Comments on: Sleep and Dream Patterns of Political Liberals and Conservatives https://bulkeley.org/sleep-dream-patterns-political-liberals-conservatives/ Dream Research & Education Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:57:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/sleep-dream-patterns-political-liberals-conservatives/#comment-244 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:57:54 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1357#comment-244 In reply to biophil.

Good point, these are earlier writings that I’m just now posting to the revised website.

The study from 1996-2000 included a finding that conservatives had more nightmares than liberals. The study using dreams gathered from 2000-2004 showed a roughly equal number of nightmares among cons and libs.

Those projects were limited by small sample sizes (56 in the earlier, 234 in the later). If you’re interested, I describe a bigger study of con/lib differences in sleep and dreaming in my 2008 book American Dreamers.

]]> By: biophil https://bulkeley.org/sleep-dream-patterns-political-liberals-conservatives/#comment-243 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:13:17 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1357#comment-243 I don’t understand the time line of these postings.. in this one you say that “Liberals and conservatives report a roughly equal proportion of bad dreams and nightmares. This is different from my earlier study (using dreams gathered from 1996-2000), when the conservatives had many more nightmarish dreams than the liberals.” and in http://bulkeley.org/strange-politics-dreaming/ which was posted on the same day Nov 29th you say “What does it mean that conservative Republicans have almost three times as many nightmares as do liberal Democrats? I suppose that the former is the more recent, but this is not entirely clear..

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