fantasy fiction Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/fantasy-fiction/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 25 Feb 2024 20:24:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png fantasy fiction Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/fantasy-fiction/ 32 32 Dystopian Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/dystopian-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/dystopian-dreaming/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:44:01 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2212 While sitting in the audience and taking notes during the recent IASD conference in Berkeley, I found myself marking several instances where something the presenter said triggered my dystopian imagination.  I confess to being a long-time fan of science fiction and fantasy stories about frightening future worlds controlled by alien invaders, zombie hordes, inhuman technologies, totalitarian …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dystopian-dreaming/feed/ 2 The Art and Science of Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/art/ https://bulkeley.org/art/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:05:48 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1934 Why do we have dreams?  Where do they come from?  What, if anything, do they mean?  These mysterious questions have puzzled humankind since the earliest days of history.  The best answers, I suggest, come from integrating the insights of art and science.  Dreaming is rooted in the physical workings of our brains, and it expresses …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/art/feed/ 0 A Lucid Dreaming Cautionary Tale: Graham Joyce’s “Dreamside” https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-cautionary-tale/ https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-cautionary-tale/#respond Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:22:13 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1740 Later this month (3-23) I’m joining British novelist Graham Joyce at the Rubin Museum in New York City to discuss “Are Dreams Pure Fantasy?” as part of the museum’s “Brainwave” lecture series on dreams.  I’ve just read Joyce’s first novel, Dreamside, and it’s a hauntingly beautiful tale, both frightening and inspiring.  It raises vital questions about the …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-cautionary-tale/feed/ 0 Science Fiction and Fantasy Dreams https://bulkeley.org/science-fiction-fantasy-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/science-fiction-fantasy-dreams/#respond Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:37:22 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1736 What are the best science fiction and fantasy stories featuring dreams?  I’m writing an entry on this question for a new encyclopedia, and I’d appreciate any suggestions of authors and titles to include.  I’ll surely say something about Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip K. Dick, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/science-fiction-fantasy-dreams/feed/ 0 The Nightmares of H.P. Lovecraft https://bulkeley.org/nightmares-h-p-lovecraft/ https://bulkeley.org/nightmares-h-p-lovecraft/#respond Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:03:01 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1573 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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