choppy water ahead. If
I'm the secondary dreamer of this dream, I go back
to this turnoff that I miss and if you think
about waters, for me, waters are the moving parts of

(11:19):
my emotions. And so if I miss an information center
that I need to get and I start having an
emotional reaction to it, my waters get choppy, they start rising,
and I never quite get back to where I actually
really need to be because I'm still reacting to the

(11:41):
fact that I missed getting to the information and center
my own centeredness.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
So when I have an emotional reaction to something, I'm
off center.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
So the dream is about getting back to center and
the information that's available to me when I'm centered. So,
as I spoke to Donn at the beginning of our
call in session, this is a great example of a
dream that can be re entered and simply go back

(12:16):
to the moment in the dream when I'm in the
car and I need to make the turn off, and
this time finding a way to turn off Now, the
thing about doing a waking dream exercise. The moment we
begin to dialogue with our dreams, things shift. So when
if I'm doing this and I'm the one dreaming the dream,

(12:38):
I'm back in the car and I'm making the turn
that I need to make to go to the information center,
the whole scene may change. Maybe suddenly I'm in a meadow,
or maybe suddenly I'm in a different location because I've
done what's needed. I made the turn instead of missing it.
So we just stay in dialogue with the dreams and

(13:00):
we know when it's come to a resolution that feels
right to us, and then we can breathe.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Out and open our eyes.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Okay, very good. Let's take another call here. I think
we have time. Let's go to our first time caller
line in William Is at Des Moines, Iowa, William Welcome
to Coast to Coast AM. You're on with Bonnie Buckner.
Oh okay, let's go Mark in Pennsylvania. We'll try that
one instead. Mark, You're on Coast to Coast AM with

(13:30):
Bonnie Buckner.

Speaker 9 (13:31):
Good morning, how are you guys?

Speaker 7 (13:33):
Great?

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Great?

Speaker 7 (13:34):
Thanks.

Speaker 9 (13:35):
So the reason from my call this morning is I
served in Iraq back in two thousand and eight and
received a head injury while I was there. And since then,
I've had several dreams where I am in a different
state or a different country and I see an event

(13:56):
happen back when and Joplin, Missouri was destroyed by a tornado.
I had to dream the night before that I was
there and actually watched it happen.

Speaker 7 (14:11):
Before it was.

Speaker 9 (14:12):
Even on the news or anything like that. And I'm
trying to find out how I can kind of tap
into that a little bit and explore what that is exactly.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well, Hey, Mark, this is a really interesting question and
new experience, new chapter that you've entered in your life
of being present too.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
As I was talking about in the first part of
the show, these the whole interconnected web of things. And
so one of the things that I teach people about
having these sort of premonitions or intuitive.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Moments and dream means is.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
We have to be clear that we are also the receiver.
So it's like a radio. If I'm not fully tuned
in or how I'm tuned in, every radio gets a
message differently, So we have to ask certain questions about
you know, I'm seeing something, but is there is this

(15:25):
an aspect of me or is this an aspect that
I need to attend to. I'll give you an example
of that. I very frequently, when I'm working with people
clients who are trying to start a family, I will
dream that this client is pregnant before the client knows

(15:45):
that they're pregnant, and I will very frequently know the
gender of the child before the.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Parent finds out. So in those cases, and I give
an example of this in.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
The book, I can't blow that surprise for them. It's
not for me to call them and say, oh my god,
you're pregnant and congratulations. It's for me to just simply
note it for myself, and then when they tell me,
then it's made clear to me as my own confirmation.

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