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 [...]
Tags:BRP, Dream & Sleep Research, epistemology
Filed Under: New Dream Studies
Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 25, 2007 | 2 Comments
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 – [...]
Tags:Dream Interpretation, epistemology
Filed Under: Dream Interpretation
Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 25, 2007 | 13 Comments
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 [...]
Tags:Dream Interpretation, epistemology, evolution
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Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 24, 2007 | 4 Comments
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 [...]
Tags:consciousness, epistemology
Filed Under: Consciousness & Health
