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Dreams of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:52:39 +0000

Psychologists from Sigmund Freud onwards have usually treated dreams as purely egotistical and self-centered, with no relevance outside the personal wishes of the dreamer. Every four years I try to prove that assumption wrong. In response to my quadrennial request about election-related dreams, several colleagues sent me reports of dreams they have experienced relating to …

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Trouble on the Night Shift: Bad Dreams About Work

Kelly Bulkeley — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:18:29 +0000

“Sleep, the gentlest of the gods, the spirit’s peace, whom care flies from: who soothes the body wearied with toil, and readies it for fresh labors.” That’s how the Roman poet Ovid described sleep in his first century CE masterpiece the Metamorphoses. Many people today desperately seek the restorative blessings of sleep just …

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Who Sleeps Worst in the US? The Surprising Truth

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:35:21 +0000

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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Oregonian Commentary on the Politics of Dreaming

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:10:27 +0000

In today’s Oregonian newspaper I published a commentary piece titled “The politics of dreaming: Even in sleep, Americans show a partisan divide” (4/30/12, p. A9). It’s the latest version of my ongoing study of the interplay of sleep, dreams, and political ideology.

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Dream Recall and Political Ideology: Results of a Demographic Survey

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:14:59 +0000

An article with the title above just appeared in the IASD journal Dreaming, vol. 22(1), March 2012, pp. 1-9. It’s the latest in a series of research projects I began in 1992 on the interaction of politics and dreaming. The abstract for the new paper is below; links to the other projects are below that. …

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Rich Men Dream More About Sex than the Rest of Us

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:36:31 +0000

And they may be better lucid dreamers to. This and other tidbits were made plain in my research for the book American Dreamers. What follows is some of the data that compares sleep, income, and dream content for individuals who mke less than $30/year to those who make more than $100k/year. Sleep, dreams, and economic …

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American Dreamers: Let’s Focus on the Focus Group

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:47:35 +0000

Here is some information about the dreamers who made up the focus group for the research in my book American Dreamers. The 10 members of the “dreamers focus group” Elizabeth is a fifty-eight year old hospital technician from Kentucky who has overcome the challenges posed by two divorces, several alcoholic family members, breast cancer and …

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Is My Dream Research Biased? A Quick Look at Limitations and Suppositions

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:45:44 +0000

When I wrote my book, American Dreamers: What Dreams Tell Us about the Political Psychology of Conservatives, Liberals, and Everyone Else, I expected some resistance such as: Dreams are crazy nonsense. Response: Wrong. Dreams are meaningful expressions of people’s most important concerns, activities, and beliefs in waking life. Anyone who tells you otherwise hasn’t paid …

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American Dreamers: How Sleep, Dreams, and Religion Intersect

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:37:59 +0000

Interested in the ways that sleep, dreams and religion intersect for American Dreamers? Below are some of the data charts from my book American Dreamers. Religious Attendance x Sleep More than once a week Never Sleep Less than 6 hours a night 11 18 6-8.9 hours a night 84 76 More than 9 hours a …

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