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Building the Dream Library

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:54:00 +0000

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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Attitudes Towards Dreaming: New Research

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:50:06 +0000

A new study explores the demographic variables that correlate with positive vs. negative attitudes towards dreams. In the latest issue of the International Journal of Dream Research, Michael Schredl and I published the results of a new study on people’s attitudes towards dreaming. Several studies have been done previously looking at differences in people who …

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Answering the Dream Questions of a High School Student

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:56:04 +0000

Like many dream researchers I periodically receive emails from high school students asking for help with a class essay or project. It’s fun to think of the best, clearest, most useful ways of responding to these requests. I’d like to believe that the work I and all my colleagues in dream research are doing can …

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How Not to Raise a Witch

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:44:59 +0000

Many years ago a student told me a story about her childhood dreams that still haunts me. It’s not a happy story—in fact I find it incredibly sad—but it’s kept me thinking about what we know, and don’t know, about the potentials of dreaming. Wanda (a pseudonym) was a student in a religious studies …

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Children’s Dreams Interview with Anne Hill

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:26:37 +0000

A couple of weeks ago Anne Hill, host of Dream Talk Radio, invited me to talk about the book I recently co-authored with my mother, Children’s Dreams: Understanding the Most Memorable Dreams and Nightmares of Childhood (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). Here’s a Youtube link to our discussion, which I thought was really fun. Below I’ve posted …

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Dream Education = Religious Studies Education

Kelly Bulkeley — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:45:16 +0000

This is an excerpt from a panel on dream education at the recent conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. My co-panelists were Phil King and Bernard Welt, with whom I wrote Dreaming in the Classroom: Practices, Methods, and Resources in Dream Education. Any class on dreams that occurs within a …

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What I Learned at the 2012 IASD Conference

Kelly Bulkeley — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:09:27 +0000

Here are excerpts from notes I took during the recent conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, held in Berkeley, California, June 22-26. In parentheses I’ve put the names of the people who were presenting or commenting at the time. Jung’s focus on the number 4 is “dangerous” and promises a …

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A New Book for Dream Teachers

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:56:16 +0000

If you’re a teacher with students who might be interested in learning about the subject of dreams, we’ve written a book specifically for you. Phil King, Bernard Welt, and I are pleased to announce the May 2011 publication of Dreaming in the Classroom: Practices, Methods, and Resources in Dream Education, by the State University of …

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Jung’s Seminar on Children’s Dreams

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:08:26 +0000

Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 by C.G. Jung, edited by Lorenz Jung and Maria Meyer-Grass, translated by Ernst Falzeder with the collaboration of Tony Woolfson (Princeton University Press, 2008). This new English translation of C.G. Jung’s seminar on the earliest remembered dreams of childhood marks a dramatic advance in the study …

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