Children's Dreams Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/dream-research/childrens-dreams/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 31 May 2021 22:56:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png Children's Dreams Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/dream-research/childrens-dreams/ 32 32 The Natural Wisdom of Children’s Dreams https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:19:20 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4306 Dreaming is a natural and normal part of children’s lives as they grow and develop. Vivid dreams can appear in children as young as two or three years old. Many preschoolers between four and six years olds have frequent dream recall, and occasionally terrifying nightmares. As children develop cognitively and socially, their dreams become longer, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/feed/ 0 Children’s Dreams Interview with Anne Hill https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-interview-anne/ https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-interview-anne/#respond Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:26:37 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2557 A couple of weeks ago Anne Hill, host of Dream Talk Radio, invited me to talk about the book I recently co-authored with my mother, Children’s Dreams: Understanding the Most Memorable Dreams and Nightmares of Childhood (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).  Here’s a Youtube link to our discussion, which I thought was really fun.  Below I’ve posted …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-interview-anne/feed/ 0 Children’s Dreams: A Word Search Analysis (part 5) https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-5/ https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-5/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:03:45 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1912 From numbers to narrative: The SDDb makes it easier than ever to combine quantitative and qualitative modes of dream research.  It’s possible to look only at numbers when studying dreams, just as it’s possible to look only at their narrative qualities.  But now that digital archives provide the ability to do both in a variety …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-5/feed/ 4 Children’s Dreams: A Word Search Analysis (part 4) https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-4/ https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-4/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 20:28:58 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1897 To summarize the results of the word search analysis so far: The dreams of this group of 622 children ages 8-18 have more references to family, animals, and fantastic beings, more happiness and sadness, and more flying as compared to the Hall and Van de Castle “norm dreams” of young adults. As mentioned earlier, it …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-4/feed/ 1 Children’s Dreams: A Word Search Approach (part 3) https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-3/ https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-3/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 23:23:14 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1879 In a couple of recent articles (here’s one) I’ve developed and tested a set of 40 word categories to help in studying dreams via word searches. These categories are still a work in progress, but already they’ve proven useful in accurately mapping out some basic content patterns in people’s dreams. A template with these 40 …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-3/feed/ 3 Children’s Dreams: A Word Search Analysis (part 2) https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-2/ https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-2/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 19:57:00 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1874 Once you’re ready to perform a word search analysis—once you’ve formulated a question, chosen a dream series, and acknowledged the limits of your approach—you have to decide the length of the dream reports you’re going to study.  If you search for reports of any length, your results will include lots of short reports saying “none,” …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search-2/feed/ 1 Children’s Dreams: A Word Search Analysis (part 1) https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search/ https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-word-search/#respond Mon, 16 May 2011 20:40:48 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1810 I’ve just begun a new project using word search methods to study dream reports from children and adolescents.  I thought that showing in real time the steps of my analytic process might help other people learn how to apply these methods to their own dream studies. Any research project starts with a question.  In this …

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