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Kelly Bulkeley (born 1962) is an American author and researcher in the fields of
dreams A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, alth ...
and the
psychology of religion Psychology of religion consists of the application of List of psychological research methods, psychological methods and interpretive frameworks to the diverse contents of Religion, religious traditions as well as to both religious and Irreligion, ...
. A Past President of the
International Association for the Study of Dreams International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...
(IASD), he is currently a senior editor of the APA journal ''Dreaming: The Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams''. He co-wrote the 2006 film '' The Zodiac'', which had a limited theatrical release. His surname at birth was spelled "Bulkley", and it appears this way on this film. He is a descendant of
Peter Bulkley Peter Bulkley (31 January 1583 – 9 March 1659, last name also spelled Bulkeley) was an influential early Puritan minister who left England for greater religious freedom in the American colony of Massachusetts. He was a founder of Concord, and w ...
, whose name also carries these two variant spellings. Bulkeley currently lives in Portland, Oregon.


Theories and stances

Bulkeley has compared dreams to a kind of 'play', in which different behaviours and strategies can be rehearsed. Nightmares, for example, may be warnings that a negative occurrence is possible, and we should be prepared for it.


Publications


Books

* ''The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Meanings of Dreams in Modern Western Culture'' (SUNY Press, 1994). * ''Spiritual Dreaming: A Cross-Cultural and Historical Journey'' (Paulist Press, 1995). * ''Among All These Dreamers: Essays on Dreaming and Modern Society'' (Editor) (SUNY Press, 1996). * ''An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming'' (Praeger, 1997) * ''Dreamcatching'' (Co-authored with Alan Siegel) (Three Rivers Press, 1998). * ''Visions of the Night: Dreams, Religion, and Psychology'' (SUNY Press, 1999). * ''Transforming Dreams'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2000) * ''Dreams: A Reader on the Religious, Cultural, and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming'' (Editor) (Palgrave, 2001) * ''Dreams of Healing: Transforming Nightmares into Visions of Hope'' (Paulist Press, 2003) * ''The Wondering Brain: Thinking About Religion With and Beyond Cognitive Neuroscience'' (Routledge, 2005) * ''Dreaming Beyond Death'' (co-authored with Patricia Bulkley) (Beacon Press, 2005) * ''Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science'' (Editor) (Palgrave, 2005) * ''American Dreamers: What Dreams Tell Us about the Political Psychology of Conservatives, Liberals, and Everyone Else'' (Beacon Press, 2008) * ''Dreaming in the World’s Religions: A Comparative History'' (New York University Press, 2008) * ''Dreaming in Christianity and Islam: Culture, Conflict, and Creativity'' (co-edited with Kate Adams and Patricia M. Davis) (Rutgers University Press, 2009) * ''Dreaming in the Classroom: Practices, Methods, and Resources in Dream Education'' (co-authored with Phil King and Bernard Welt) (SUNY Press, 2011) * ''Teaching Jung'' (co-edited with Clodagh Weldon) (Oxford University Press, 2011) * ''Children’s Dreams'' (co-authored with Patricia Bulkley) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) * ''Lucid Dreaming'' (2 volumes, co-edited with Ryan Hurd) (ABC-Clio, 2014) * ''Big Dreams: The Science of Highly Memorable Dreaming'' (Oxford University Press, 2016) * ''Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition'' (Stanford University Press, 2018)


References


External links


Personal websiteSleep and Dream Database
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