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More Dream Recall During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:45:17 +0000

A new survey shows a rise in dream recall, especially among younger people. In the past month, about 30% of the American adult population has experienced an increased frequency of dream recall. Twice as many younger people (ages 18-34) as older people (55+) are remembering more dreams than usual. Those are among the initial findings from …

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Dreams and Politics 2020: Preparing for New Research

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:29:26 +0000

To prepare for a new study of dreams during the 2020 U.S. Presidential election campaign, I am doing a brief review of my previous work in this area, to remind myself of what I have learned so far and what seems most important to investigate next. I have been studying dreams and politics since 1992, …

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Attitudes Towards Dreaming: New Research

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:50:06 +0000

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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What Do People Think About Dreams? Preview of a New Survey

Kelly Bulkeley — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 22:12:39 +0000

A new survey reveals the wide range of attitudes that contemporary Americans hold towards dreaming. It might seem that in dreams you enter a purely subjective realm, a world of total solipsism in which nothing exists but the individual self. Yet the more we learn about dreaming, the more we realize how deeply it is …

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Lucid Dreaming and the Future of Sports Training

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 11 May 2015 16:29:35 +0000

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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Dream Recall: The Highs and the Lows

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:02:24 +0000

Why is it so hard to remember dreams? Scientific evidence dating back to the 1950’s has shown the brain is active in various ways throughout the sleep cycle. Yet when we wake up we often can’t remember more than a few fleeting images that disappear from our minds almost immediately. Why can’t we recall more …

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What I Learned at the 2012 IASD Conference

Kelly Bulkeley — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:09:27 +0000

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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New Issue of the Journal DREAMING

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:54:18 +0000

The latest issue of Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams (volume 20, number 4; December 2010) came out recently with several excellent articles. G. Halliday of Mohican Juvenile Correctional Facility in Perrysville, Ohio, reconsiders the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel’s dream theory in “Reflections on the Meanings of Dreams Prompted by Reading Stekel.” Don …

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