How Not to Raise a Witch

Many years ago a student told me a story about her childhood dreams that still haunts me.  It’s not a happy story—in fact I find it incredibly sad—but... [Read more of this post]

The Distinguishing Features of Big Dreams

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... [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... [Read more of this post]

Religious and Non-Religious People: A Survey of their Dreams

People who are not Christian and not religiously observant report higher dream recall and a higher frequency of most typical dreams. That’s one... [Read more of this post]

Dreaming in Christianity and Islam

At a time when Christianity and Islam appear to be mortal enemies locked in an increasingly bloody “clash of civilizations,” new insights are needed... [Read more of this post]

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    scientific studies of dream meaning using a system of content analysis

    American Academy of Religion

  • DreamScape (1984) trailer

  • Salvador Dali Dream Sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Spellbound” (1945)

  • Word Searching as a Tool in the Study of Dreams, or, Dream Research in the Era of Big Data

  • Dreaming of Nature and the Nature of Dreaming

  • Orson Welles Tries to Pretend He Had a Lucid Dream

  • Agent Cooper’s Dream in “Twin Peaks” (1990-1991)

  • The International Association for the Study of Dreams

    DreamsStudies.org - Dream Studies Portal

  • The Tornado Scene in “The Wizard of Oz” (1939): Dorothy’s Dream Begins

  • Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) trailer