References, links, recommended reading
Contents
- DreamBank
(http://www.dreamresearch.net/)
An invaluable collection of dreams with search engine - maintained by Schneider and Domhoff.
- The Quantitative Study of Dreams, Schneider, A. and Domhoff, G. W.,
(http://www.dreamresearch.net/)
A good site for info on content analysis.
- A Blog Around The Clock: Sleep, Bora Zivkovic.
(http://scienceblogs.com/clock/chronobiology/sleep/)
A good science blog's sleep section.
- University of Helsinki RSS feeds for sleep and dreaming.
(http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator/?my=b11a00983)
Latest web publications on sleep and dreaming.
- PubMed links sleep and dreaming.
(http://www.pubmed.gov)
- IASD Discussion Boards
(http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/)
International Association for the Study of Dreams' bulletin board for the discussion of dreams.
- Lab NIC, Sophie Schwartz.
(http://labnic.unige.ch/nic/htms/schwartz.html)
What neuroimaging and linguistic analysis might be able to tell us about dreaming.
- Center for Sleep Research, Siegel Lab (UCLA)
(http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/)
Several good articles on sleep.
- Kelly Bulkeley's Home page
(http://www.kellybulkeley.com/)
Home page of dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley.
- Journal of Sleep Research
(http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showIssues&code=jsr)
Journal of Sleep Research.
- alt.dreams, USENET dreams newsgroup.
- Sleep, Dreams And Wakefulness, Michel Jouvet.
(http://sommeil.univ-lyon1.fr/index_e.html) No longer updated.
- Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaft an der Universität Heidelberg, Daniel Erlacher.
(http://daniel.erlacher.de/index.php/Hauptseite)
A "sports medicine" site but with several good articles about dreaming.
- Récits de rêves.
(http://www.reves.ca/index.php)
Searchable database of dreams in French literature, art and science.
- Ernest Hartmann.
(http://web.me.com/ernesthartmann/ernest_hartmann_md/home.html)
Papers by Ernest Hartmann M.D.
- Sophie Schwartz and Pierre Maquet, Sleep Imaging and the neuropsychological assessment of dreams.
(http://labnic.unige.ch/nic/papers/SS_TICS2002.pdf)
Describes how brain activation/inactivation might account for some of the typical characteristics of dreams.
- Pierre Maquet,
Functional neuroimaging of normal human sleep by positron emission tomography.
(http://www.jsmf.org/meetings/2003/nov/MaquetJSR2000.pdf)
A study of patterns of brain activity during sleep.
- A. R. Braun et al, Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-wake cycle: An H215O PET study.
(http://brain.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/120/7/1173.pdf)
Another study of patterns of brain activity during sleep.
- Domhoff, G. W., Finding Meaning in Dreams: a Quantitative Approach.
(http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/fmid.html)
Domhoff's complete book on content analysis.
- Mark Solms, Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms.
(http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.solms.html)
Presents evidence that REM is neither necessary nor sufficient for dreaming.
- Antti Revonsuo, The Reinterpretation of Dreams: An evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming.
(http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.revonsuo.html)
Revonsuo's theory that dreams' function is the rehearsal of instinctual behaviors.
- Hobson, J. Allen, Pace-Schott, E. and Stickgold, R.,
Dreaming and the Brain: Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Conscious States.
(http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.hobson.html)
A recent statement of Hobson's theories of dreaming.
- Tore Nielsen,
Mentation in REM and NREM Sleep: A review and possible reconciliation of two models.
(http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.nielsen.html)
Nielsen introduces the idea of "covert" REM sleep.
- Robert Vertes and K. Eastman,
The Case Against Memory Consolidation In REM Sleep.
(http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.vertes.html)
A critical review of the idea that memories are formed during REM sleep.
- J. M. Siegel,
The evolution of REM sleep.
(http://www.semel.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/3500/rem_evolution.htm)
A review REM sleep in other animals.
- Tore A. Nielsen,
Describing And Modeling Hypnagogic Imagery Using A Systematic Self-Observation Procedure.
(Can be found at: http://www.jtkresearch.com/DreamLab/b_abt_tnpub.asp?lang=e)
A study of hypnagogic images and a theory of how they are formed.
- Stephen LaBerge, Lucid Dreaming: Psychophysiological Studies of Consciousness during REM Sleep.
(http://www.lucidity.com/SleepAndCognition.html)
The famous signaling experiments demonstrating that lucid dreams occur during REM sleep.
- Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams.
(http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm)
The complete work on-line.
- Bert States, Dream Bizarreness And Inner Thought.
(http://www.asdreams.org/journal/articles/10-4_states.htm)
Bizarre...compared to what? Maybe dreams aren't so bizarre after all.
- George Lakoff, How Metaphor Structures Dreams: The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor Applied to Dream Analysis.
(http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~market/semiotic/lkof_drm.html)
Argues that dreams (like waking thought) express conceptual metaphors.
- Olaf Blanke, Theodor Landis, Laurent Spinelli, and Margitta Seeck, Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin.
