Katja Valli Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/katja-valli/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 25 Feb 2024 20:26:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png Katja Valli Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/katja-valli/ 32 32 A Festival of Dreams https://bulkeley.org/a-festival-of-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/a-festival-of-dreams/#respond Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:53:46 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3655 Several hundred people from all over the world gathered in Scottsdale, Arizona this week to discuss the latest findings and methods in dream research.  The 35th annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams  featured five days of panels, workshops, and artistic events.  A lively mix of academic symposium, spiritual retreat, and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/a-festival-of-dreams/feed/ 0 Prophetic Rodents: Neuroscientists Find Hints That Rats Dream of the Future https://bulkeley.org/prophetic-rodents-neuroscientists-find-hints-that-rats-dream-of-the-future/ https://bulkeley.org/prophetic-rodents-neuroscientists-find-hints-that-rats-dream-of-the-future/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:38:07 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3021 New findings from brain researchers at University College London in the U.K. suggest that sleeping rats have the capacity to imagine a place they have never been in waking. This intriguing study does more than support the idea that many animals do indeed dream, in modes appropriate to the neural capacities and environmental experiences of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/prophetic-rodents-neuroscientists-find-hints-that-rats-dream-of-the-future/feed/ 0 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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/trouble-night-shift-bad-dreams/feed/ 0 How Not to Raise a Witch https://bulkeley.org/raise-witch/ https://bulkeley.org/raise-witch/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:44:59 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2667 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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/raise-witch/feed/ 4 What I Learned at the 2012 IASD Conference https://bulkeley.org/learned-2012-iasd-conference/ https://bulkeley.org/learned-2012-iasd-conference/#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:09:27 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2187 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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