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]
Tracking Robert Bosnak’s Dreams
The Sleep and Dream Database has just added a new series of dreams to its collection, thanks to the generosity of Robert Bosnak. In his 1996 book Tracks... [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]
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]
SDDb Baselines for Recent Dreams and Memorable Dreams (Part 2 of Creating a Baseline for Studying Patterns in Dream Content)
“Dreams are not mysterious, supernatural, or esoteric phenomena. They are not messages from the gods nor are they prophecies of the future.”... [Read more of this post]
Creating a Baseline for Studying Patterns in Dream Content (Part 1)
Compared to what? That’s a question I’ve learned from Tracey Kahan to ask whenever I study a set or series of dreams. If I find, for... [Read more of this post]