(http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/127/2/243)
The neurological basis for OBE and autoscopy.
- Thomas Metzinger, Out-of-Body Experiences as the Origin of the Concept of a "Soul".
(http://www.mindmatter.de/mmpdf/metzinger.pdf)
The development of the notion of the soul and the proto-concept of mind tied to the OBE experience.
- V. S. Ramachandran, Consciousness and body image: lessons from phantom limbs, Capgras syndrome and pain asymbolia
(http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno/psc129/handouts/rama3.pdf)
Review of some neurological syndromes and what they might tell us about consciousness.
- D. H. ffytche and R. J. Howard, The perceptual consequences of visual loss: 'positive' pathologies of vision.
(http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/122/7/1247.pdf)
Nice review of syndromes which lead to visual hallucinations.
- C. Braun, M. Dumont, J. Duval, I. Hamel-Hébert, L. Godbout. Brain modules of hallucination: an analysis of multiple patients with brain lesions
(http://www.cma.ca/multimedia/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/jpn/vol-28/issue-6/pdf/pg432.pdf)
Another review of syndromes which lead to visual hallucinations.
- Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, Conceptual Integration Networks.
(http://markturner.org/cin.web/cin.html)
A introduction to conceptual blends.
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Norman Malcolm,
Dreaming
A philosophical arguement that dreams can't be mental experiences that occur during sleep.
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Gordon Globus,
Dream Life, Wake Life: The Human Condition Through Dreams
The creativity of dreaming sheds light on waking consciousness.
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A. Moffitt, M. Kramer, & R. Hoffman (Eds.),
The Function of Dreaming
A collection of papers on the possible functions of dreaming.
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Kelly Bulkeley (ed),
Dreams: A Reader on Religious, Cultural, and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming
A collection of papers on dreams from many perspectives.
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Janice Brooks and Jay Vogelsong,
The Conscious Exploration of Dreaming
An excellent first-hand account of lucid dreaming which challenges many theories of dreaming.
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G. William Domhoff,
The Scientific Study of Dreams: Neural Networks, Cognitive Development, and Content Analysis
A neurocognitive approach to dreams.
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Bert O. States,
Dreaming and Storytelling
A unique perspective on dreaming. I suspect that the originality of the author stems from his not being an "expert" on dreams.
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Owen Flanagan,
Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind
Argues that dreams serve no function, but can none the less be meaningful.
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David Foulkes,
Children's Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness
Review of Foulkes' study of children's dreams.
- Calvin Hall and Vernon Nordby,
The Individual and His Dreams
By a pioneer in content analysis and thematic analysis of dreams. Unfortunately, out of print.
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Ernest Hartmann,
Dreams and Nightmares: The Origin and Meaning of Dreams
Argues that dreams' function is to integrate new experiences, especially in an emotional context.
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Harry Hunt,
The Multiplicity of Dreams
Argues that most approaches to the understanding of dreams are too narrowly focused.
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Michel Jouvet,
The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming
A collection of articles by a pioneer in dream research.
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J. Allen Hobson,
The Dreaming Brain
The "activation/synthesis" model of dreams. A little out of date, but see next reference for Hobson's revised "AIM" model.
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Edward F. Pace-Schott (ed)
Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations
Very up-to-date debate on the production and functions of dreaming.
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Ramachandran, V. S., Blakeslee, Sandra
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Only a few comments about dreaming but good descriptions of some very interesting neurological syndromes.
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Inge Strauch and Barbara Meier,
In Search of Dreams: Results of Experimental Dream Research
A lot of interesting results in dream research.
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Catherine Corman (ed),
Joseph Cornell's Dreams
A selection of the artist's dreams.
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Naguib Mahfouz,
The Dreams
104 dreams from the Egyptian author.
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William S. Burroughs,
My Education: A Book of Dreams
Burroughs' dream diary.
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Jack Kerouac,
Book of Dreams
Another beat generation dream diary.
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Marguerite Yourcenar,
Dreams and Destinies
French author's dream diary.
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Graham Greene,
A World of My Own
Selections from the author's dream diary.
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Calvin Hall,
Dreams, life, and literature: A study of Franz Kafka
Hall's study of Franz Kafka's dreams. The appendix contains all of Kafka's published dreams.
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Stephen Brook (ed),
The Oxford Book of Dreams
A collection of dreams from many sources.
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Nicholas Royle (ed),
The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers' Dreams
Selected dreams from selected writers.
- Slow Wave.
(http://www.slowwave.com/)
Jesse Reklaw turns submitted dreams into cartoons.
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Hyperdictionary.
(http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dream)
Yet another dream dictionary - but very well done. (Also computer and medical dictionaries and a thesaurus.)
- Conceptual Metaphor Home Page.
(http://cogsci.berkeley.edu/lakoff/)
A list of conceptual metaphors.
- Dmitry Davidov et al, Fully Unsupervised Discovery of Concept-Specific Relationships by Web Mining.
