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Peer-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 […]
Sunday, November 25th, 2007Dream 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, 2007The 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 […]
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007About
My name is Ryan Dungan Hurd and The Dream Studies Portal is my baby - a blend of dream research, consciousness studies, and deep culture critique. I started this blog in 2007 to fill a need on the web for reliable and expert information about contemporary dream science, especially lucid dreaming, nightmares, and […]
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Laying the groundwork for conversation
My comrade-in-consciousness Kevin Kovelant wrote a post recently about how easily discussions about said consciousness can suffer from miscommunication. This is relevant here as we argue about the terms “lucidity” and “consciousness” in regards to dreams, but are often talking about different things altogether, such as awareness of one’s external environment, awareness that one […]