Obama’s Brain Activity Map: Good News for the Psychology of Religion
On July 17, 1990 President George H.W. Bush initiated the “Decade of the Brain” by making an official proclamation that began with these words: “The... [Read more of this post]
New Venue for Talking About Sleep and Dream Research
I’ve just started writing a blog on sleep and dreams for the Huffington Post—let me know what you think! Initially I’ll focus on children’s dreams,... [Read more of this post]
Dreaming in Adolescence
In the current issue of the IASD journal Dreaming (Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-252) I have an article with results of a blind word search analysis of a teenage... [Read more of this post]
What’s In a Lucid Dream?
What do people dream about when they have lucid dreams? What’s going on in the dream when someone has the realization, “I am dreaming”?... [Read more of this post]
Dreaming of the Dead: Patterns of Word Usage in Visitation Dreams
Here’s a good example of how to use the word search function of the Sleep and Dream Database. It focuses on “visitation dreams,”... [Read more of this post]
1001 Zeo Nights
Last night (December 19, 2012) I recorded my 1001st night of sleep data using the Zeo sleep monitoring system. I first started using the Zeo on August... [Read more of this post]
The Call of Cthulhu: A Pioneering Effort in Empirical Dream Research
H.P. Lovecraft (pictured to the left) wrote the short story “The Call of Cthulhu” in 1926, and first published it in 1928 in the magazine Weird... [Read more of this post]
We Have a Winner!
Congratulations to Michael Paul Coder, the winner of the dream research contest I posed last week. Michael correctly identified the gender, age, and... [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]
A Primal Difference (Part 3 of Creating a Baseline for Studying Patterns in Dream Content)
What makes unusually memorable dreams different from average, ordinary dreams? Putting it in Jungian terms, how are big dreams different from little... [Read more of this post]
