Comments on: Zeo Sleep Data and the Ur-Patterns of Dream Content https://bulkeley.org/zeo-sleep-data-ur-patterns-dream/ Dream Research & Education Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Michael Paul Coder https://bulkeley.org/zeo-sleep-data-ur-patterns-dream/#comment-373 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:29:47 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1989#comment-373 Good work! I also recently processed 4,000 publicly available dreams to improve Lightened Dream’s dream-sign builder, and believe I have found the most common and useful dream sign: doors.

Since then I have been advising my students to stick a note to perform a reality check on one of their doors. And to try and make a habit of pulling or pushing doors in the wrong direction before opening them.

]]> By: Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/zeo-sleep-data-ur-patterns-dream/#comment-372 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:57:52 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1989#comment-372 In reply to Paul Duffy.

Thanks, Paul, that’s a great suggestion. I’ll study the Mairesse paper and think about how its method could be applied to the study of dreams.

]]> By: Paul Duffy https://bulkeley.org/zeo-sleep-data-ur-patterns-dream/#comment-371 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:47:09 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1989#comment-371 How difficult would it be to test personality traits vs. dream content?

I’m thinking of a paper by Mairesse et al, Using Linguistic Cues for the Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation and Text. (http://www.jair.org/media/2349/live-2349-3562-jair.pdf)

Maybe you could set up an on-line Big-5 personality test and gather that information when dreams are submitted? I think that would be easier than trying to discover the dreamer’s waking life concerns.

]]> By: Ryan https://bulkeley.org/zeo-sleep-data-ur-patterns-dream/#comment-370 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:41:34 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1989#comment-370 you wouldn’t need Zeo to do that kind of thing I guess, but their sleep journal does make it easy and it’s more or less quantifiable.

And then you can see if pepperoni pizza really increases nightmares!

]]> By: Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/zeo-sleep-data-ur-patterns-dream/#comment-369 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:10:33 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1989#comment-369 In reply to Ryan.

Right, so it would be possible for example to connect pre-sleep stress with certain kinds of dream content that literally or metaphorically express it.

]]> By: Ryan https://bulkeley.org/zeo-sleep-data-ur-patterns-dream/#comment-368 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:37:47 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1989#comment-368 Interesting! For the Zeo set, I wonder if there could be correlations to find using the Zeo sleep journal ie not specific sleep staging data but the levels of their various “sleep stealers” (stress, alcohol, caffeine, etc).

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