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More Dream Recall During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:45:17 +0000

A new survey shows a rise in dream recall, especially among younger people. In the past month, about 30% of the American adult population has experienced an increased frequency of dream recall. Twice as many younger people (ages 18-34) as older people (55+) are remembering more dreams than usual. Those are among the initial findings from …

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Dreaming in Adolescence: A “Blind” Word Search of a Teenage Girl’s Dream Series

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:25:14 +0000

Here’s a pdf file of the word search study I did with “Bea,” published in Dreaming (2012), Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-252: Dreaming in Adolescence

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New Dissertations in the Study of Dreams

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:48:32 +0000

This year I’ve had the honor of serving as an advisor for three doctoral dissertations in the study of dreams. Dianne Jackie Frost at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Cynthia S. Sauln at Sofia University, and Mary Walsh at San Francisco Theological Seminary have done highly innovative work in exploring some of the most important and potentially …

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How Not to Raise a Witch

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:44:59 +0000

Many years ago a student told me a story about her childhood dreams that still haunts me. It’s not a happy story—in fact I find it incredibly sad—but it’s kept me thinking about what we know, and don’t know, about the potentials of dreaming. Wanda (a pseudonym) was a student in a religious studies …

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New Venue for Talking About Sleep and Dream Research

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:58:55 +0000

I’ve just started writing a blog on sleep and dreams for the Huffington Post—let me know what you think! Initially I’ll focus on children’s dreams, using material from the book I co-wrote with my mother, then eventually I’ll broaden the scope and write about new developments in dream research and cultural expressions of dreaming. …

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Children’s Dreams Interview with Anne Hill

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:26:37 +0000

A couple of weeks ago Anne Hill, host of Dream Talk Radio, invited me to talk about the book I recently co-authored with my mother, Children’s Dreams: Understanding the Most Memorable Dreams and Nightmares of Childhood (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). Here’s a Youtube link to our discussion, which I thought was really fun. Below I’ve posted …

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Dreaming in Adolescence

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:44:32 +0000

In the current issue of the IASD journal Dreaming (Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-252) I have an article with results of a blind word search analysis of a teenage girl’s dream series. (Many thanks to the anonymous dreamer, “Bea,” and to Bill Domhoff for mediating our interactions.) The article is my latest effort at developing …

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What I Learned at the 2012 IASD Conference

Kelly Bulkeley — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:09:27 +0000

Here are excerpts from notes I took during the recent conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, held in Berkeley, California, June 22-26. In parentheses I’ve put the names of the people who were presenting or commenting at the time. Jung’s focus on the number 4 is “dangerous” and promises a …

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Animals in Dreams

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:31:28 +0000

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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Children’s Dreams: A Word Search Analysis (part 5)

Kelly Bulkeley — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:03:45 +0000

From numbers to narrative: The SDDb makes it easier than ever to combine quantitative and qualitative modes of dream research. It’s possible to look only at numbers when studying dreams, just as it’s possible to look only at their narrative qualities. But now that digital archives provide the ability to do both in a variety …

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