dream recall Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/dream-recall/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:08:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png dream recall Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/dream-recall/ 32 32 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 Common Themes in Dreams about the Covid-19 Pandemic https://bulkeley.org/common-themes-in-dreams-about-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://bulkeley.org/common-themes-in-dreams-about-the-covid-19-pandemic/#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:52:57 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3958 Nightmarish themes are plaguing people’s dreams during the Covid-19 crisis. The first wave of dreaming related to the coronavirus pandemic reveals how people are reacting to vivid fears and anxieties coming from all directions. Fears for oneself, for one’s family and friends, for the whole world—all threaten to consume people in their dreams as in their …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/common-themes-in-dreams-about-the-covid-19-pandemic/feed/ 0 More Dream Recall During the Covid-19 Pandemic https://bulkeley.org/more-dreaming-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://bulkeley.org/more-dreaming-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:45:17 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3953 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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/more-dreaming-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/feed/ 0 The Science of Dreaming: 9 Key Points https://bulkeley.org/science-dreaming-9-key-points/ https://bulkeley.org/science-dreaming-9-key-points/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2017 01:40:25 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3513 The most important findings of scientific dream research can be summarized in nine key points.  Many important questions about dreaming remain unanswered, but these nine findings have solid empirical evidence to support them.  Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a trigger for dreaming, but is not identical with dreaming. All mammals have sleep cycles in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/science-dreaming-9-key-points/feed/ 0 How the Enlightenment Went Astray on Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/how-the-enlightenment-went-astray-on-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/how-the-enlightenment-went-astray-on-dreaming/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:13:02 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3431  Enlightenment philosophers helped to spark the scientific revolution, but they were not always accurate or justified in their assumptions about dreaming. The English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) played a vital role in promoting the ideals of the Enlightenment throughout Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  These ideals included a trust in human reason, a corresponding …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/how-the-enlightenment-went-astray-on-dreaming/feed/ 0 Keeping a Dream Journal https://bulkeley.org/keeping-dream-journal/ https://bulkeley.org/keeping-dream-journal/#respond Sat, 27 May 2017 21:46:18 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3387 For anyone interested in learning more about dreaming, I have a simple piece of advice: keep a dream journal.  Record your dreams on a regular basis, track their themes and patterns over time, and you will discover through your own experience many of the key psychological principles that shape the general process of dreaming.   …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/keeping-dream-journal/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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/feed/ 1 Dream Recall: The Highs and the Lows https://bulkeley.org/dream-recall-highs-lows/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-recall-highs-lows/#respond Wed, 22 May 2013 20:02:24 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2710 Why is it so hard to remember dreams?  Scientific evidence dating back to the 1950’s has shown the brain is active in various ways throughout the sleep cycle.  Yet when we wake up we often can’t remember more than a few fleeting images that disappear from our minds almost immediately.  Why can’t we recall more …

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