word searches Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/word-searches/ Dream Research & Education Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:10:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png word searches Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/word-searches/ 32 32 Dreams Conference 2017 https://bulkeley.org/dreams-conference-2017/ https://bulkeley.org/dreams-conference-2017/#respond Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:10:31 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3408   The 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams begins on Friday, June 16, in Anaheim, California.  I’ll be making several presentations, all of which draw on findings from the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb). On Saturday, a panel on “Dreams and Current Politics” will include Jody Grundy, Jeremy Taylor, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreams-conference-2017/feed/ 0 Trouble on the Night Shift: Bad Dreams About Work https://bulkeley.org/trouble-night-shift-bad-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/trouble-night-shift-bad-dreams/#respond Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:18:29 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2830 “Sleep, the gentlest of the gods, the spirit’s peace, whom care flies from: who soothes the body wearied with toil, and readies it for fresh labors.”   That’s how the Roman poet Ovid described sleep in his first century CE masterpiece the Metamorphoses.   Many people today desperately seek the restorative blessings of sleep just …

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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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence-blind/feed/ 0 Dreaming in Adolescence https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:44:32 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2549 In the current issue of the IASD journal Dreaming (Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-252) I have an article with results of a blind word search analysis of a teenage girl’s dream series.  (Many thanks to the anonymous dreamer, “Bea,” and to Bill Domhoff for mediating our interactions.)  The article is my latest effort at developing …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-adolescence/feed/ 1 Tracking Robert Bosnak’s Dreams https://bulkeley.org/tracking-robert-bosnaks-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/tracking-robert-bosnaks-dreams/#respond Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:41:57 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2537 The Sleep and Dream Database has just added a new series of dreams to its collection, thanks to the generosity of Robert Bosnak.  In his 1996 book Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming he included an appendix with a series of 51 dreams recorded during a seven-week period of travel and personal transition.  With his …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/tracking-robert-bosnaks-dreams/feed/ 0 What’s In a Lucid Dream? https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreams/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:37:01 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2517 What do people dream about when they have lucid dreams?  What’s going on in the dream when someone has the realization, “I am dreaming”?  Here’s another example of how the word search function of the SDDb can help get a research project started.  The database includes a set of surveys (Demographic Survey 2012) in which …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/lucid-dreams/feed/ 1 Dreaming of the Dead: Patterns of Word Usage in Visitation Dreams https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-dead-patterns-word-usage/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-dead-patterns-word-usage/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:29:59 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2504 Here’s a good example of how to use the word search function of the Sleep and Dream Database.   It focuses on “visitation dreams,” i.e., dreams in which people who are dead appear as if alive.  These vivid and highly memorable dreams have been reported in cultures all over the world, in many periods of history. …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-dead-patterns-word-usage/feed/ 1 We Have a Winner! https://bulkeley.org/winner/ https://bulkeley.org/winner/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:03:42 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2432 Congratulations to Michael Paul Coder, the winner of the dream research contest I posed last week.  Michael correctly identified the gender, age, and dream type of six sets of dreams using only word search frequencies and my baseline hypotheses to make his inferences.  He also correctly identified the bonus questions of which sets of dreams …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/winner/feed/ 1 A Dream Research Contest https://bulkeley.org/dream-research-contest/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-research-contest/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:36:34 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2416 To help test the initial hypotheses arising from the SDDb baselines, I am offering a dream research contest, open to anyone willing to give it a try.  The first person to send me (at bulkeleyk@gmail.com) the correct answers will win a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com.   The contest challenges you to look at the …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-research-contest/feed/ 1 The Distinguishing Features of Big Dreams https://bulkeley.org/distinguishing-features-big-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/distinguishing-features-big-dreams/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:58:17 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2398 If someone presented you with two sets of dreams, one of most recent dreams and one of highly memorable dreams, you could predict with a high degree of confidence which type of dream was in which set, based only on word usage frequencies. The set with more references to flying, air, family, animals, fantastic beings, …

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