Areas of Research Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/research/ Dream Research & Education Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:56:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png Areas of Research Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/research/ 32 32 Answering the Dream Questions of a High School Student https://bulkeley.org/answering-the-dream-questions-of-a-high-school-student/ https://bulkeley.org/answering-the-dream-questions-of-a-high-school-student/#comments Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:56:04 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2923 Like many dream researchers I periodically receive emails from high school students asking for help with a class essay or project.  It’s fun to think of the best, clearest, most useful ways of responding to these requests.  I’d like to believe that the work I and all my colleagues in dream research are doing can …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/feed/ 0 Sexual Dreaming Before Sexual Activity https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/ https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:26:10 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2742 Sexual dreams have long been part of human experience, as we know from historical sources.  For example, the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus, an ancient manual of dream interpretation, devoted several pages to the various types and classes of sexual dreams.   However, we do not know how widespread sexual dreams are, who has them most often, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/sexual-dreaming-sexual-activity/feed/ 0 Dreaming in the Digital Age: The Impact of New Database Technologies on Dream Research https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-digital-age-impact-database/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-digital-age-impact-database/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:41:52 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2732 For several years I’ve been inspired and guided by an admittedly idealistic vision of future technology in the study of dreams:   One day, everyone in the world will have an easy and private way to enter their dreams into a collective database we can all access and study.    If that were possible, if …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-digital-age-impact-database/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 Dream Recall: The Highs and the Lows https://bulkeley.org/dream-recall-highs-lows/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-recall-highs-lows/#respond Wed, 22 May 2013 20:02:24 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2710 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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-recall-highs-lows/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 Obama’s Brain Activity Map: Good News for the Psychology of Religion https://bulkeley.org/obamas-brain-activity-map-good/ https://bulkeley.org/obamas-brain-activity-map-good/#respond Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:17:29 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2651 On July 17, 1990 President George H.W. Bush initiated the “Decade of the Brain” by making an official proclamation that began with these words:   “The human brain, a 3-pound mass of interwoven nerve cells that controls our activity, is one of the most magnificent—and mysterious—wonders of creation.  The seat of human intelligence, interpreter of senses, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/obamas-brain-activity-map-good/feed/ 0 New Venue for Talking About Sleep and Dream Research https://bulkeley.org/venue-talking-sleep-dream-research/ https://bulkeley.org/venue-talking-sleep-dream-research/#respond Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:58:55 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2570 I’ve just started writing a blog on sleep and dreams for the Huffington Post—let me know what you think!  Initially I’ll focus on children’s dreams, using material from the book I co-wrote with my mother, then eventually I’ll broaden the scope and write about new developments in dream research and cultural expressions of dreaming.   …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/venue-talking-sleep-dream-research/feed/ 0 Dreaming in Adolescence https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:44:32 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2549 In the current issue of the IASD journal Dreaming (Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-252) I have an article with results of a blind word search analysis of a teenage girl’s dream series.  (Many thanks to the anonymous dreamer, “Bea,” and to Bill Domhoff for mediating our interactions.)  The article is my latest effort at developing …

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