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Dream Interpretation without a Dream Dictionary

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 28, 2009 | 3 Comments

Over the next week or so, I am going to cover my ten favorite ways of working with dreams without buying a dream dictionary.
It’s not that I think dream dictionaries are useless. Actually I have one and consult it at least once a week. However, the dream dictionary can only provide one way of working [...]

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FAQ about Dreaming

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

I was interviewed by a middle school student last year, and recently found the manuscript. I”m going to publish it here because she asked so many great questions about the current state of dream studies. The interview was a real education for me about how young people have the keen ability to seek [...]

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New Survey for Finding the Meaning of Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 16, 2009 | 2 Comments

Here’s another opportunity to participate in dream research.
Carey Morewedge of Carnegie Mellon University and Michael Norton of Harvard are conducting a short survey on dreams and memory. I took it in less than 10 minutes. The results will be reported in the New York Times, thanks to dream-enthusiast and journalist John Tierney.
Click here [...]

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Solo Dream Interpretation Reinforces Your Personal Mythology

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 27, 2009 | 5 Comments

ScienceDaily has really been covering some great dream research studies recently. Earlier this week, SD reported on a group of studies that look into how ordinary people find meaning in their dreams.
The studies cited investigated under which conditions do people find meaning in their dreams. Their results, surveyed from various groups of US [...]

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Does the Full Moon Effect your Dreams?

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 16, 2008 | 48 Comments

Tomorrow is the full moon, depending on your ancestral tradition it is known as the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon or the Hay Moon. In all traditions, it’s gonna be big and round. But more pertinently, will this rising stone of Artemis effect your dreams?
Studies on this subject are hard to find, but [...]

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Why do Nightmares Happen?

Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 10, 2008 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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