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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.
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Angel Dreams? Submit Them Here
Noted dream researcher Robert Van de Castle is collecting dream reports about angels from the public. Angels and other figures composed of light have been making their appearance in Western dreams for several thousand years, yet their dream mythology has scarcely been explored except from a strictly theistic perspective. Van de Castle hopes […]
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Psychogeography and Dreams
One of the most original dream-related sites on the web, urbandreamscape.com, has begun a blog detailing their dream incubation experiments: the Oneironauticum.
Jennifer Dumpert and associates discuss their participation in on-going group dreaming projects with an emphasis on how dreams and waking life meet through the perception of landscape and cityscape. It’s part slumber party, […]
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 […]
REM is not the Man Holding Us Down
It’s been roughly 54 years since a young graduate student discovered and named REM sleep, which is commonly known as the “dream state.” While it is true that dreaming can occur in all of the sleep states (as cognition, mental imagery, and uncanny kinesthetics), it is REM that grants us the long dramatic […]
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Peer-Reviewed Dream Studies Coming Right Up
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 […]