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Why the Elsewhere Dream Journaling App Is the Best

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:59:33 +0000

As both a dreamer and a researcher, I find myself completely enchanted by the Elsewhere.to dream journaling app. Amazed. Smitten. Blown away. Impressed beyond all reckoning. And very excited about the future for dreamers all around the world. For the longest time, I wondered what it would take to create a dreamer’s playground: a private, …

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The Ethical Challenges of Dream Video Technologies

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 22:52:23 +0000

New technologies are making it possible to use brain data to create video reconstructions of people’s dreams while they sleep. Is this thrilling, terrifying, or both? Here’s how it works. Researchers are learning how to observe an individual’s brain while viewing a specific image (let’s say a cat) and how to identify neural patterns correlated …

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What Are the Ethics of Dreaming?

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 31 May 2021 21:56:35 +0000

When people think about ethics, they usually focus on the evaluation of good or bad behaviors in the waking state. But what about the ethical status of the one-third of our lives that we spend in sleep? Do we have any ethical duties or obligations relating to sleep? Do dreamers have any basic rights or …

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The Best New Dream App

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:50:42 +0000

Today is the launch of the Kickstarter campaign to fund the SHADOW mobile application for tracking dreams and creating a new and bigger community of dreamers than ever before possible. There’s a lot of potential here, especially for people who are already familiar with dream research and have good ideas about how such a project …

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Proud to Be a Primate

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:28:27 +0000

“Our goodness is as deep as our darkness”—that was Kimberley Patton’s gloss on the findings of Franz de Waal, a primatologist who spoke on Saturday at the American Academy of Religion conference in Atlanta. De Waal’s new book, Age of Empathy (2010), shows that cooperation, reciprocity, and conflict-resolution are just as natural in primates as are aggression …

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