Dream Recall: The Highs and the Lows
Why is it so hard to remember dreams? Scientific evidence dating back to the 1950’s has shown the brain is active in various ways throughout the sleep... [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]
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]
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]
A Dream Research Contest
To help test the initial hypotheses arising from the SDDb baselines, I am offering a dream research contest, open to anyone willing to give it a try. The... [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]
Cosmo Romance Dreams
A couple of years ago a reporter from Cosmopolitan magazine sent me a list of dream types she had gathered from other women in her office. I can’t... [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... [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... [Read more of this post]
