creativity Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/creativity/ 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 creativity Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/creativity/ 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 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 Should You Talk About Dreams at Work? https://bulkeley.org/should-you-talk-about-dreams-at-work/ https://bulkeley.org/should-you-talk-about-dreams-at-work/#respond Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:41:11 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3703 Yes, but only if you’re very careful. Let’s say you just had a vivid dream about something at work. The dream was really intense, and you can’t get it out of your mind.  Would it be appropriate to tell other people at work about the dream? I’m guessing that most human resources professionals would say …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/should-you-talk-about-dreams-at-work/feed/ 0 Preparing for the 2018 Dream Studies Conference https://bulkeley.org/preparing-2018-dream-studies-conference/ https://bulkeley.org/preparing-2018-dream-studies-conference/#respond Thu, 07 Jun 2018 22:39:54 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3618 The world’s biggest yearly gathering of dream researchers, teachers, artists, and therapists is less than two weeks away. The 35th annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) will be held June 16-20 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.   I attended my first IASD conference in 1988 in Santa Cruz, California, and I …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/preparing-2018-dream-studies-conference/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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/art-immigration-dreaming-experimental-workshop/feed/ 0 Dreaming and Theater: A Dynamic Connection https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-theater-dynamic-connection/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-theater-dynamic-connection/#respond Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:22:36 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=3266 In August of 1991 I joined a group of dream researchers from the U.S. and Western Europe on a journey to Golitsyno, a conference center just outside Moscow in the former Soviet Union, where we planned to meet several Soviet researchers for a gathering organized by Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak.  Just hours after our plane …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-theater-dynamic-connection/feed/ 0 The Technology of Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:10:53 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2906 “For myself I never found need of more than four or five hours’ sleep in the twenty-four. I never dream.” So said the famously hard-working inventor Thomas Edison in 1921 in his Diary and Sundry Observations.  Edison claimed the only truly restful sleep was totally unconscious, and he regarded dreaming as a waste of mental …

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