It’s All About Sex! Or Is It? Reflections on Sexuality and Dreaming
It is time to focus on the “real” content of all (or most) dreams. It is time to focus on sexuality in dreams. Some readers …
Pathways to Sleep: IV Snoozing with a Little Help from Our Friends (Sleep Aids)
We have arrived at the final set of pathways to high quality sleep. There is both good and bad news regarding this fourth se…
I Dreamed I Was Flying: A Developmental Representation of Competence
I wish to introduce a quite different interpretation regarding the presence of flight in the dreams of young people and the …
Snuggling In: What Makes Us Comfortable When We Sleep?
What makes us feel comfortable when we snuggle in for a good night of sleep? …
Lay Me Down to Sleep: Designing the Environment for High Quality Rest
I report on the preferences noted by our Pathways to Sleep survey respondents to many elements of the sleep environment that…
Dreamer Beware: The Insightful Dreams of Sarah, Dan and Katherine
Potentially one of the most important (adaptive) but quite controversial functions of a dream is to alert the dreamer to som…
How to Snooze: Preparing for Sleep
Many of the “recipes” for successful sleep focus on broad issues—pathways to which we have attended in previous essay. These…
Robert, Elizabeth and a Girl on the Beach: Dreams, Hollywood and Mythmaking
Dreams have included content from movies and television, much has been the case with other art forms. However, movies and te…
The Pelican: Structure, Dynamics, Function and Meaning of a Nightmarish Dream
A dream laboratory has just been established at the University of Oregon by Drs. Louis Breger and Les Davidson (Breger, Hunt…
Dorveille and Breath: Two Sleep-Enhancing Strategies
Two books have recently been published that speak to the challenge of achieving a good night of sleep. One of the books is a…