animals Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/animals/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png animals Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/animals/ 32 32 Dreaming as Play and as Mind-Wandering https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:59:32 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4590 The neuroscience of dreams has shifted in recent years toward the idea that dreaming can be conceived as a kind of mind-wandering in sleep. According to current evidence, mind-wandering (also known as day-dreaming, or drifting thought) is a product of the “default mode network,” a system of neural regions that remains active in the absence …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/feed/ 0 The Distinguishing Features of Big Dreams https://bulkeley.org/distinguishing-features-big-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/distinguishing-features-big-dreams/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:58:17 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2398 If someone presented you with two sets of dreams, one of most recent dreams and one of highly memorable dreams, you could predict with a high degree of confidence which type of dream was in which set, based only on word usage frequencies. The set with more references to flying, air, family, animals, fantastic beings, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/distinguishing-features-big-dreams/feed/ 1 Animals in Dreams https://bulkeley.org/animals-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/animals-dreams/#respond Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:31:28 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2101 Below is the section on animal dreams from my video talk for the IASD Australian Regional Conference held last week in Sydney.  I would be very interested in hearing from people whose dreams include types of animals NOT mentioned in my findings, to help us develop an even broader sense of oneiro-zoology (yes that’s a …

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