G. William Domhoff Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/g-william-domhoff/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 05 May 2025 22:10:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png G. William Domhoff Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/g-william-domhoff/ 32 32 Reflections on An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming (1997) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 22:10:11 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4657 Early in my career, I had attitude about writing “secondary” texts. I didn’t want to write about what other people thought, I wanted to write about my own ideas. That’s why when the opportunity arose to write a book intended as an introductory textbook for college students, I hesitated. The offer came by way of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/feed/ 0 Dreaming as Play and as Mind-Wandering https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:59:32 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4590 The neuroscience of dreams has shifted in recent years toward the idea that dreaming can be conceived as a kind of mind-wandering in sleep. According to current evidence, mind-wandering (also known as day-dreaming, or drifting thought) is a product of the “default mode network,” a system of neural regions that remains active in the absence …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreams-and-politics-2020-preparing-for-new-research/feed/ 0 The Dreams of a Sight-Impaired Person https://bulkeley.org/the-dreams-of-a-sight-impaired-person/ https://bulkeley.org/the-dreams-of-a-sight-impaired-person/#respond Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:03:36 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3674 A study from 2015 about the distinctive patterns in the dreams of “Jasmine,” a young sight-impaired musician.  First presented at the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Introduction This presentation demonstrates the use of a digital word search method to study 800 dreams recorded in a …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-dreams-of-a-sight-impaired-person/feed/ 0 Dream Books as Holiday Gifts https://bulkeley.org/dream-books-holiday-gifts/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-books-holiday-gifts/#respond Wed, 06 Dec 2017 01:11:50 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3497 Books about dreams are excellent holiday presents—easy to give and enjoyable to receive.  They are widely available for purchase, fairly inexpensive, simple to wrap and ship, and sure to bring surprise and delight (and perhaps life-changing illumination) to their recipients.  If you have a long list of people for whom you’re trying to buy gifts …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-books-holiday-gifts/feed/ 0 The Dreams of a Religious Cult Member https://bulkeley.org/dreams-religious-cult-member/ https://bulkeley.org/dreams-religious-cult-member/#respond Sun, 23 Apr 2017 23:22:26 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=3311 A new study of a long-term dream journal from a woman who belonged for many years to a physically and spiritually abusive religious cult. Earlier this year a dream research colleague, G. William Domhoff, told me about a new series of dreams available from a person willing to participate in a new experiment with “blind …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreams-religious-cult-member/feed/ 0 Beyond the Eclipse of Research on Big Dreams https://bulkeley.org/beyond-the-eclipse-of-research-on-big-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/beyond-the-eclipse-of-research-on-big-dreams/#respond Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:40:56 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3109 On Friday, February 19, I will visit with C.G. Jung Society of Atlanta and give a talk on “Big dreams: Religion, science, and Jung’s theory of highly memorable dreams,” followed by a workshop on Saturday titled “Dreaming as Theater of the Psyche.” I wrote the following essay for the Society newsletter as a prelude to the talk and workshop. …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/beyond-the-eclipse-of-research-on-big-dreams/feed/ 0 Big Data and the Study of Religion: Can a Google Search Lead to God? https://bulkeley.org/big-data-and-the-study-of-religion-can-a-google-search-lead-to-god/ https://bulkeley.org/big-data-and-the-study-of-religion-can-a-google-search-lead-to-god/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:06:05 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3011 A recent essay in the Sunday Review Section of the New York Times made several observations about religion in contemporary America by analyzing a huge collection of Google search data. In “Googling for God,” economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz examined the search results for various religious terms and questions in relation to where the people lived and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/big-data-and-the-study-of-religion-can-a-google-search-lead-to-god/feed/ 0 The Social Networks of Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/social-networks-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/social-networks-dreaming/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:56:07 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2840 Digital technologies have given us new ways to socialize and to track, measure, and reflect upon our socializing.  Humans have always been social animals, as Aristotle said long ago, but now we’re social animals with smart phones, email, Facebook, Tubmlr, and Twitter.  It’s not just that these tools and platforms dramatically expand the range of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/social-networks-dreaming/feed/ 1 Trouble on the Night Shift: Bad Dreams About Work https://bulkeley.org/trouble-night-shift-bad-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/trouble-night-shift-bad-dreams/#respond Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:18:29 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2830 “Sleep, the gentlest of the gods, the spirit’s peace, whom care flies from: who soothes the body wearied with toil, and readies it for fresh labors.”   That’s how the Roman poet Ovid described sleep in his first century CE masterpiece the Metamorphoses.   Many people today desperately seek the restorative blessings of sleep just …

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