Visions of the Night

Kelly Bulkeley is Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department, Santa Clara University. A former president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, he has published extensively, and is the editor of Among All These Dreamers: Essays on Dreams and Modern Society and the author of The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Meanings of Dreams in Modern Western Culture, also published by SUNY Press.

"I am most intrigued by Bulkeley's notion of dreams as root metaphors. Such a notion fits in well with an existential-phenomenological approach to dream interpretation, and also lends itself to understanding dreams in the context of spirituality. I think this text matches the quality of Bulkeley's 1994 book (The Wilderness of Dreams), which I regard as a potential 'classic' in dream theory." — Hendrika Vande Kemp, Fuller Theological Seminary"This book, both a personal and scholastic journey, is well written, tightly argued, and evocative of the deeper regions of the human heart and mind. It covers a wide spectrum of disciplines, from the literary to the religious to the scholarly/historical, and has academic depth as well as an easy reading style. I very much respect Bulkeley's scope of knowledge and breadth of integration." — Edward Bruce Bynum, author of Families and the Interpretation of Dreams

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Varieties of Religious Dream Experience 1. Root Metaphor Dreams 2. Dreaming and Conversion 3. Where Do Dreams Come From? 4. Sharing Dreams in Community Settings 5. Dreams and Environmental Ethics 6. Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society: A Winnicottian Reading of Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of Dreams 7. Dreaming Is Play: A Response to Freud 8. Gods, REMS, and What Neurology Has to Say about the Religious Meanings of Dreams 9. The Evil Dreams of Gilgamesh: Interpreting Dreams in Mythological Texts 10. Wisdom's Refuge in the Night: Dreams in The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Richard III 11. Dreamily Deconstructing the Dream Factory: The Wizard of Oz and A Nightmare on Elm Street 12. Dreams within Films, Films within Dreams 13. Dreaming in Russia, August 1991 Postscript on Dreams, Religion, and Psychological Studies Bibliographical Essays Freud and PsychoanalysisJung and Analytic PsychologyAlternative Clinical Theories about DreamsSleep Laboratory Research on REM Sleep and DreamingDreaming and CognitionContent AnalysisNightmaresChildren's DreamsGender and SexualityPopular PsychologyLucid DreamingParanormal DreamsCross-Cultural Studies of DreamingDreams, Psychology, and the HumanitiesDreams, Psychology, and ReligionKey Resources in the Study of Dreams Bibliography Index