A Dream Before Dying
Life’s profound problems often get resolved in the sleep that comes before the final rest, these authors say By Anne Underwood Newsweek Magazine July 25, 2005 issue As a hospice chaplain for 10 years, the Rev. Patricia Bulkley confronted the raw emotions of the dying-their terror at the approaching... [Read more of this post]
Dreaming and the Cinema of David Lynch
(Dreaming: The Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams 2003, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 49-60) Abstract: This essay explores the influence of dreams and dreaming on the filmmaking of David Lynch. Focusing particular attention on Mulholland Drive (2001), Lost Highway (1997), Blue Velvet (1986), and... [Read more of this post]
Penelope as Dreamer: The Perils of Interpretation
Many scholars, not to mention most members of the general public, are deeply skeptical about the possibility of dream research ever producing results of real, legitimate significance. There is good reason to share this skepticism. The incessant bickering between Freudians, Jungians, and the partisans... [Read more of this post]
Sleep and Dream Patterns of Political Liberals and Conservatives
Paper Presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams Berkeley, California – June 25, 2005 Abstract This study examines the dreams of American liberals and conservatives in order to highlight patterns that might correlate with their opposing... [Read more of this post]
Dreams and Their Interpretation
A Two-Year Panel Proposal Submitted to the AAR Comparative Studies in Religion Section Purpose. The three major goals of this panel are to 1) present the latest research findings of religious studies scholars who have devoted sustained critical attention to the phenomenon of dreaming; 2) highlight and... [Read more of this post]
Dreams of the 2004 US Presidential Election: A Research Update
Terrors of the Liberal Night As the US Presidential election enters its final tense weeks, liberals are becoming increasingly agitated in their dreams, with a rising number of nightmares featuring aggressive attacks by President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, and hordes of zombie Republicans. That is... [Read more of this post]
Political Dreaming: Dreams of the 1992 Presidential Election
Download pdf A couple of years ago I was working my way through the major works of Calvin Hall, as part of my doctoral dissertation research. As I read Hall’s book The Meaning of Dreams (1966), I came across the following passage: “Dreams contain few ideas of a political or economic nature. ... [Read more of this post]
The American Dream
“The American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of ourselves have grown weary... [Read more of this post]
Dream-sharing among the Founding Fathers
John Adams and Benjamin Rush: dream-sharing among the Founding Fathers, told in Joseph J. Ellis’ Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation John Adams-Benjamin Rush 1: Dream-Sharing of the Founding Fathers “Rush set the terms for what became a high-stakes game of honesty by proposing that... [Read more of this post]
The Gospel According to Darwin: The Relevance of Cognitive Neuroscience to Religious Studies
How the Mind Works By Steven Pinker New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Pp. xii + 660. $29.95. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind By V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee New York: Quill, 1998 Pp. xvii + 328. $16.00. The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico-Anatomical... [Read more of this post]
