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14 Tips for Getting Rid of Nightmares

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 2, 2010 | 5 Comments

Sometimes the only dreams we remember are the ones we wish we could forget. Nightmares can be instructive, and most psychologists believe that they are a healthy part of life. But if you are plagued by repetitive nightmares and are losing sleep, sometimes changing your daily habits can reduce nightmare frequency. In general, nightmares can [...]

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Calling Northern California Dreamers

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments

For my readers in the San Francisco Bay Area, make note of a Dream Studies Open Forum this Friday June 24th, in Berkeley. Hosted at the Dream Institute, this gathering is open to the public and anyone interested in discussion and networking with dream workers and researchers. If time permits, we will have a round [...]

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Crawling Out of the Winter Cave

Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 15, 2009 | 4 Comments

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I just crawled out of my winter cave and discovered that it’s 2009. While I get back into the groove, here’s a few scientific articles released over the last few weeks on the subject of sleep disorders that you may have missed.

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Lucid Nightmares – Participate in Dream Research

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 6, 2008 | 40 Comments

Want to participate in dream research” I”m now officially collecting dream reports for lucid nightmares, a type of lucid dreams that is often not discussed in the field of dream studies. I will present my findings next summer at the annual conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams in Chicago.
This is [...]

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Why do Nightmares Happen?

Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 10, 2008 | 3 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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Psychogeography and Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment

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, [...]

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