dream research Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/dream-research/ 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 dream research Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/dream-research/ 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 SDDb Upgrade https://bulkeley.org/sddb-upgrade/ https://bulkeley.org/sddb-upgrade/#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:50:44 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4634 At long last, after many twists and turns, a new and improved version of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb) has been released, just in time for spring! Many thanks to the Elsewhere.to team–Gez Quinn, Kat Juncker, Dan Kennedy, and Victoria Philibert–for their help in the upgrade process.  The SDDb is a growing archive of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/sddb-upgrade/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 Building the Dream Library https://bulkeley.org/building-the-dream-library/ https://bulkeley.org/building-the-dream-library/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:54:00 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4597 Construction is going well so far on the Dream Library, a stand-alone structure on a rural, forested property near Portland, Oregon. As many friends and colleagues know, the project has taken a long time to reach this stage, but at last it’s beginning to take actual shape. The building will provide a long-term archive for …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/building-the-dream-library/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 Your Dream Journal: A Gift to Future Researchers https://bulkeley.org/your-dream-journal-a-gift-to-future-researchers/ https://bulkeley.org/your-dream-journal-a-gift-to-future-researchers/#respond Sat, 10 Nov 2018 01:39:08 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3734 Simple steps you can take to help the future study of dreams. Sooner or later, people who keep a dream journal realize they are creating a document of more than just personal interest.  They realize their journal is an amazing window into the lived experiences of a unique individual, offering potential insights for psychology, history, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/your-dream-journal-a-gift-to-future-researchers/feed/ 0 What Kinds of Technology Do People Dream About Most Frequently? https://bulkeley.org/what-kinds-of-technology-do-people-dream-about-most-frequently/ https://bulkeley.org/what-kinds-of-technology-do-people-dream-about-most-frequently/#respond Tue, 02 Feb 2016 21:15:07 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3025 The past one hundred years of human history have been dramatically transformed by the invention of several new technologies, each of which has impacted people’s lives in profound and complicated ways. In light of empirical research showing strong continuities between waking and dreaming, we can hypothesize that modern technologies have also made a tangible impact …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/what-kinds-of-technology-do-people-dream-about-most-frequently/feed/ 0 Prophetic Rodents: Neuroscientists Find Hints That Rats Dream of the Future https://bulkeley.org/prophetic-rodents-neuroscientists-find-hints-that-rats-dream-of-the-future/ https://bulkeley.org/prophetic-rodents-neuroscientists-find-hints-that-rats-dream-of-the-future/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:38:07 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3021 New findings from brain researchers at University College London in the U.K. suggest that sleeping rats have the capacity to imagine a place they have never been in waking. This intriguing study does more than support the idea that many animals do indeed dream, in modes appropriate to the neural capacities and environmental experiences of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/prophetic-rodents-neuroscientists-find-hints-that-rats-dream-of-the-future/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 Thanks to Larry Lessig, Kurt Bollacker, and Jaron Lanier https://bulkeley.org/thanks-to-larry-lessig-kurt-bollacker-and-jaron-lanier/ https://bulkeley.org/thanks-to-larry-lessig-kurt-bollacker-and-jaron-lanier/#comments Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:39:33 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2895 In developing the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a digital archive and search engine for dream research, I have been acutely aware that I possess no formal training in computer science or internet technology.  My doctoral degree is in religion and psychological studies, and I learned many things in the course of my graduate education, …

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