Sleep and Dream Database Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/sleep-and-dream-database/ 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 Sleep and Dream Database Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/sleep-and-dream-database/ 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 Building the Dream Library https://bulkeley.org/building-the-dream-library/ https://bulkeley.org/building-the-dream-library/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:54:00 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4597 Construction is going well so far on the Dream Library, a stand-alone structure on a rural, forested property near Portland, Oregon. As many friends and colleagues know, the project has taken a long time to reach this stage, but at last it’s beginning to take actual shape. The building will provide a long-term archive for …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/building-the-dream-library/feed/ 0 The Nightmares of Halloween https://bulkeley.org/the-nightmares-of-halloween/ https://bulkeley.org/the-nightmares-of-halloween/#respond Tue, 26 Oct 2021 23:52:58 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4379 It’s more than a metaphor to say that Halloween is a time when our nightmares go on parade. The scary images, decorations, and costumes that take over the month of October have a direct psychological connection to the actual themes and patterns of people’s nightmares. If we look at current research on nightmares—who has them, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-nightmares-of-halloween/feed/ 0 Aggression in Dreams https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:54:48 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4309 Hitting, fighting, chasing, shooting, killing—these are not only common themes in the news each day, they are also recurrent features of our dreams at night. Few studies have focused specifically on aggression in dreaming, even though Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, claimed that “the inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/feed/ 0 A Database for Dreamers https://bulkeley.org/a-database-for-dreamers/ https://bulkeley.org/a-database-for-dreamers/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:34:50 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4199 The Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb) is a digital archive designed to promote an empirical, hands-on approach to dream research.  The SDDb enables users to apply basic tools of data analysis to identify meaningful dimensions of dreaming experience.  The goal of the SDDb is not to replace other modes of dream interpretation, but rather to …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/a-database-for-dreamers/feed/ 0 The New Dream Studies and the Wall Street Journal https://bulkeley.org/the-new-dream-studies-and-the-wall-street-journal/ https://bulkeley.org/the-new-dream-studies-and-the-wall-street-journal/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:33:36 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4194 Dream researchers are creatively deploying a variety of big data technologies to open a new era of oneiric discovery. An article appeared earlier today by Robert Lee Hotz, science reporter for the Wall Street Journal, titled “New Insights into Dreams and What They Say About Us.” It’s a great article, well-written and thoroughly researched, and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-new-dream-studies-and-the-wall-street-journal/feed/ 0 Basic Patterns in Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/basic-patterns-in-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/basic-patterns-in-dreaming/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:08:01 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4078 The basic patterns of dream content are coming into sharper focus, thanks to new technologies of digital analysis. By using these tools to study large and diverse collections of high-quality dream data, and then making those tools and data publicly available, we can illuminate recurrent frequencies of dream content that others can easily review, replicate, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/basic-patterns-in-dreaming/feed/ 0 Dreams and Politics 2020: Preparing for New Research https://bulkeley.org/dreams-and-politics-2020-preparing-for-new-research/ https://bulkeley.org/dreams-and-politics-2020-preparing-for-new-research/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:29:26 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3883 To prepare for a new study of dreams during the 2020 U.S. Presidential election campaign, I am doing a brief review of my previous work in this area, to remind myself of what I have learned so far and what seems most important to investigate next. I have been studying dreams and politics since 1992, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreams-and-politics-2020-preparing-for-new-research/feed/ 0 Reflecting on my 2018 Dream Journal https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/ https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/#respond Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:18:28 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3785 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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/feed/ 0 What Do People Think About Dreams? Preview of a New Survey https://bulkeley.org/what-do-people-think-about-dreams-preview-of-a-new-survey/ https://bulkeley.org/what-do-people-think-about-dreams-preview-of-a-new-survey/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 22:12:39 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3722 A new survey reveals the wide range of attitudes that contemporary Americans hold towards dreaming.  It might seem that in dreams you enter a purely subjective realm, a world of total solipsism in which nothing exists but the individual self.  Yet the more we learn about dreaming, the more we realize how deeply it is …

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