Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments
This is just a heads-up about a new feature of this blog. I just signed up with Bloggers for Peer Reviewed Research Reporting. What this means is that when I blog about some peer-reviewed research article, I’ll have a flashy icon embedded in the post. The real benefit of this system [...]
Tags:BRP, Dream & Sleep Research, epistemology
Filed Under: New Dream Studies
Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments
Anthropologist C. Riley Aug has announced her new web page about “exploring the role of thresholds in negotiating identity through archaeology, folklore and literature.” I presented her fascinating research a few months ago in my post about lucid dream reality checks. Now you don’t have to take my word for [...]
Tags:thresholds
Filed Under: Consciousness & Health
Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments
From the recent press release by the Global Lucid Dreaming Experiment:
What effect does the moon have on our dreams? A team of researchers at the College of Metaphysics are seeking to find the answer in the next two months as the positioning of the earth, moon, and the sun move through a sequence rarely [...]
Tags:Eco-Dreaming, lucid dreams
Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming
Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 17, 2008 | 4 Comments
I just uploaded a new essay about the deep history of lucid dreaming and its potential role in Paleolithic rock art.
There’s always a danger of projecting our ideas about dreams into the past, especially the deep past, but as archaeologist David Lewis-Williams has reminded, humans cannot refrain from dreaming. I take this a [...]
Tags:cognitive archaeology, lucid dreams, rock art, shamanism
Filed Under: Eco-Dreaming
Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 15, 2008 | 4 Comments
Great news! My proposal has been accepted by the Anthropology of Consciousness for this year’s annual SAC meeting at Yale Divinity School. The conference is March 19-23, 2008 for anybody in the area who is interested in this year’s research focus on shamanism, spiritual crises, spirit possession, and the interface [...]
Tags:ecological self, Transcendence
Filed Under: Consciousness & Health
Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 12, 2008 | No Comments
Canadian dream researchers have confirmed a link between babies” personalities and their nightmare frequency later in childhood, as reported in the January 1, 2008 issue of the journal Sleep. In general, anxious babies are more likely to continue having bad dreams and nightmares as they reach preschool age.
This study backs up Ernest Hartmann‘s [...]
Tags:Nightmares & Dream Terrors
Filed Under: Nightmares & Dream Terrors
