age Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/age/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 31 May 2021 22:54:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png age Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/age/ 32 32 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 More Dream Recall During the Covid-19 Pandemic https://bulkeley.org/more-dreaming-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://bulkeley.org/more-dreaming-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:45:17 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3953 A new survey shows a rise in dream recall, especially among younger people.  In the past month, about 30% of the American adult population has experienced an increased frequency of dream recall. Twice as many younger people (ages 18-34) as older people (55+) are remembering more dreams than usual. Those are among the initial findings from …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/more-dreaming-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/feed/ 0 Attitudes Towards Dreaming: New Research https://bulkeley.org/attitudes-towards-dreaming-new-research/ https://bulkeley.org/attitudes-towards-dreaming-new-research/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:50:06 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3841 A new study explores the demographic variables that correlate with positive vs. negative attitudes towards dreams. In the latest issue of the International Journal of Dream Research, Michael Schredl and I published the results of a new study on people’s attitudes towards dreaming. Several studies have been done previously looking at differences in people who …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/attitudes-towards-dreaming-new-research/feed/ 0 Dreaming in Adolescence: A “Blind” Word Search of a Teenage Girl’s Dream Series https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/#respond Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:25:14 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2748 Here’s a pdf file of the word search study I did with “Bea,” published in Dreaming (2012), Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-252:   Dreaming in Adolescence            

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/feed/ 0 Sexual Dreaming Before Sexual Activity https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/ https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:26:10 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2742 Sexual dreams have long been part of human experience, as we know from historical sources.  For example, the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus, an ancient manual of dream interpretation, devoted several pages to the various types and classes of sexual dreams.   However, we do not know how widespread sexual dreams are, who has them most often, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/feed/ 0 We Have a Winner! https://bulkeley.org/winner/ https://bulkeley.org/winner/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:03:42 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2432 Congratulations to Michael Paul Coder, the winner of the dream research contest I posed last week.  Michael correctly identified the gender, age, and dream type of six sets of dreams using only word search frequencies and my baseline hypotheses to make his inferences.  He also correctly identified the bonus questions of which sets of dreams …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/winner/feed/ 1 A Dream Research Contest https://bulkeley.org/dream-research-contest/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-research-contest/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:36:34 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2416 To help test the initial hypotheses arising from the SDDb baselines, I am offering a dream research contest, open to anyone willing to give it a try.  The first person to send me (at bulkeleyk@gmail.com) the correct answers will win a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com.   The contest challenges you to look at the …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-research-contest/feed/ 1 Who Sleeps Worst in the US? The Surprising Truth https://bulkeley.org/sleeps-worst-us-surprising-truth/ https://bulkeley.org/sleeps-worst-us-surprising-truth/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:35:21 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2270 An excellent guest post on Ryan Hurd’s Dream Studies website by A.L. Castonguay looks at sleep as a misunderstood public health issue.  Specifically, who in America is sleeping relatively well, and who is sleeping poorly?  The latter group is important to identify because inadequate sleep can lead to physical, emotional, and cognitive problems–not to mention …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/sleeps-worst-us-surprising-truth/feed/ 1 Lucid Dreaming Quiz Answers https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-quiz-answers/ https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-quiz-answers/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:43:28 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1731 Who is more likely to say they have had a dream of being aware they are dreaming: Men or women?  Women 66.8%, Men 59.8% People between the ages of 30 and 49 or people age 65 and older?  Between 30 and 49 68.6%, 65+ 54.8% Whites, African-Americans, or Hispanics? Hispanics 67.3%, Whites 62.4%, African-Americans 58.9% …

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