C.G. Jung Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/c-g-jung/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 25 Feb 2024 20:26:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png C.G. Jung Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/c-g-jung/ 32 32 The Natural Wisdom of Children’s Dreams https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:19:20 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4306 Dreaming is a natural and normal part of children’s lives as they grow and develop. Vivid dreams can appear in children as young as two or three years old. Many preschoolers between four and six years olds have frequent dream recall, and occasionally terrifying nightmares. As children develop cognitively and socially, their dreams become longer, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/jungs-theory-of-dreams/feed/ 0 Dreaming of the Future: The Anticipatory Function of Dreams https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-of-the-future-the-anticipatory-function-of-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-of-the-future-the-anticipatory-function-of-dreams/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2019 23:48:41 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3914 Throughout history, people have believed prophetic dreams can give us glimpses of future events. Is there any reason to believe such dreams are possible? It would seem not. Most instances of a dream predicting a significant event in waking life are probably just coincidences. For example, people periodically dream of car crashes, so at some …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-of-the-future-the-anticipatory-function-of-dreams/feed/ 0 Keeping a Dream Journal https://bulkeley.org/keeping-dream-journal/ https://bulkeley.org/keeping-dream-journal/#respond Sat, 27 May 2017 21:46:18 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3387 For anyone interested in learning more about dreaming, I have a simple piece of advice: keep a dream journal.  Record your dreams on a regular basis, track their themes and patterns over time, and you will discover through your own experience many of the key psychological principles that shape the general process of dreaming.   …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/keeping-dream-journal/feed/ 0 Beyond the Eclipse of Research on Big Dreams https://bulkeley.org/beyond-the-eclipse-of-research-on-big-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/beyond-the-eclipse-of-research-on-big-dreams/#respond Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:40:56 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3109 On Friday, February 19, I will visit with C.G. Jung Society of Atlanta and give a talk on “Big dreams: Religion, science, and Jung’s theory of highly memorable dreams,” followed by a workshop on Saturday titled “Dreaming as Theater of the Psyche.” I wrote the following essay for the Society newsletter as a prelude to the talk and workshop. …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/beyond-the-eclipse-of-research-on-big-dreams/feed/ 0 Prophetic Rodents: Neuroscientists Find Hints That Rats Dream of the Future https://bulkeley.org/prophetic-rodents-neuroscientists-find-hints-that-rats-dream-of-the-future/ https://bulkeley.org/prophetic-rodents-neuroscientists-find-hints-that-rats-dream-of-the-future/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:38:07 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3021 New findings from brain researchers at University College London in the U.K. suggest that sleeping rats have the capacity to imagine a place they have never been in waking. This intriguing study does more than support the idea that many animals do indeed dream, in modes appropriate to the neural capacities and environmental experiences of …

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