Dreams and Visions in the Anglo-Saxon Conversion to Christianity.

Davis, Patricia M.

doi:10.1037/1053-0797.15.2.75

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“…The prominence of dreaming in the world's religions is well documented throughout history and across all cultures (Adams, 2003; Davis, 2005; Hermansen, 1997; Irwin, 1994; Jedrej & Shaw, 1992; Lohmann, 2003; Miller, 1994; O'Flaherty, 1984; Ong, 1985; Oppenheim, 1956; Shulman & Stroumsa, 1999; Szpakowska, 2003; Tedlock, 1987; Von Grunebaum & Callois, 1966; Wayman, 1967; Young, 1999). Surprisingly, however, Western scholars who focus on the study of religious mysticism have generally paid little or no attention to dream research.…”

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Mystical dreaming: Patterns in form, content, and meaning.

Bulkeley¹

2009

Dreaming

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This article enriches the psychological understanding of religious mysticism by exploring patterns of form, content, and meaning in self-described mystical dreams, drawing on extensive sleep and dream interviews conducted with 100 contemporary Americans. Four major hypotheses regarding mystical experience are tested: mysticism as psychopathological, as culturally constructed, as a mode of pure consciousness, and as characterized by four Jamesian "marks" (ineffability, noesis, transience, passivity). The data from this study indicate that mystical dreams are experienced by around half the population and by women more than men, and their prototypical form involves good fortunes, friendly interactions, and unusual or nonhuman characters. These findings provide only limited validation for the psychopathology and pure consciousness hypotheses and somewhat more support for the Jamesian and cultural construction approaches. Taken together, the results suggest that psychological efforts to understand religious mysticism will remain incomplete without systematic reference to contemporary dream research.

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Mystical dreaming: Patterns in form, content, and meaning.

Bulkeley¹

2009

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“…There is a long history of pregnancy-related dreams that can be found in the literature, starting with conceptions dreams, for example, related to the birth of saints [5] and announcing dreams predicting characteristics of the future baby like sex [6]. Perry, DiPietro [7] reported that all 8 women who based their prediction of the baby’s sex on dreams were correct but Maybruck [6] didn’t find above-chance predictions.…”

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Nightmare frequency in last trimester of pregnancy

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BackgroundPregnancy-related dreams are often found in pregnant women but also the number of negatively toned dreams seems to be increased in this challenging phase of a woman’s life.MethodsNightmare frequency and subjectively experienced stress was elicited via questionnaires. The mothers-to-be were approached during their application visit about 4–8 weeks prior to delivery in three obstetric hospitals. The present analysis included 406 women aged 16–40 years in the last trimester of their pregnancy. Women with severe somatic illnesses and/or psychiatric disorders were excluded. The representative sample included 496 women (age range: 14–93 years.).ResultsThe findings clearly indicate that pregnant women report nightmares more often compared to a representative sample and that nightmare frequency is closely related to subjectively experienced stress during daytime. Moreover, baby-related dreams were correlated with nightmare frequency but not with day-time stress.ConclusionsFuture studies should investigate the prevalence of nightmare disorders in pregnancy and study whether brief interventions like Imagery Rehearsal Therapy are beneficial for pregnant women suffering from nightmares.

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The Religious Content of Dreams: A New Scientific Foundation

Bulkeley

2008

Pastoral Psychol

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Dream content is meaningfully related to waking life religiosity, so much so that reading a person's dream reports "blindly," without any other personal information or associations from the dreamer, can reveal with surprising accuracy his or her basic waking attitude toward religion and spirituality. Two long-term dream journals are analyzed in this manner, and the results demonstrate that dream content is an accurate reflection of a person's religious beliefs, practices, and experiences. The significance of this for pastoral psychologists lies not in specific new techniques of dream interpretation but more fundamentally in supporting the practice of paying attention to dreams in the first place. The goal of the article is to build a bridge between pastoral psychological interest in dreams and the latest findings in the scientific study of dreaming. Contrary to the assumption that religion and science inevitably conflict with each other, dreaming offers an area of potential religion-science convergence.

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Dreams and Visions in the Anglo-Saxon Conversion to Christianity.

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Mystical dreaming: Patterns in form, content, and meaning.

Mystical dreaming: Patterns in form, content, and meaning.

Nightmare frequency in last trimester of pregnancy

The Religious Content of Dreams: A New Scientific Foundation

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