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DreamStudies is 3 Years Old

Posted by Ryan Hurd on June 20, 2010 | 11 Comments

I realized yesterday that DreamStudies is now 3 years old! This blog has stayed with me as I’ve moved all over the U.S.: from California, to Florida, back to California and now onwards to Pennsylvania later this summer. Also, in that time, I finished my thesis on lucid dreaming, got married, became a freelance [...]

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Allan Hobson and the Neuroscience of Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 7, 2010 | 10 Comments

The neuroscience of dreaming is a relatively new enterprise but has quickly become the major paradigm of experimental dream research today. J. Allan Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard University, is the undisputed celebrity of this scientific outlook, and the author of several popular books on the topic. Hobson, in his 30 years of [...]

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Towards an Integral Science of Consciousness

Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 28, 2009 | 7 Comments

I received this gracious email a few days ago:
Hi Ryan, Here is a quote I read from your bio: “Principally, I am interested in pursuing a more radical materialism for both the sciences and the arts.” Would you say more about what you mean by this? I’ve studied material religion & theology, but [...]

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Dreams of Trauma Survivors – a Clinical Perspective

Posted by Ryan Hurd on August 9, 2008 | 4 Comments

On the topic of the dreams of trauma survivors, I saw another great talk in Montreal by Ann Goelitz, a clinical social worker from New York. In a nutshell, Goelitz’s work compares the emotional content of dreams of trauma survivors to the general population.
Goelitz found that trauma survivors” dreams are empirically more emotional, and [...]

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