literature Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/literature/ 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 literature Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/literature/ 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 Shakespeare Dream Quotes https://bulkeley.org/shakespeare-dream-quotes/ https://bulkeley.org/shakespeare-dream-quotes/#respond Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:59:42 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2112 In honor of the April 26, 1564 baptism of William Shakespeare and his death on April 23, 1616, I have gathered a few of the best quotes about dreams from characters in his plays.  Let me know if you’ve got other good ones!   Prospero: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/shakespeare-dream-quotes/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 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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