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Lucid Dreaming and “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Kelly Bulkeley — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 23:18:02 +0000

This essay is based on a presentation I gave at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry on April 13, 2016, as part of OMSI’s “Reel Science” series in which a lecture precedes the showing of a popular movie. My lecture involved the science of lucid dreaming, and the film was Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s …

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Lucid Dreaming: New Horizons for Research

Kelly Bulkeley — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:29:57 +0000

For most of the 20th century, lucid dreaming received almost no attention from mainstream psychologists. Most researchers seemed to think it was impossible to be dreaming and self-aware at the same time (the philosopher Norman Malcolm’s 1962 book Dreaming made exactly that argument). Even if a few people reported having lucid dream experiences, it was …

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Who Sleeps Worst in the US? The Surprising Truth

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:35:21 +0000

An excellent guest post on Ryan Hurd’s Dream Studies website by A.L. Castonguay looks at sleep as a misunderstood public health issue. Specifically, who in America is sleeping relatively well, and who is sleeping poorly? The latter group is important to identify because inadequate sleep can lead to physical, emotional, and cognitive problems–not to mention …

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