Zeo Sleep Data and the Ur-Patterns of Dream Content
So far I’ve done word search analyses on 21 series of dreams from individuals and 16 sets of dreams from large groups of people, totaling well over 10,000 dream reports. It’s too early to... [Read more of this post]
Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination
I’ve just read an excellent new book, Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination, by Amira Mittermaier (University of California Press, 2011). The following two paragraphs are from... [Read more of this post]
Comparing Dream Content and Zeo Sleep Data
An advanced feature of the Sleep and Dream Database is the ability to analyze dream content using sleep stage measurements from the Zeo Sleep Manager as search constraints. So far, the SDDb has only one... [Read more of this post]
Religion and Critical Psychology: Comments on Jeremy Carrette’s Latest Book
This is a response I wrote to Religion and Critical Psychology: Religious Experience in the Knowledge Economy (Routledge, 2007) by Jeremy Carrette, a Professor of Religious Studies at University of Kent,... [Read more of this post]
Dream Interpretation in Christianity: A Brief History
This article was originally written for The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. The editors asked for a revised entry focusing on modern Europe and America, so I’m posting this piece as... [Read more of this post]
The Art and Science of Dreaming
Why do we have dreams? Where do they come from? What, if anything, do they mean? These mysterious questions have puzzled humankind since the earliest days of history. The best answers, I suggest,... [Read more of this post]
The Dreams and Nightmares of Harry Potter
More than four hundred million people, most of them children and teenagers, have read the Harry Potter novels of J.K. Rowling, immersing themselves in a fantastical world in which broomsticks fly, portraits... [Read more of this post]
Children’s Dreams: A Word Search Analysis (part 5)
From numbers to narrative: The SDDb makes it easier than ever to combine quantitative and qualitative modes of dream research. It’s possible to look only at numbers when studying dreams, just as it’s... [Read more of this post]
Children’s Dreams: A Word Search Analysis (part 4)
To summarize the results of the word search analysis so far: The dreams of this group of 622 children ages 8-18 have more references to family, animals, and fantastic beings, more happiness and sadness,... [Read more of this post]
Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
Werner Herzog’s documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” has just been released in the US, and it’s worth seeing for anyone interested in paleolithic cave art and the origins of... [Read more of this post]