(http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~arir/concept_specific_relships.pdf)
Using word co-occurrence to discover word classes and relationships.
- Richard Schweickert, Properties of the Organization of Memory for People:Evidence from Dream Reports.
(http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~schweick/Properties.doc)
Using the co-occurrence of characters in dreams to generate the dreamer's social network.
- Nadeau et al, Automatic Dream Sentiment Analysis.
(http://cogprints.org/5030/01/NRC-48725.pdf)
A comparison of techniques used to determine the emotional content of dreams.
- Dhillon and Modha, Concept Decompositions for Large Sparse Text Data using Clustering.
(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/inderjit/public_papers/concept_mlj.pdf)
A technical description of the k-means algorithm used in the AutoCluster report.
- M. F. Porter,
An algorithm for suffix stripping.
(http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~luliu/nlp/porter/porter.txt)
Porter's paper describing his stemming algorithm.
- Clara Yu et al, Patterns in Unstructured Data: Discovery, Aggregation, and Visualization.
(http://www.seobook.com/lsi/cover_page.htm)
A clear explanation of latent semantic indexing - a method used in information retrieval.
- Ted Dunning, Accurate Methods for the Statistics of Surprise and Coincidence.
(http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/papers/tedstats.pdf)
Chi square versus log-likelihood statistic for word significance in different corpora.
- Rayson and Garside, Comparing Corpora using Frequency Profiling.
(http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/publications/rg_acl2000.pdf)
Using log-likelihood of semantic categories to find the key words in a set of documents.
- Reginald Ferber, Using Co-occurrence Data for Query Expansion: Wrong Paradigm or Wrong Formulas?
(http://information-retrieval.de/ferber/homepage/pdf-ps/using-cooc.pdf)
Some ideas about using term co-occcurrence for query expansion.
- Ana Fred and Anil K. Jain, Evidence Accumulation Clustering based on the k-means Algorithm.
(http://www.cse.msu.edu/prip/Files/AFred_AJain_SSPR2002.pdf)
Using results from multiple runs of k-means to detect patterns.
- M.Koppel, S. Argamon and A. Shimoni, Automatically categorizing written texts by author gender.
(http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-llc-final.pdf)
Predicting the gender of an author from non-content words in text.
- Schwartz, S., What dreaming can reaveal about cognitive and brain functions during sleep: A lexico-statistical analysis of dream reports.
(http://labnic.unige.ch/nic/papers/SS_PB2004.pdf)
Shows the relevance of these techniques to the study of dreams.
- Dominic Widdows, Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval.
(http://infomap.stanford.edu/papers/negation-ir.pdf)
Vector negation removes "unwanted meanings" from document queries instead of just unwanted terms.
- Grady Ward, The Moby Project Page.
(http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/)
A collection of very useful word lists.
- Ramos, V. and Merelo, J., Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning.
(http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0403/0403001.pdf)
The way ants clean up their dead suggest a method for document clustering.
- PageRank
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank)
Wikipedia article on the Google pagerank algorithm.
- James W. Pennebaker Home Page
(http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/Home2000/JWPhome.htm)
Word usage and age, sex and personality.
- Moshe Koppel's Home Page
(http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/)
Good stuff on text categorization and related subjects.
- IIT Laboratory of Linguistic Cognition
(http://lingcog.iit.edu/welcome.xml)
More good stuff on text categorization and related subjects.
- The General Inquirer
(http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~inquirer/)
Another computer-assisted approach for content analyses of textual data.
- Weka
(http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/)
Weka Machine Learning Project.
- CiteSeer
(http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/)
Computer and Information Science Papers search engine. Not just text mining papers.
- Latent Semantic Indexing Web Site.
(http://www.cs.utk.edu/~lsi/)
Latent Semantic Indexing Web Site.
- Content and non-content in laboratory versus home collected dreams
(http:http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/HomeLab.html)
A comparison of home versus laboratory collected dreams show differences in a number of features.
- Using k-means for the identification of themes in dreams
(http:http://kitchen-sync.com/kmeans/kmeans.html)
A description of the k-means algorithm and how it can be used to find themes in a set of dreams.
- Testing theories of dreaming
(http:http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/testingtod.html)
A few ideas about testing theories of dreaming; Freudian censorship, Jungian archetypes and compensation, Hobson and others.
- Testing recall and precision
(http:http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/recallandprecision.html)
Testing recall and precision in cluster searches. How to refine a cluster search.
- Symbol and Source
(http:http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/symbolandsource.html)
Do dreams contain symbolic content? If they do, does this mean they are messages?
- Typical Themes
(http:http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/typicalthemes.html)
Are there universal themes in dreams? If so, why?
- Misc. Results
(http:http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/someresults.html)
Some quick notes on dreams without characters, the body in dreams, day of week and dream recall.
- Art
Some dream-inspired artwork.
- Poems
A few Oulipo-ish techniques applied to dream accounts and other texts.
Bag O' Regex
(http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/BOR.html)