September’s Moon Dreaming Post

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 17, 2008  |  2 Comments

Listen to Miles Davis’s classic Moon Dreams while you read!

Today, the day after the full moon, I looked back into the research on the Moon’s Effect on Dreams done by the College of Metaphysics in Missouri. When I first blogged about their lucid dreaming and moon proposal this past February, I was skeptical because [...]

The Logos of Dreaming

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 23, 2008  |  3 Comments

What is the logic behind dreams? Is dreaming only a pale imitation of our waking abilities, as some say, or does it represent an entirely different ability? This question has forever shadowed the scientific exploration of dreams.
The question can be summed up as: is dreaming a failure of cognition, a breakdown of logic, [...]

Angel Dreams? Submit Them Here

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 13, 2008  |  6 Comments

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 [...]

Dream Resources

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 27, 2008  |  Comments Off

Dream and Sleep Research
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

REM is not the Man Holding Us Down

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 19, 2008  |  2 Comments

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 [...]

Peer-Reviewed Dream Studies Coming Right Up

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 [...]