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2025 Dream Animation Film Festival 2

Kelly Bulkeley — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:30:41 +0000

The prize for this year’s Best Animation Style went to Daniele Grosso for “The Bird Insect Tornado.” Here is Daniele’s description of the dream that inspired the film: “I am at a picnic on the bank of a river with some friends. I notice a flock of pinkish colored bird insects flying around a tree. …

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Dreams and Shakespeare: Othello

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 01:24:58 +0000

Shakespeare’s most cunning villain turns sleep and dreaming against his enemies. At the center of Shakespeare’s dark tragedy is the cruel dynamic between Othello, a magnificent warrior and heroic leader, and Iago, his resentful subordinate. (In the current production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chris Butler performs in the title role, and Iago is played …

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Cartoon Dreams: Psychological Insights in The Justice League and SpongeBob SquarePants

Kelly Bulkeley — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 01:29:46 +0000

Childhood is a time of frequent and intense dreaming for many people. Often these nocturnal experiences from early life have a dark hue—children are especially prone to nightmares, sleep paralysis, and night terrors. But children are also more likely than adults to experience magical dreams of flying and lucid dreams of self-awareness. The whole wild …

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The Dream Logic of Twin Peaks

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:09:59 +0000

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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The Nightmares of H.P. Lovecraft

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:03:01 +0000

The American fantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) wrote a series of interconnected short stories and novellas in which dreaming features as a frightening portal between the normal world of sanity and the unnamable horrors that lurk in every shadow. Dreams and nightmares are central themes in “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,” “Beyond the Wall of Sleep,” and “Hypnos,” among other Lovecraft …

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Joe Lieberman’s Farewell Dream

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:42:07 +0000

“He [Lieberman] was feeling loose now, so much so that he began telling aides about a dream he’d had the other night in which long-dead Democratic Connecticut Governor John Dempsey had walked across a stage and waved at him. Lieberman was puzzled by the dream. It was hard not to wonder what his unconscious was …

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