culture Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/culture/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 05 May 2025 21:53:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png culture Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/culture/ 32 32 Reflections on Among All These Dreamers (1996) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-among-all-these-dreamers/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-among-all-these-dreamers/#respond Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:38:26 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4641 The first time I attended an annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams was in Santa Cruz in 1988. For the next several years (London in 1989, Chicago in 1990 (which I hosted), Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991) these conferences gave me an opportunity to learn more about the various ways in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-among-all-these-dreamers/feed/ 0 The Jumbotron Critique of Lucid Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-jumbotron-critique-of-lucid-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-jumbotron-critique-of-lucid-dreaming/#respond Fri, 12 Nov 2021 22:42:16 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4394 As a dream researcher, I try to promote public interest in dreaming and its many exciting possibilities. And yet also as a dream researcher, I try to highlight potential problems and misleading claims that can do more public harm than good. This creates a dilemma with the topic of lucid dreaming, which is increasingly popular …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-jumbotron-critique-of-lucid-dreaming/feed/ 0 Aggression in Dreams https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:54:48 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4309 Hitting, fighting, chasing, shooting, killing—these are not only common themes in the news each day, they are also recurrent features of our dreams at night. Few studies have focused specifically on aggression in dreaming, even though Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, claimed that “the inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/feed/ 0 Nightmares of a Smart Home https://bulkeley.org/nightmares-of-a-smart-home/ https://bulkeley.org/nightmares-of-a-smart-home/#respond Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:39:16 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3888 Dreams from Germans in the 1930’s highlight the danger of new home technologies. I have always been a strong advocate for the creative potentials of dreaming and its capacity to envision future realities. Now, however, I worry that dreams from an earlier era may have predicted a new technology with frightening potentials for abuse in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/nightmares-of-a-smart-home/feed/ 0 Trouble on the Night Shift: Bad Dreams About Work https://bulkeley.org/trouble-night-shift-bad-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/trouble-night-shift-bad-dreams/#respond Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:18:29 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2830 “Sleep, the gentlest of the gods, the spirit’s peace, whom care flies from: who soothes the body wearied with toil, and readies it for fresh labors.”   That’s how the Roman poet Ovid described sleep in his first century CE masterpiece the Metamorphoses.   Many people today desperately seek the restorative blessings of sleep just …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/trouble-night-shift-bad-dreams/feed/ 0 The Dream Logic of Twin Peaks https://bulkeley.org/dream-logic-twin-peaks/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-logic-twin-peaks/#comments Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:09:59 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2762 A cool new book has just been published, with special appeal to David Lynch fans.  Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks, edited by Marisa C. Hayes and Franck Boulegue, was released this month by Intellect Books in the UK.  Other titles in the Fan Phenomena series include Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dr. Who, and Batman.  We’re …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-logic-twin-peaks/feed/ 2 Sexual Dreaming Before Sexual Activity https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/ https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:26:10 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2742 Sexual dreams have long been part of human experience, as we know from historical sources.  For example, the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus, an ancient manual of dream interpretation, devoted several pages to the various types and classes of sexual dreams.   However, we do not know how widespread sexual dreams are, who has them most often, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/feed/ 0 Dreaming in the Digital Age: The Impact of New Database Technologies on Dream Research https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-digital-age-impact-database/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-digital-age-impact-database/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:41:52 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2732 For several years I’ve been inspired and guided by an admittedly idealistic vision of future technology in the study of dreams:   One day, everyone in the world will have an easy and private way to enter their dreams into a collective database we can all access and study.    If that were possible, if …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-digital-age-impact-database/feed/ 0 New Dissertations in the Study of Dreams https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/#respond Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:48:32 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2725 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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/feed/ 0 The Wondering Brain: Dreams, Religion, and Cognitive Neuroscience https://bulkeley.org/wondering-brain-dreams-religion/ https://bulkeley.org/wondering-brain-dreams-religion/#respond Wed, 01 May 2013 16:56:52 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2805 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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