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Digital Dream Analysis: A New Article on Word Search Methods
The latest issue of the journal Consciousness and Cognition has an article of mine titled “Digital dream analysis: A revised method,” that’s the fruition of several years of data-driven work. It lays...
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How to Interpret Snake Dreams
I’m amazed at how many people have powerful dreams about snakes. Serpents are truly the most memorable creatures of the dream world. Their presence in a dream is almost always vivid, mysterious, and...
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The Interpretation of Snake Dreams: A Short Film
By far the most frequent question that leads people to this website is, how do I interpret my weird dream about a snake? I’ve written some general answers to that question, and when possible I’ve...
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The Art and Science of Dreaming
Why do we have dreams? Where do they come from? What, if anything, do they mean? These mysterious questions have puzzled humankind since the earliest days of history. The best answers, I suggest,...
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The Tactful Dream Interpreter
“Once a Caliph saw his teeth falling out in a dream. He called a dream interpreter and asked him about the meaning of his dream. The interpreter replied: ‘The entire family of my master will perish.’...
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Dystopian Dreaming
While sitting in the audience and taking notes during the recent IASD conference in Berkeley, I found myself marking several instances where something the presenter said triggered my dystopian...
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Penelope and Odysseus: The Perils of Dream Interpretation
I’d like to illustrate some basic principles of dream interpretation by telling a story. It’s a very old story, one you may have heard before, but I’d like to tell it again because even though it’s...
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Trouble on the Night Shift: Bad Dreams About Work
“Sleep, the gentlest of the gods, the spirit’s peace, whom care flies from: who soothes the body wearied with toil, and readies it for fresh labors.” That’s how the Roman poet Ovid described sleep in...
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Dreams and Politics 2020: Preparing for New Research
To prepare for a new study of dreams during the 2020 U.S. Presidential election campaign, I am doing a brief review of my previous work in this area, to remind myself of what I have learned so far and...
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How to Begin a Dream-Sharing Process
When someone is about to share a dream with me, either in a group setting or one-on-one, I always ask for two things. First, please tell the dream in the present tense, not the past tense, so the dream...
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