play Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/play/ 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 play Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/play/ 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 Bizarreness, Nightmares, and Play https://bulkeley.org/bizarreness-nightmares-and-play/ https://bulkeley.org/bizarreness-nightmares-and-play/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:15:38 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4593 The bizarre contents of dreaming can easily seem like the products of mental deficiency. “Children of an idle brain” is what Mercutio calls them in Romeo & Juliet (I.iv.102). Many scientists today essentially agree with Mercutio that the weird absurdities of dreams are evidence of diminished cognitive functioning during sleep. But what if the “bizarreness” …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/bizarreness-nightmares-and-play/feed/ 0 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 New Dream Posts from Psychology Today https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/ https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:08:29 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4538 Here are the recent posts I have written for Psychology Today, going back to the middle of last summer. Although each one is written as a stand-alone discussion of a special topic in dreaming, I now realize they also form a series of interrelated texts, like the chapters of a book I didn’t consciously know …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/feed/ 0 The Natural Wisdom of Children’s Dreams https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:19:20 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4306 Dreaming is a natural and normal part of children’s lives as they grow and develop. Vivid dreams can appear in children as young as two or three years old. Many preschoolers between four and six years olds have frequent dream recall, and occasionally terrifying nightmares. As children develop cognitively and socially, their dreams become longer, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/feed/ 0 Christmas Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/christmas-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/christmas-dreaming/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:27:47 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4238 Dreams during the holidays bring happy memories, and recurrent anxieties. The holiday season brings many anticipated pleasures, and many reasons for worry. Our dreams about Christmas express both happiness and anxiety, eagerly looking forward to the holiday but also expressing recurrent worries about every possible thing that could go wrong. The Sleep and Dream Database …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/christmas-dreaming/feed/ 0 A Panel Discussion of Dreams and OSF’s “Alice in Wonderland” https://bulkeley.org/a-panel-discussion-of-dreams-and-osfs-alice-in-wonderland/ https://bulkeley.org/a-panel-discussion-of-dreams-and-osfs-alice-in-wonderland/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:22:11 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3852 Before going to bed each night after a long day of rehearsals, the director of “Alice in Wonderland” wrote a letter, sealed it, and put it under her pillow. The letter was addressed to her theatrical hero, Eva Le Gallienne (1899-1991), a revolutionary figure on the American stage whose adaptation of the Alice stories was …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/a-panel-discussion-of-dreams-and-osfs-alice-in-wonderland/feed/ 0 New Dream Research in 2019 https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-research-in-2019/ https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-research-in-2019/#respond Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:51:16 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3751 Dreaming, play, theater, science, religion, social and political crisis. Jung, Freud, Shakespeare, a troupe of immigrant artists, Alice in Wonderland, Lucrecia de Leon, the US President. These are the topics and the people I will be discussing most frequently in a series of presentations lining up for 2019.  Each presentation will speak directly to the interests of a …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-research-in-2019/feed/ 0 Dreaming Is Play: A New Theory of Dream Psychology https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-is-play-a-new-theory-of-dream-psychology/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-is-play-a-new-theory-of-dream-psychology/#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:58:51 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3198 The scientific study of dreams has fallen on hard times.  In an era dominated by cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychoactive drugs, and computer models of the mind, dreaming seems less relevant to psychology today than at any time since Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. The problem, ironically, is not a lack of empirical …

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