methodology Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/methodology/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 04 May 2025 19:54:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png methodology Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/methodology/ 32 32 Interpreting Dreams with AI-Generated Imagery https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/ https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/#respond Sun, 04 May 2025 19:54:59 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4647 The image-generating power of new AI systems has huge untapped potential for the practice of dream interpretation—and some potential downsides. Even more than AI interpretive texts, the dramatic power of AI interpretive images may open new vistas for exploring the meanings of dreams. The Value of Dream-Sharing The difficulty most of us have in understanding …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/feed/ 0 The Best Technology for Studying Dreams https://bulkeley.org/the-best-technology-for-studying-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/the-best-technology-for-studying-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:04:09 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4300 It’s hard to beat the simple practice of keeping a dream journal. Many exciting new tools are being developed to help us understand the nature and functions of our dreams. For example, researchers are developing technologies for generating a video “read-out” of a person’s dreams based on neural signals from the brain. They are devising …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-best-technology-for-studying-dreams/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 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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/feed/ 0 The Wondering Brain: Dreams, Religion, and Cognitive Neuroscience https://bulkeley.org/wondering-brain-dreams-religion/ https://bulkeley.org/wondering-brain-dreams-religion/#respond Wed, 01 May 2013 16:56:52 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2805 Here is a pdf of an chapter I wrote for a book published in 2011, Changing Minds: Religion and Cognition Through the Ages (edited by I. Czachesz and T. Biro) (Peeters), pp. 75-85: Changing Minds book chapter  

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/wondering-brain-dreams-religion/feed/ 0 What’s In a Lucid Dream? https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreams/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:37:01 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2517 What do people dream about when they have lucid dreams?  What’s going on in the dream when someone has the realization, “I am dreaming”?  Here’s another example of how the word search function of the SDDb can help get a research project started.  The database includes a set of surveys (Demographic Survey 2012) in which …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreams/feed/ 1 Dreaming of the Dead: Patterns of Word Usage in Visitation Dreams https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-dead-patterns-word-usage/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-dead-patterns-word-usage/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:29:59 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2504 Here’s a good example of how to use the word search function of the Sleep and Dream Database.   It focuses on “visitation dreams,” i.e., dreams in which people who are dead appear as if alive.  These vivid and highly memorable dreams have been reported in cultures all over the world, in many periods of history. …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-dead-patterns-word-usage/feed/ 1 A Dream Research Contest https://bulkeley.org/dream-research-contest/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-research-contest/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:36:34 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2416 To help test the initial hypotheses arising from the SDDb baselines, I am offering a dream research contest, open to anyone willing to give it a try.  The first person to send me (at bulkeleyk@gmail.com) the correct answers will win a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com.   The contest challenges you to look at the …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-research-contest/feed/ 1 The Distinguishing Features of Big Dreams https://bulkeley.org/distinguishing-features-big-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/distinguishing-features-big-dreams/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:58:17 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2398 If someone presented you with two sets of dreams, one of most recent dreams and one of highly memorable dreams, you could predict with a high degree of confidence which type of dream was in which set, based only on word usage frequencies. The set with more references to flying, air, family, animals, fantastic beings, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/distinguishing-features-big-dreams/feed/ 1 A Primal Difference (Part 3 of Creating a Baseline for Studying Patterns in Dream Content) https://bulkeley.org/primal-difference/ https://bulkeley.org/primal-difference/#respond Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:57:09 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2378 What makes unusually memorable dreams different from average, ordinary dreams?  Putting it in Jungian terms, how are big dreams different from little dreams?   The SDDb baselines for most recent dreams (MRDs) and memorable dreams (MemDs) give a very precise and empirically based answer to this question.   MRDs tend to use more words relating …

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