SDDb Research Notes Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/sddb/ Dream Research & Education Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:36:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png SDDb Research Notes Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/sddb/ 32 32 Dream Library construction update https://bulkeley.org/dream-library-construction-update/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-library-construction-update/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:36:05 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4608 The remaining exterior work at the Dream Library is down to roofing and painting. The focus will turn soon to the interior finish work of electrical, plumbing, and bookcase installation. Designing and installing a spiral staircase from the second floor to the third floor tower will be a special aesthetic and practical task. When the …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-library-construction-update/feed/ 0 The Nightmares of Halloween https://bulkeley.org/the-nightmares-of-halloween/ https://bulkeley.org/the-nightmares-of-halloween/#respond Tue, 26 Oct 2021 23:52:58 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4379 It’s more than a metaphor to say that Halloween is a time when our nightmares go on parade. The scary images, decorations, and costumes that take over the month of October have a direct psychological connection to the actual themes and patterns of people’s nightmares. If we look at current research on nightmares—who has them, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-nightmares-of-halloween/feed/ 0 Friendly Dreams https://bulkeley.org/friendly-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/friendly-dreams/#respond Sun, 03 Oct 2021 22:59:54 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4349 Dreams with explicitly sexual and/or violent interactions tend to get the most attention, but dreams actually tend to have surprisingly high proportions of friendly content, too. According to an analysis of the nearly 35,000 dream reports collected in the Sleep and Dream Database, 47% of the women’s dreams have at least one reference to a …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/friendly-dreams/feed/ 0 Aggression in Dreams https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:54:48 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4309 Hitting, fighting, chasing, shooting, killing—these are not only common themes in the news each day, they are also recurrent features of our dreams at night. Few studies have focused specifically on aggression in dreaming, even though Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, claimed that “the inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/feed/ 0 Christmas Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/christmas-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/christmas-dreaming/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:27:47 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4238 Dreams during the holidays bring happy memories, and recurrent anxieties. The holiday season brings many anticipated pleasures, and many reasons for worry. Our dreams about Christmas express both happiness and anxiety, eagerly looking forward to the holiday but also expressing recurrent worries about every possible thing that could go wrong. The Sleep and Dream Database …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/christmas-dreaming/feed/ 0 The New Dream Studies and the Wall Street Journal https://bulkeley.org/the-new-dream-studies-and-the-wall-street-journal/ https://bulkeley.org/the-new-dream-studies-and-the-wall-street-journal/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:33:36 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4194 Dream researchers are creatively deploying a variety of big data technologies to open a new era of oneiric discovery. An article appeared earlier today by Robert Lee Hotz, science reporter for the Wall Street Journal, titled “New Insights into Dreams and What They Say About Us.” It’s a great article, well-written and thoroughly researched, and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-new-dream-studies-and-the-wall-street-journal/feed/ 0 Basic Patterns in Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/basic-patterns-in-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/basic-patterns-in-dreaming/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:08:01 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4078 The basic patterns of dream content are coming into sharper focus, thanks to new technologies of digital analysis. By using these tools to study large and diverse collections of high-quality dream data, and then making those tools and data publicly available, we can illuminate recurrent frequencies of dream content that others can easily review, replicate, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/basic-patterns-in-dreaming/feed/ 0 Empathy and Dream-Sharing: New Research Shows a Connection https://bulkeley.org/empathy-and-dream-sharing-new-research-shows-a-connection/ https://bulkeley.org/empathy-and-dream-sharing-new-research-shows-a-connection/#respond Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:19:19 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3876 Dreams, like good pieces of fiction, can induce empathy about other people’s lives. What happens in your mind when you share a dream with another person? When they share a dream with you? How does dream-sharing impact or influence the way you think? Modern psychologists have developed many different models of how dreams are formed …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/empathy-and-dream-sharing-new-research-shows-a-connection/feed/ 0 Reflecting on my 2018 Dream Journal https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/ https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/#respond Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:18:28 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3785 The value of keeping a dream journal is inherent in the practice itself. Simply recording your dreams on a regular basis will increase your dream recall, deepen your self-knowledge, and help you maintain emotional balance in waking life. You can enjoy these benefits even if you never look back at your journal after recording each …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/feed/ 0 What Do People Think About Dreams? Preview of a New Survey https://bulkeley.org/what-do-people-think-about-dreams-preview-of-a-new-survey/ https://bulkeley.org/what-do-people-think-about-dreams-preview-of-a-new-survey/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 22:12:39 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3722 A new survey reveals the wide range of attitudes that contemporary Americans hold towards dreaming.  It might seem that in dreams you enter a purely subjective realm, a world of total solipsism in which nothing exists but the individual self.  Yet the more we learn about dreaming, the more we realize how deeply it is …

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