Interpretation Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/dream-interpretation/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 04 May 2025 19:54:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png Interpretation Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/dream-interpretation/ 32 32 Interpreting Dreams with AI-Generated Imagery https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/ https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/#respond Sun, 04 May 2025 19:54:59 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4647 The image-generating power of new AI systems has huge untapped potential for the practice of dream interpretation—and some potential downsides. Even more than AI interpretive texts, the dramatic power of AI interpretive images may open new vistas for exploring the meanings of dreams. The Value of Dream-Sharing The difficulty most of us have in understanding …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/feed/ 0 Reflections on The Wilderness of Dreams (1994) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-the-wilderness-of-dreams-1994/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-the-wilderness-of-dreams-1994/#respond Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:11:48 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4617 Writing has always been a relational process for me. Relationships with an imagined audience, with the people who have taught and influenced me, sometimes with co-authors, and always with the energies of inspiration I personify as Muses—without them, I would never care enough to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. With them, I’ve …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-the-wilderness-of-dreams-1994/feed/ 0 Freud, Jung, and AI-generated Dream Interpretation https://bulkeley.org/freud-jung-and-ai-generated-dream-interpretation/ https://bulkeley.org/freud-jung-and-ai-generated-dream-interpretation/#respond Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:58:15 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4548 This is a post I recently wrote about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the practice of dream interpretation.  In coordination with the team at the Elsewhere.to dream journaling app–Dan Kennedy, Gez Quinn, and Sheldon Juncker–we have been experimenting with “Freudian” and “Jungian” modes of interpretation, and the results are very encouraging. Maybe …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/freud-jung-and-ai-generated-dream-interpretation/feed/ 0 New Dream Posts from Psychology Today https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/ https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:08:29 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4538 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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/feed/ 0 How to Begin a Dream-Sharing Process https://bulkeley.org/how-to-begin-a-dream-sharing-process/ https://bulkeley.org/how-to-begin-a-dream-sharing-process/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:13:57 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4303 When someone is about to share a dream with me, either in a group setting or one-on-one, I always ask for two things. First, please tell the dream in the present tense, not the past tense, so the dream feels immediate, like it’s happening right now. And second, please share the dream twice. After you …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/how-to-begin-a-dream-sharing-process/feed/ 0 Dreams and Politics 2020: Preparing for New Research https://bulkeley.org/dreams-and-politics-2020-preparing-for-new-research/ https://bulkeley.org/dreams-and-politics-2020-preparing-for-new-research/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:29:26 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3883 To prepare for a new study of dreams during the 2020 U.S. Presidential election campaign, I am doing a brief review of my previous work in this area, to remind myself of what I have learned so far and what seems most important to investigate next. I have been studying dreams and politics since 1992, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreams-and-politics-2020-preparing-for-new-research/feed/ 0 Digital Dream Analysis: A New Article on Word Search Methods https://bulkeley.org/digital-dream-analysis-a-new-article-on-word-search-methods/ https://bulkeley.org/digital-dream-analysis-a-new-article-on-word-search-methods/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2014 23:23:14 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2943 The latest issue of the journal Consciousness and Cognition has an article of mine titled “Digital dream analysis: A revised method,” that’s the fruition of several years of data-driven work.  It lays out the latest developments in testing and refining the word search template programmed into the Sleep and Dream Database, a digital archive and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/digital-dream-analysis-a-new-article-on-word-search-methods/feed/ 1 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 Penelope and Odysseus: The Perils of Dream Interpretation https://bulkeley.org/penelope-dreamer-perils-interpretation/ https://bulkeley.org/penelope-dreamer-perils-interpretation/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:00:31 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1364   I’d like to illustrate some basic principles of dream interpretation by telling a story. It’s a very old story, one you may have heard before, but I’d like to tell it again because even though it’s “just a story” it highlights the real perils that come when these dream interpretation principles are overlooked. The …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/penelope-dreamer-perils-interpretation/feed/ 2 Dystopian Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/dystopian-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/dystopian-dreaming/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:44:01 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2212 While sitting in the audience and taking notes during the recent IASD conference in Berkeley, I found myself marking several instances where something the presenter said triggered my dystopian imagination.  I confess to being a long-time fan of science fiction and fantasy stories about frightening future worlds controlled by alien invaders, zombie hordes, inhuman technologies, totalitarian …

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