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Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Why do Nightmares Happen?

I missed this excellent podcast about contemporary nightmare research when it was released last fall.  NPR interviews New York Times science journalist Natalie Angier and dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley about the whole mess: theories about the cause of nightmares,  common nightmares, as well as how to deal.
Here’s the link for NPR’s Anatomy of your Nightmare.
Also, […]

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The Dream Institute Now Online

I’m happy to announce that the Dream Institute of Northern California is now online, making it easier than ever to see what innovative dream events are planned in the center of the American dream scene: Berkeley, CA.
If you live in the Bay Area, make contact and drop by for one of the Culture Dreaming sessions […]

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Are Boring Dreams our Western Heritage?

Since I’m in the business of pointing out good dream research, today I thought I would point out the opposite. Unfortunately, this fluff piece on dreams from The Daily Advertiser in Arizona is pretty typical of mainstream journalism. It’s an entertaining read, but devoid of actual journalistic research.
The title of this article “Stuff […]

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Dream Resources

Dream and Sleep Research
Dream and Nightmare Laboratory
excellent information about nightmares and sleep paralysis
Dreaming
Online articles from the premiere Academic journal in contemporary dream research
DreamTime
Online articles from the magazine published by the International Association for the Study of Dreams
DreamGate
One of the oldest authority sites about dreams with tons of articles, advice, and information
International Association for the Study […]

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Science says sleep good

Check out the English translation of this mainstream piece on sleep and dream research just out of Korea. This article about the benefits of sleep is more holistic than the usual reductionist perspective that comes out of New York. Which is to say, the Korean piece succeeded in mentioning dreaming at all. […]

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Dream Interpretation and its Discontents

I just uploaded a new essay titled the Trouble with Dream Studies, which is meant to contextualize my perspective about dream research and its place - or misplace - within Western science.  The essay also introduces a series of further thoughts about the mysteries of dreaming which explore how our beliefs can construct - and […]

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

The Trouble with Dream Studies

This essay introduces a series of articles about the difficulties facing dream studies as a field of knowledge. These difficulties emerge at every level of participation with dreaming, from third-person gathering of dream reports to first-person remembered experience. How do we know what we know? What is the spectrum of possibility […]