More Black & White vs. Color in Dreams
Mary Walsh, a psychotherapist and grad student at the GTU, offered an intriguing idea about color variations in dreams: “I wonder if the change in our waking experience of color impacts... [Read more of this post]
Dreaming in Black and White
The Wizard of Oz was originally released in 1939, viewed by millions of Americans who delighted in its novel cinematic analogy that waking is to dreaming as black & white film is to color... [Read more of this post]
Oregonian Commentary on the Politics of Dreaming
In today’s Oregonian newspaper I published a commentary piece titled “The politics of dreaming: Even in sleep, Americans show a partisan divide” (4/30/12, p. A9). It’s... [Read more of this post]
Shakespeare Dream Quotes
In honor of the April 26, 1564 baptism of William Shakespeare and his death on April 23, 1616, I have gathered a few of the best quotes about dreams from characters in his plays. Let me know... [Read more of this post]
Animals in Dreams
Below is the section on animal dreams from my video talk for the IASD Australian Regional Conference held last week in Sydney. I would be very interested in hearing from people whose dreams... [Read more of this post]
Australia IASD Presentation on Youtube
The First Australian Regional Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams starts on April 19, and I have prepared a video talk for the conference titled “Dreaming... [Read more of this post]
Dreaming of Nature and the Nature of Dreaming
Next week there will be a conference in Australia titled “Dreams and Imagination: Healing Pathways,” April 19-22 in Sydney. I was hoping to attend in person, but instead I’m... [Read more of this post]
Dream Recall and Political Ideology: Results of a Demographic Survey
An article with the title above just appeared in the IASD journal Dreaming, vol. 22(1), March 2012, pp. 1-9. It’s the latest in a series of research projects I began in 1992 on the interaction... [Read more of this post]
Mary Shelley’s Baby Comes Back to Life
In February of 1815 a baby girl was born two months prematurely to Mary Godwin, seventeen years old at the time, and the poet Percy B. Shelley. Twelve days later Mary went to the child during... [Read more of this post]
Nietzsche’s Prophetic Childhood Dreams of Death
In Ronald Hayman’s 1980 biography Nietzsche: A Critical Life, he mentions two dreams that came to Friedrich Nietzsche early in his life. 1. “I heard the church organ playing as at a funeral.... [Read more of this post]
