philosophy Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/philosophy/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png philosophy Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/philosophy/ 32 32 Dreaming as Play and as Mind-Wandering https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:59:32 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4590 The neuroscience of dreams has shifted in recent years toward the idea that dreaming can be conceived as a kind of mind-wandering in sleep. According to current evidence, mind-wandering (also known as day-dreaming, or drifting thought) is a product of the “default mode network,” a system of neural regions that remains active in the absence …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/feed/ 0 How the Enlightenment Went Astray on Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/how-the-enlightenment-went-astray-on-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/how-the-enlightenment-went-astray-on-dreaming/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:13:02 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3431  Enlightenment philosophers helped to spark the scientific revolution, but they were not always accurate or justified in their assumptions about dreaming. The English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) played a vital role in promoting the ideals of the Enlightenment throughout Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  These ideals included a trust in human reason, a corresponding …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/how-the-enlightenment-went-astray-on-dreaming/feed/ 0 Nietzsche’s Prophetic Childhood Dreams of Death https://bulkeley.org/nietzsches-prophetic-childhood/ https://bulkeley.org/nietzsches-prophetic-childhood/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:17:59 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2015 In Ronald Hayman’s 1980 biography Nietzsche: A Critical Life, he mentions two dreams that came to Friedrich Nietzsche early in his life. 1. “I heard the church organ playing as at a funeral. When I looked to see what was going on, a grave opened suddenly, and my father arose out of it in a …

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