Interpretation Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/dream-interpretation/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 04 May 2025 19:54:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png Interpretation Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/dream-interpretation/ 32 32 Interpreting Dreams with AI-Generated Imagery https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/ https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/#respond Sun, 04 May 2025 19:54:59 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4647 The image-generating power of new AI systems has huge untapped potential for the practice of dream interpretation—and some potential downsides. Even more than AI interpretive texts, the dramatic power of AI interpretive images may open new vistas for exploring the meanings of dreams. The Value of Dream-Sharing The difficulty most of us have in understanding …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/feed/ 0 A Review of Dream Apps https://bulkeley.org/a-review-of-dream-apps/ https://bulkeley.org/a-review-of-dream-apps/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:38:22 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4630 Written by Dan Kennedy of the Elsewhere.to team, this is a very thoughtful survey and evaluation of current apps available for recording and analyzing your dreams. Best Dream Journal Apps of 2025 I’m partial to Elsewhere, of course, but I admire and respect the efforts of every one of these projects. A rising tide of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/a-review-of-dream-apps/feed/ 0 The Meanings of Houses in Dreams https://bulkeley.org/the-meanings-of-houses-in-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/the-meanings-of-houses-in-dreams/#respond Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:51:21 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4605 Houses and homes are among the most frequent elements appearing in dreams, with a wide range of literal and symbolic meanings. According to the Baseline frequencies of the Sleep and Dream Database, 47% of women’s dreams and 42% of men’s dreams include at least one architectural reference, with house, room, and home being mentioned the …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-meanings-of-houses-in-dreams/feed/ 0 Keeping a Dream Journal: Fly Like an Eagle https://bulkeley.org/keeping-a-dream-journal-fly-like-an-eagle/ https://bulkeley.org/keeping-a-dream-journal-fly-like-an-eagle/#respond Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:58:10 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4523 What’s it like to keep a long-term dream journal? These days I’m doing everything I can to help in developing and promoting the new app Elsewhere, an excellent resource for dream journaling. Also, my new book The Scribes of Sleep is about the history of dream journals. Thus, I’m thinking a lot about how to …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/keeping-a-dream-journal-fly-like-an-eagle/feed/ 0 A Dream Before Dying https://bulkeley.org/a-dream-before-dying-anne-underwood/ https://bulkeley.org/a-dream-before-dying-anne-underwood/#comments Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:49:35 +0000 http://madbadcat.org/church/?p=807 Life’s profound problems often get resolved in the sleep  that comes before the final rest, these authors say By Anne Underwood Newsweek Magazine July 25, 2005 issue As a hospice chaplain for 10 years, the Rev. Patricia Bulkley confronted the raw emotions of the dying-their terror at the approaching end, their unresolved family problems, their crises …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/a-dream-before-dying-anne-underwood/feed/ 1 What do Dreams of Snakes Mean? https://bulkeley.org/dream-intepretation-snake/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-intepretation-snake/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:55:43 +0000 http://madbadcat.org/church/?p=810 Below is a chapter about the history of snake dreams, using psychology and religious studies to explore their meanings.  It comes from my book Spiritual Dreaming: A Cross-Cultural and Historical Journey. If you are interested in how to interpret a dream of a snake, you might take a look at this post. If you’d like to know what …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-intepretation-snake/feed/ 199 Dream-sharing among the Founding Fathers https://bulkeley.org/dream-sharing-among-the-founding-fathers/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-sharing-among-the-founding-fathers/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:09:48 +0000 http://madbadcat.org/church/?p=865 John Adams and Benjamin Rush: dream-sharing among the Founding Fathers, told in Joseph J. Ellis’ Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation John Adams-Benjamin Rush 1: Dream-Sharing of the Founding Fathers “Rush set the terms for what became a high-stakes game of honesty by proposing that they dispense with the usual topics and report to each other …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-sharing-among-the-founding-fathers/feed/ 1 Lyndon B. Johnson’s Dreams https://bulkeley.org/lyndon-johnson-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/lyndon-johnson-dreams/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:02:42 +0000 http://madbadcat.org/church/?p=860 Lyndon B. Johnson’s dreams, told in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream Lyndon Johnson 1: Paralysis “[H]e began having, night after night, a terrifying dream, in which he would see himself sitting absolutely still, in a big, straight chair.  In the dream, the chair stood in the middle of the great, open …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/lyndon-johnson-dreams/feed/ 0 Joe Lieberman’s Farewell Dream https://bulkeley.org/joe-lieberman/ https://bulkeley.org/joe-lieberman/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:00:35 +0000 http://madbadcat.org/church/?p=858 “He [Lieberman] was feeling loose now, so much so that he began telling aides about a dream he’d had the other night in which long-dead Democratic Connecticut Governor John Dempsey had walked across a stage and waved at him.  Lieberman was puzzled by the dream.  It was hard not to wonder what his unconscious was …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/joe-lieberman/feed/ 0 Hillary Clinton’s 1994 Dreams https://bulkeley.org/hillary-clintons-1994-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/hillary-clintons-1994-dreams/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:57:45 +0000 http://madbadcat.org/church/?p=855 1994 dreams of Hillary Clinton: article from Detroit News On May 19, 1994 The Detroit News published an article on the front of its “Accent” section titled “I Dream of Hillary,” along with a sidebar article on the recently published book Dreams of Bill by Julia Anderson-Miller and her husband Bruce Miller.  The Hillary dreams …

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