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Reflections on Among All These Dreamers (1996)

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:38:26 +0000

The first time I attended an annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams was in Santa Cruz in 1988. For the next several years (London in 1989, Chicago in 1990 (which I hosted), Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991) these conferences gave me an opportunity to learn more about the various ways in …

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Reflections on Spiritual Dreaming (1995)

Kelly Bulkeley — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:43:59 +0000

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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Reflections on The Wilderness of Dreams (1994)

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:11:48 +0000

Writing has always been a relational process for me. Relationships with an imagined audience, with the people who have taught and influenced me, sometimes with co-authors, and always with the energies of inspiration I personify as Muses—without them, I would never care enough to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. With them, I’ve …

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Works in Progress

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 01:02:32 +0000

Despite the many crises afflicting the world right now, or perhaps because of them, my Muses have been quite active recently. Urgent, even. They have inspired several writing projects I hope to share soon. “Dreams, race, and the Black Lives Matter movement: Results of a survey of American adults” – an article co-written with Michael …

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The Inevitable Spirituality of Dreaming

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 23:08:43 +0000

People make many strange and unexpected discoveries when they begin exploring their dreams. Of these discoveries, perhaps the most surprising is an uncanny encounter with images, themes, and energies that can best be described as spiritual or religious. It’s one thing to realize you have selfish desires or aggressive instincts; it’s another thing entirely to …

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Reflecting on my 2018 Dream Journal

Kelly Bulkeley — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:18:28 +0000

The value of keeping a dream journal is inherent in the practice itself. Simply recording your dreams on a regular basis will increase your dream recall, deepen your self-knowledge, and help you maintain emotional balance in waking life. You can enjoy these benefits even if you never look back at your journal after recording each …

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New Dream Research in 2019

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:51:16 +0000

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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What Dreams Reflect in Your Waking Life

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:06:10 +0000

New research highlights 13 areas of continuity between waking and dreaming. Since 2009 I have been experimenting with word search technologies to identify meaningful patterns in people’s dreams, using an empirical method that others can test, replicate, and verify. In a recent unpublished working paper I performed a “meta-analysis” of these studies to determine the …

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DreamRev: The Many Contributions of Jeremy Taylor

Kelly Bulkeley — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:51:56 +0000

The Rev. Jeremy Taylor was one of the most prolific dream speakers and teachers of modern times. He traveled to every corner of the U.S., and to many countries around the world, reaching out to people and promoting greater awareness of dreaming. He combined his background as a Unitarian-Universalist minister with a deep familiarity with …

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The Dreams of a Religious Cult Member

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 23:22:26 +0000

A new study of a long-term dream journal from a woman who belonged for many years to a physically and spiritually abusive religious cult. Earlier this year a dream research colleague, G. William Domhoff, told me about a new series of dreams available from a person willing to participate in a new experiment with “blind …

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