Title: Retired Educator

Location: Seal Beach, Calif.

As a woman in today’s world, she feels that her family has contributed to her success. Her mother, an educator who taught grades first through eighth in one classroom. Her sister, an art education teacher and her brother, a college Physics professor. Dr. Baylis received a Bachelor of Art in education, a Master of Art in psychology and a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia Pacifica University. As a Reading Specialist Teacher Janice worked with the phonics system to teach children to read English. English has 44 sounds and 26 letters. Associating the 44 sounds with letters on a page is complex because each letter may have several sounds depending on what other letters are present.

In 1959, Dr. Baylis’ car-pool passenger, Mabel, phoned at 6 AM asking to change their meeting spot to around the corner. That same morning at 7 AM, Mabel was getting into Janice’s car. They heard a loud CRASH! They rounded the corner and passed their regular meeting spot. There was a small airplane landed upside down in the corner of the store parking lot WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN! Mabel explained that she had dreamed it during that night. Mabel’s life-saving, pre-cognitive, warning dream started Janice on her life-long, self-directed and academic study of dreaming. Her student’s dreams and the Edgar Cayce dream material focused Janice on the practical side of dreaming. At prodding from her students in 1977 she authored “SLEEP ON IT! The Practical Side of Dreaming.”