art Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/art/ Dream Research & Education Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:30:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png art Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/art/ 32 32 David Lynch, Epic Dreamer: In Memoriam https://bulkeley.org/david-lynch-epic-dreamer-in-memoriam/ https://bulkeley.org/david-lynch-epic-dreamer-in-memoriam/#respond Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:30:01 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4611   “Dreamy” is one of the adjectives most often used to describe the cinematic art of David Lynch, and justifiably so. Below are two journal articles I have written about his works in which I explore and celebrate his aesthetic dreaminess, especially in the films Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, and the television series …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/david-lynch-epic-dreamer-in-memoriam/feed/ 0 Jung, Flying Saucers, and the Anxieties of Our Time https://bulkeley.org/jung-flying-saucers-and-the-anxieties-of-our-time/ https://bulkeley.org/jung-flying-saucers-and-the-anxieties-of-our-time/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:13:54 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4234 How archetypal dreams, visions, and art respond to a collective crisis. One of the last books he ever wrote, C.G. Jung’s Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1957) shows how psychology can shed new light on social anxieties and cultural conflicts. This slender text offers Jung’s perspective on the controversial …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/jung-flying-saucers-and-the-anxieties-of-our-time/feed/ 0 The Art of Interpreting Dreams https://bulkeley.org/the-art-of-interpreting-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/the-art-of-interpreting-dreams/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:06:45 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3800   If you woke up one morning with a vivid dream in mind, who could help you understand it? Do you know anyone who specializes in dream interpretation? In earlier times you could bring your dream to a local shaman, sage, or priest. During the 20th century you could consult with a psychoanalyst or some …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-art-of-interpreting-dreams/feed/ 0 New Dream Research in 2019 https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-research-in-2019/ https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-research-in-2019/#respond Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:51:16 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3751 Dreaming, play, theater, science, religion, social and political crisis. Jung, Freud, Shakespeare, a troupe of immigrant artists, Alice in Wonderland, Lucrecia de Leon, the US President. These are the topics and the people I will be discussing most frequently in a series of presentations lining up for 2019.  Each presentation will speak directly to the interests of a …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-research-in-2019/feed/ 0 What Dreams Reflect in Your Waking Life https://bulkeley.org/dreams-reflect-waking-life/ https://bulkeley.org/dreams-reflect-waking-life/#respond Wed, 30 May 2018 23:06:10 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3611 New research highlights 13 areas of continuity between waking and dreaming. Since 2009 I have been experimenting with word search technologies to identify meaningful patterns in people’s dreams, using an empirical method that others can test, replicate, and verify.  In a recent unpublished working paper I performed a “meta-analysis” of these studies to determine the …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreams-reflect-waking-life/feed/ 0 Dreaming, Art, and Transformation https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-art-transformation/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-art-transformation/#respond Wed, 23 May 2018 20:57:45 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3601 An experimental workshop offers a glimpse of the potential power of a dreaming collective. The full impact of the Dream Mapping Project’s workshop in New York City won’t be known for a while, as each artist who participated now goes forth to reflect, imagine, and create new works.  But it was clear that everyone felt …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-art-transformation/feed/ 0 Art, Immigration, and Dreaming: An Experimental Workshop https://bulkeley.org/art-immigration-dreaming-experimental-workshop/ https://bulkeley.org/art-immigration-dreaming-experimental-workshop/#respond Fri, 04 May 2018 23:06:31 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3587 An international group of artists join together to explore their dreams. Next weekend (May 11-13), six professional artists and I will gather in New York City for an experimental workshop on the interplay of dreaming, artistic creativity, and the realities of life as an immigrant.  The participants are an incredibly talented group, and I’m very …

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