lucid dreaming Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/lucid-dreaming/ Dream Research & Education Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:43:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png lucid dreaming Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/lucid-dreaming/ 32 32 Reflections on Spiritual Dreaming (1995) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-spiritual-dreaming-1995/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-spiritual-dreaming-1995/#respond Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:43:59 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4624 An academic dissertation is written in compliance with a host of official requirements designed to focus the project and give it the best chance of successful completion. Those requirements definitely influenced how my dissertation and first book, The Wilderness of Dreams (1994), came to be what it is. As I sat down to write my …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-spiritual-dreaming-1995/feed/ 0 The Jumbotron Critique of Lucid Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-jumbotron-critique-of-lucid-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-jumbotron-critique-of-lucid-dreaming/#respond Fri, 12 Nov 2021 22:42:16 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4394 As a dream researcher, I try to promote public interest in dreaming and its many exciting possibilities. And yet also as a dream researcher, I try to highlight potential problems and misleading claims that can do more public harm than good. This creates a dilemma with the topic of lucid dreaming, which is increasingly popular …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-jumbotron-critique-of-lucid-dreaming/feed/ 0 Healthier Sleep: A Path to Lucid Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/healthier-sleep-a-path-to-lucid-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/healthier-sleep-a-path-to-lucid-dreaming/#respond Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:44:00 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3728 More awareness of sleep leads to more awareness in sleep. Why is it so hard to motivate people to sleep better?  Sleep is vital to human health, yet many of us get much less of it than we truly need. Sleep deprivation causes devastating personal and social damage, including more frequent accidents, injuries, illnesses, and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/healthier-sleep-a-path-to-lucid-dreaming/feed/ 0 Four Reasons Why You Should Take a Nap https://bulkeley.org/four-reasons-take-nap/ https://bulkeley.org/four-reasons-take-nap/#respond Tue, 08 May 2018 23:10:22 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3592 Naps are not an indulgence or a sign of laziness, but a simple way of rejuvenating your mental and physical well-being.  Here are four reasons why you should find a time and place for a brief daytime snooze. 1. You probably need it. Many people today are sleep deprived at moderate to severe levels.  Long …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/science-dreaming-9-key-points/feed/ 0 “Falling Water” and the Vasty Deep https://bulkeley.org/falling-water-and-the-vasty-deep/ https://bulkeley.org/falling-water-and-the-vasty-deep/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:53:10 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3178 The second episode of the excellent new TV series “Falling Water” (USA Network) starts with a creepy voiceover from a character who later reveals the frightening extent of his powers in the dream realm. He quotes from Shakespeare’s play “Henry IV Part I,” when two English lords plot a rebellion against the king: Glendower: I …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/falling-water-and-the-vasty-deep/feed/ 1 Lucid Dreaming and “Pan’s Labyrinth” https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-and-pans-labyrinth/ https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-and-pans-labyrinth/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2016 23:18:02 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3147 This essay is based on a presentation I gave at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry on April 13, 2016, as part of OMSI’s “Reel Science” series in which a lecture precedes the showing of a popular movie. My lecture involved the science of lucid dreaming, and the film was Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-and-pans-labyrinth/feed/ 1 Lucid Dreaming and the Future of Sports Training https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-and-the-future-of-sports-training/ https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-and-the-future-of-sports-training/#respond Mon, 11 May 2015 16:29:35 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2983 A recently published study in the Journal of Sports Sciences adds new evidence to the idea that physical skills in waking life can be improved by practicing those skills in lucid dreaming. Although the study was small and needs to be replicated, the implications of its findings are potentially enormous for a new mind/body approach …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-and-the-future-of-sports-training/feed/ 0 Tolkien’s Dreams, Past and Future https://bulkeley.org/tolkiens-dreams-past-and-future/ https://bulkeley.org/tolkiens-dreams-past-and-future/#respond Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:21:36 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2950 Dreams play a significant role in The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s multi-part fantasy story written in the first half of the 20th century.  The dream elements become muted in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation, but in the novels they serve as an important source of insight for the characters.  According to Curt Hoffman in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/tolkiens-dreams-past-and-future/feed/ 0 Lucid Dreaming: New Horizons for Research https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-new-horizons-for-research/ https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreaming-new-horizons-for-research/#respond Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:29:57 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2928 For most of the 20th century, lucid dreaming received almost no attention from mainstream psychologists.  Most researchers seemed to think it was impossible to be dreaming and self-aware at the same time (the philosopher Norman Malcolm’s 1962 book Dreaming made exactly that argument).  Even if a few people reported having lucid dream experiences, it was …

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