gender Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/gender/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 05 May 2025 21:53:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png gender Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/gender/ 32 32 Reflections on Among All These Dreamers (1996) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-among-all-these-dreamers/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-among-all-these-dreamers/#respond Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:38:26 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4641 The first time I attended an annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams was in Santa Cruz in 1988. For the next several years (London in 1989, Chicago in 1990 (which I hosted), Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991) these conferences gave me an opportunity to learn more about the various ways in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-among-all-these-dreamers/feed/ 0 The Nightmares of Halloween https://bulkeley.org/the-nightmares-of-halloween/ https://bulkeley.org/the-nightmares-of-halloween/#respond Tue, 26 Oct 2021 23:52:58 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4379 It’s more than a metaphor to say that Halloween is a time when our nightmares go on parade. The scary images, decorations, and costumes that take over the month of October have a direct psychological connection to the actual themes and patterns of people’s nightmares. If we look at current research on nightmares—who has them, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-nightmares-of-halloween/feed/ 0 Friendly Dreams https://bulkeley.org/friendly-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/friendly-dreams/#respond Sun, 03 Oct 2021 22:59:54 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4349 Dreams with explicitly sexual and/or violent interactions tend to get the most attention, but dreams actually tend to have surprisingly high proportions of friendly content, too. According to an analysis of the nearly 35,000 dream reports collected in the Sleep and Dream Database, 47% of the women’s dreams have at least one reference to a …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/friendly-dreams/feed/ 0 Aggression in Dreams https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:54:48 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4309 Hitting, fighting, chasing, shooting, killing—these are not only common themes in the news each day, they are also recurrent features of our dreams at night. Few studies have focused specifically on aggression in dreaming, even though Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, claimed that “the inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/feed/ 0 Basic Patterns in Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/basic-patterns-in-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/basic-patterns-in-dreaming/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:08:01 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4078 The basic patterns of dream content are coming into sharper focus, thanks to new technologies of digital analysis. By using these tools to study large and diverse collections of high-quality dream data, and then making those tools and data publicly available, we can illuminate recurrent frequencies of dream content that others can easily review, replicate, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/basic-patterns-in-dreaming/feed/ 0 Attitudes Towards Dreaming: New Research https://bulkeley.org/attitudes-towards-dreaming-new-research/ https://bulkeley.org/attitudes-towards-dreaming-new-research/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:50:06 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3841 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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/attitudes-towards-dreaming-new-research/feed/ 0 Reflecting on my 2018 Dream Journal https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/ https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/#respond Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:18:28 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3785 The value of keeping a dream journal is inherent in the practice itself. Simply recording your dreams on a regular basis will increase your dream recall, deepen your self-knowledge, and help you maintain emotional balance in waking life. You can enjoy these benefits even if you never look back at your journal after recording each …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/feed/ 0 Dreaming in Adolescence: A “Blind” Word Search of a Teenage Girl’s Dream Series https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/#respond Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:25:14 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2748 Here’s a pdf file of the word search study I did with “Bea,” published in Dreaming (2012), Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-252:   Dreaming in Adolescence            

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/feed/ 0 Sexual Dreaming Before Sexual Activity https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/ https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:26:10 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2742 Sexual dreams have long been part of human experience, as we know from historical sources.  For example, the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus, an ancient manual of dream interpretation, devoted several pages to the various types and classes of sexual dreams.   However, we do not know how widespread sexual dreams are, who has them most often, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/feed/ 0 New Dissertations in the Study of Dreams https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/#respond Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:48:32 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2725 This year I’ve had the honor of serving as an advisor for three doctoral dissertations in the study of dreams.  Dianne Jackie Frost at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Cynthia S. Sauln at Sofia University, and Mary Walsh at San Francisco Theological Seminary have done highly innovative work in exploring some of the most important and potentially …

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