SDDb Research Notes Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/sddb/ Dream Research & Education Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:50:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png SDDb Research Notes Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/sddb/ 32 32 SDDb Upgrade https://bulkeley.org/sddb-upgrade/ https://bulkeley.org/sddb-upgrade/#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:50:44 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4634 At long last, after many twists and turns, a new and improved version of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb) has been released, just in time for spring! Many thanks to the Elsewhere.to team–Gez Quinn, Kat Juncker, Dan Kennedy, and Victoria Philibert–for their help in the upgrade process.  The SDDb is a growing archive of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/sddb-upgrade/feed/ 0 Dreaming of the Future: The Anticipatory Function of Dreams https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-of-the-future-the-anticipatory-function-of-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-of-the-future-the-anticipatory-function-of-dreams/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2019 23:48:41 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3914 Throughout history, people have believed prophetic dreams can give us glimpses of future events. Is there any reason to believe such dreams are possible? It would seem not. Most instances of a dream predicting a significant event in waking life are probably just coincidences. For example, people periodically dream of car crashes, so at some …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-of-the-future-the-anticipatory-function-of-dreams/feed/ 0 1,001 Nights of Dream Recall https://bulkeley.org/1001-nights-dream-recall/ https://bulkeley.org/1001-nights-dream-recall/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2017 21:18:16 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3485 Between January 8, 2015 and October 4, 2017, I remembered and recorded a dream every night for 1,001 consecutive nights.  Now I’m studying the dreams and trying to find insights that can help in exploring the dream series of other people.  I don’t expect anyone to accept my personal dreams as conclusive evidence for any …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/1001-nights-dream-recall/feed/ 0 What Kinds of Technology Do People Dream About Most Frequently? https://bulkeley.org/what-kinds-of-technology-do-people-dream-about-most-frequently/ https://bulkeley.org/what-kinds-of-technology-do-people-dream-about-most-frequently/#respond Tue, 02 Feb 2016 21:15:07 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3025 The past one hundred years of human history have been dramatically transformed by the invention of several new technologies, each of which has impacted people’s lives in profound and complicated ways. In light of empirical research showing strong continuities between waking and dreaming, we can hypothesize that modern technologies have also made a tangible impact …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/what-kinds-of-technology-do-people-dream-about-most-frequently/feed/ 0 Big Data and the Study of Religion: Can a Google Search Lead to God? https://bulkeley.org/big-data-and-the-study-of-religion-can-a-google-search-lead-to-god/ https://bulkeley.org/big-data-and-the-study-of-religion-can-a-google-search-lead-to-god/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:06:05 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3011 A recent essay in the Sunday Review Section of the New York Times made several observations about religion in contemporary America by analyzing a huge collection of Google search data. In “Googling for God,” economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz examined the search results for various religious terms and questions in relation to where the people lived and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/big-data-and-the-study-of-religion-can-a-google-search-lead-to-god/feed/ 0 Dream Incubation: An Interview with Arianna Huffington https://bulkeley.org/dream-incubation-an-interview-with-arianna-huffington/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-incubation-an-interview-with-arianna-huffington/#respond Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:10:02 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2993 The Huffington Post recently published an interview I did with Arianna Huffington about dream incubation.  She has a long-standing interest in sleep and dreams, along with spiritual curiosity and an appreciation for scientific research–a perfect audience for what I’ve been working on over the past couple of years.  What I told her about dream incubation …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-incubation-an-interview-with-arianna-huffington/feed/ 0 Neuro-Nonsense: The Perils, and Promise, of Cognitive Science for the Study of Religion https://bulkeley.org/neuro-nonsense-the-perils-and-promise-of-cognitive-science-for-the-study-of-religion/ https://bulkeley.org/neuro-nonsense-the-perils-and-promise-of-cognitive-science-for-the-study-of-religion/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:03:03 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2978 This is the text of a paper I presented at “The Psychology of Religion/Religion of Psychology” conference held at the University of Chicago Divinity School  on March 6, 2015.  My paper was the first in a panel devoted to “Disjunctions Between Contemporary Psychology and Religion.” On July 17, 1990, President George H.W. Bush announced in Proclamation …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/neuro-nonsense-the-perils-and-promise-of-cognitive-science-for-the-study-of-religion/feed/ 1 Thanks to Larry Lessig, Kurt Bollacker, and Jaron Lanier https://bulkeley.org/thanks-to-larry-lessig-kurt-bollacker-and-jaron-lanier/ https://bulkeley.org/thanks-to-larry-lessig-kurt-bollacker-and-jaron-lanier/#comments Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:39:33 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2895 In developing the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a digital archive and search engine for dream research, I have been acutely aware that I possess no formal training in computer science or internet technology.  My doctoral degree is in religion and psychological studies, and I learned many things in the course of my graduate education, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/trouble-night-shift-bad-dreams/feed/ 0 Dreaming in Adolescence: A “Blind” Word Search of a Teenage Girl’s Dream Series https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/#respond Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:25:14 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2748 Here’s a pdf file of the word search study I did with “Bea,” published in Dreaming (2012), Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-252:   Dreaming in Adolescence            

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