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]
Lucid Dreaming Quiz Answers
Who is more likely to say they have had a dream of being aware they are dreaming: Men or women? Women 66.8%, Men 59.8% People between the ages of 30... [Read more of this post]
Patterns in Jewish Dreaming
As a follow-up to the previous post about religious and non-religious people’s dreams, I’ve looked more carefully at the responses of people... [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]
Proud to Be a Primate
“Our goodness is as deep as our darkness”—that was Kimberley Patton’s gloss on the findings of Franz de Waal, a primatologist who spoke on Saturday... [Read more of this post]
Freud and Neuroscience: A Return to Origins
A chapter I wrote with that title appears in the recently published book Disciplining Freud on Religion: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences,... [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]
Sleep, Dreaming, and Human Health
Dominican University’s Albertus Magnus Society will present a lecture titled “Sleep, Dreaming, and Human Health” by Dr. Kelly Bulkeley, visiting... [Read more of this post]
American Dreamers: How Sleep, Dreams, and Religion Intersect
Interested in the ways that sleep, dreams and religion intersect for American Dreamers? Below are some of the data charts from my book American Dreamers. Religious... [Read more of this post]
