Sleep and Hypnosis: A Journal of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychopathology Volume 6, Number 1, Year 2004
Kelly Bulkeley Ph.D
In earlier writings I have explored the political dimensions of dreams in relation to Charlotte Beradt ’s study of dreams in Nazi Germany (1), U.S.Presidential elections(2),people ’s self- reports of political ideology (3),and the terrorist attack of September 11 (4).The basic argument I have been building in these texts is that dreams have directly meaningful connections to the political environments in which the dreamers live.I am seeking to refute the notion (advocated by Sigmund Freud and Calvin Hall (5)among others)that dreaming is exclusively concerned with the private world of the individual and does not have anything meaningful to say about the broader social world.