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Description for Big Dreams
Big Dreams is the first full-scale cognitive scientific analysis of highly memorable dreams, with an original theory about their formation, function, and meaning. The book draws on evidence from religious studies, psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience to explore how big dreams are a wellspring of religious experience. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM3; JMTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Big dreams are rare but highly memorable dream experiences that make a strong and lasting impact on the dreamer's waking awareness. Such dreams can include vivid imagery, intense emotions, fantastic characters, bizarre elements of form and content, and an uncanny sense of being connected to forces beyond one's ordinary dreaming mind. These types of dreams have played significant roles in religious and cultural history, and even today people still experience them and find them intriguing and thought-provoking. Because of their infrequent occurrence and fantastical tendencies, however, big dreams have rarely been studied in light of modern science. While we know ... Read more
Big dreams are rare but highly memorable dream experiences that make a strong and lasting impact on the dreamer's waking awareness. Such dreams can include vivid imagery, intense emotions, fantastic characters, bizarre elements of form and content, and an uncanny sense of being connected to forces beyond one's ordinary dreaming mind. These types of dreams have played significant roles in religious and cultural history, and even today people still experience them and find them intriguing and thought-provoking. Because of their infrequent occurrence and fantastical tendencies, however, big dreams have rarely been studied in light of modern science. While we know ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199351534
SKU
V9780199351534
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Ref
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About Kelly Bulkeley
Kelly Bulkeley is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
Reviews for Big Dreams
this book offers so many other insights into psychology, neurology and dream content analysis, it is well worth your money.
Drs. Susanne van Doorn, Mindfunda
Drs. Susanne van Doorn, Mindfunda