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The Ethical Challenges of Dream Video Technologies

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 22:52:23 +0000

New technologies are making it possible to use brain data to create video reconstructions of people’s dreams while they sleep. Is this thrilling, terrifying, or both? Here’s how it works. Researchers are learning how to observe an individual’s brain while viewing a specific image (let’s say a cat) and how to identify neural patterns correlated …

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The Science of Dreaming: 9 Key Points

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 01:40:25 +0000

The most important findings of scientific dream research can be summarized in nine key points. Many important questions about dreaming remain unanswered, but these nine findings have solid empirical evidence to support them. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a trigger for dreaming, but is not identical with dreaming. All mammals have sleep cycles in …

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Dream Recall: The Highs and the Lows

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:02:24 +0000

Why is it so hard to remember dreams? Scientific evidence dating back to the 1950’s has shown the brain is active in various ways throughout the sleep cycle. Yet when we wake up we often can’t remember more than a few fleeting images that disappear from our minds almost immediately. Why can’t we recall more …

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The Wondering Brain: Dreams, Religion, and Cognitive Neuroscience

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:56:52 +0000

Here is a pdf of an chapter I wrote for a book published in 2011, Changing Minds: Religion and Cognition Through the Ages (edited by I. Czachesz and T. Biro) (Peeters), pp. 75-85: Changing Minds book chapter

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Obama’s Brain Activity Map: Good News for the Psychology of Religion

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:17:29 +0000

On July 17, 1990 President George H.W. Bush initiated the “Decade of the Brain” by making an official proclamation that began with these words: “The human brain, a 3-pound mass of interwoven nerve cells that controls our activity, is one of the most magnificent—and mysterious—wonders of creation. The seat of human intelligence, interpreter of senses, …

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Sleep, Dreaming, and Human Health

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:49:34 +0000

Dominican University’s Albertus Magnus Society will present a lecture titled “Sleep, Dreaming, and Human Health” by Dr. Kelly Bulkeley, visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, on Thursday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m. The lecture will be held in Priory Campus Room 263, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest. The event is …

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