science Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/science/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 05 May 2025 22:10:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png science Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/science/ 32 32 Reflections on An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming (1997) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 22:10:11 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4657 Early in my career, I had attitude about writing “secondary” texts. I didn’t want to write about what other people thought, I wanted to write about my own ideas. That’s why when the opportunity arose to write a book intended as an introductory textbook for college students, I hesitated. The offer came by way of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/feed/ 0 What Are the Ethics of Dreaming? https://bulkeley.org/is-an-ethics-of-dreaming-possible/ https://bulkeley.org/is-an-ethics-of-dreaming-possible/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 21:56:35 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4297 When people think about ethics, they usually focus on the evaluation of good or bad behaviors in the waking state. But what about the ethical status of the one-third of our lives that we spend in sleep? Do we have any ethical duties or obligations relating to sleep? Do dreamers have any basic rights or …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/is-an-ethics-of-dreaming-possible/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 The Science of Dreaming: 9 Key Points https://bulkeley.org/science-dreaming-9-key-points/ https://bulkeley.org/science-dreaming-9-key-points/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2017 01:40:25 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3513 The most important findings of scientific dream research can be summarized in nine key points.  Many important questions about dreaming remain unanswered, but these nine findings have solid empirical evidence to support them.  Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a trigger for dreaming, but is not identical with dreaming. All mammals have sleep cycles in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/science-dreaming-9-key-points/feed/ 0 Recent Interviews About “Big Dreams” https://bulkeley.org/recent-interviews-about-big-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/recent-interviews-about-big-dreams/#respond Wed, 06 Apr 2016 20:18:10 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3140 In the past couple of weeks I have spoken several times with journalists about Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion.  It’s a daunting experience to have smart people read what you’ve written and ask sharp questions about how you put together your argument… and all the more intimidating with a tape …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/recent-interviews-about-big-dreams/feed/ 0 The Origins of Religion in Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-origins-of-religion-in-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-origins-of-religion-in-dreaming/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:18:13 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2958 One of the oldest theories about the origins of religion argues that religious beliefs and practices are derived from the experience of dreaming.  This theory is most often associated with the 19th century British anthropologist E.B. Tylor, as expressed in this passage from the 1873 work Primitive Culture: “The evidence of visions corresponds with the …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-origins-of-religion-in-dreaming/feed/ 0 Digital Dream Analysis: A New Article on Word Search Methods https://bulkeley.org/digital-dream-analysis-a-new-article-on-word-search-methods/ https://bulkeley.org/digital-dream-analysis-a-new-article-on-word-search-methods/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2014 23:23:14 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2943 The latest issue of the journal Consciousness and Cognition has an article of mine titled “Digital dream analysis: A revised method,” that’s the fruition of several years of data-driven work.  It lays out the latest developments in testing and refining the word search template programmed into the Sleep and Dream Database, a digital archive and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/digital-dream-analysis-a-new-article-on-word-search-methods/feed/ 1 The Religious Content of Dreams: A New Scientific Foundation https://bulkeley.org/the-religious-content-of-dreams-a-new-scientific-foundation/ https://bulkeley.org/the-religious-content-of-dreams-a-new-scientific-foundation/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:13:51 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2970 This is an article from the journal Pastoral Psychology 58 (2009), 93-106.  It was the first time I tried applying word search methods in the analysis of a specific aspect of dream content in a series of dreams from a particular individual.  Although I don’t foreground the idea, it’s an early attempt at “blind analysis” in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-religious-content-of-dreams-a-new-scientific-foundation/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 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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