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New Dream Posts from Psychology Today

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:08:29 +0000

Here are the recent posts I have written for Psychology Today, going back to the middle of last summer. Although each one is written as a stand-alone discussion of a special topic in dreaming, I now realize they also form a series of interrelated texts, like the chapters of a book I didn’t consciously know …

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The Inevitable Spirituality of Dreaming

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 23:08:43 +0000

People make many strange and unexpected discoveries when they begin exploring their dreams. Of these discoveries, perhaps the most surprising is an uncanny encounter with images, themes, and energies that can best be described as spiritual or religious. It’s one thing to realize you have selfish desires or aggressive instincts; it’s another thing entirely to …

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The Study of a 32-Year Long Dream Journal

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:30:09 +0000

The latest series to be uploaded into the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb) is the biggest yet: the “Brianna Journal 1984-2016,” 2,448 dream reports from a woman who kept a journal fairly consistently for 32 years. This series offers an amazing opportunity to observe in unusually close detail the emotional contours of an individual’s life …

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Tracking Robert Bosnak’s Dreams

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:41:57 +0000

The Sleep and Dream Database has just added a new series of dreams to its collection, thanks to the generosity of Robert Bosnak. In his 1996 book Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming he included an appendix with a series of 51 dreams recorded during a seven-week period of travel and personal transition. With his …

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Dreaming of the Dead: Patterns of Word Usage in Visitation Dreams

Kelly Bulkeley — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:29:59 +0000

Here’s a good example of how to use the word search function of the Sleep and Dream Database. It focuses on “visitation dreams,” i.e., dreams in which people who are dead appear as if alive. These vivid and highly memorable dreams have been reported in cultures all over the world, in many periods of history. …

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The Distinguishing Features of Big Dreams

Kelly Bulkeley — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:58:17 +0000

If someone presented you with two sets of dreams, one of most recent dreams and one of highly memorable dreams, you could predict with a high degree of confidence which type of dream was in which set, based only on word usage frequencies. The set with more references to flying, air, family, animals, fantastic beings, …

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Work Dreams, Lucid Dreams, Visitation Dreams: New Data from the Demographic Survey 2012

Kelly Bulkeley — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:09:42 +0000

Now available in the Sleep and Dream Database are hundreds of new dream reports gathered as part of a demographic survey of 2252 American adults, conducted via online questionnaires administered by Harris Interactive. I designed the survey to focus on three types of dreams that people often report with special frequency and/or intensity: Work dreams, …

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The Tactful Dream Interpreter

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:24:29 +0000

“Once a Caliph saw his teeth falling out in a dream. He called a dream interpreter and asked him about the meaning of his dream. The interpreter replied: ‘The entire family of my master will perish.’ The Caliph became upset, and called for another interpreter and told him the dream. The second dream interpreter replied: …

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Shakespeare Dream Quotes

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:59:42 +0000

In honor of the April 26, 1564 baptism of William Shakespeare and his death on April 23, 1616, I have gathered a few of the best quotes about dreams from characters in his plays. Let me know if you’ve got other good ones! Prospero: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and …

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Mary Shelley’s Baby Comes Back to Life

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:37:12 +0000

In February of 1815 a baby girl was born two months prematurely to Mary Godwin, seventeen years old at the time, and the poet Percy B. Shelley. Twelve days later Mary went to the child during the night and found she had died in her sleep. On March 19, 1815 Mary recorded the following dream …

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