technology Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/technology/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 04 May 2025 19:54:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png technology Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/technology/ 32 32 Interpreting Dreams with AI-Generated Imagery https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/ https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/#respond Sun, 04 May 2025 19:54:59 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4647 The image-generating power of new AI systems has huge untapped potential for the practice of dream interpretation—and some potential downsides. Even more than AI interpretive texts, the dramatic power of AI interpretive images may open new vistas for exploring the meanings of dreams. The Value of Dream-Sharing The difficulty most of us have in understanding …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/interpreting-dreams-with-ai-generated-imagery/feed/ 0 New Dream Posts from Psychology Today https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/ https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:08:29 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4538 Here are the recent posts I have written for Psychology Today, going back to the middle of last summer. Although each one is written as a stand-alone discussion of a special topic in dreaming, I now realize they also form a series of interrelated texts, like the chapters of a book I didn’t consciously know …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/feed/ 0 The Ethical Challenges of Dream Video Technologies https://bulkeley.org/the-ethic-challenges-of-dream-video-technologies/ https://bulkeley.org/the-ethic-challenges-of-dream-video-technologies/#respond Sun, 03 Oct 2021 22:52:23 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4345 New technologies are making it possible to use brain data to create video reconstructions of people’s dreams while they sleep. Is this thrilling, terrifying, or both? Here’s how it works. Researchers are learning how to observe an individual’s brain while viewing a specific image (let’s say a cat) and how to identify neural patterns correlated …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-ethic-challenges-of-dream-video-technologies/feed/ 0 The Best Technology for Studying Dreams https://bulkeley.org/the-best-technology-for-studying-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/the-best-technology-for-studying-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:04:09 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4300 It’s hard to beat the simple practice of keeping a dream journal. Many exciting new tools are being developed to help us understand the nature and functions of our dreams. For example, researchers are developing technologies for generating a video “read-out” of a person’s dreams based on neural signals from the brain. They are devising …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-best-technology-for-studying-dreams/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 Nightmares of a Smart Home https://bulkeley.org/nightmares-of-a-smart-home/ https://bulkeley.org/nightmares-of-a-smart-home/#respond Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:39:16 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3888 Dreams from Germans in the 1930’s highlight the danger of new home technologies. I have always been a strong advocate for the creative potentials of dreaming and its capacity to envision future realities. Now, however, I worry that dreams from an earlier era may have predicted a new technology with frightening potentials for abuse in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/nightmares-of-a-smart-home/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 The Technology of Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:10:53 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2906 “For myself I never found need of more than four or five hours’ sleep in the twenty-four. I never dream.” So said the famously hard-working inventor Thomas Edison in 1921 in his Diary and Sundry Observations.  Edison claimed the only truly restful sleep was totally unconscious, and he regarded dreaming as a waste of mental …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/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/thanks-to-larry-lessig-kurt-bollacker-and-jaron-lanier/feed/ 1 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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