| 01/23/21: |
Two new book chapters by Bill Domhoff are available in the Dream Library as PDFs: From Anna Abraham's The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination, Bill's chapter provides a brief overview of the latest version of the neurocognitive theory dreams, with a special emphasis on imagination. And from James F. Pagel's Parasomnia Dreaming, new ways to use neuroimaging to study dreaming and dream content in clinical settings — but most of these suggestions apply to research settings as well. |
| 05/07/20: |
We've got a new article published in Dreaming: From Adolescence to Young Adulthood in Two Dream Series: The Consistency and Continuity of Characters and Major Personal Interests [PDF]. |
| 12/23/19: |
Bill Domhoff's latest article, which provides an update of the neurocognitive theory of dreams and a further critique of alternative theories of dreams, is available as a PDF: "The Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams at Age 20." |
| 12/17/19: |
Looking for a quick summary of neurocognitive research on dreams? Download a 13-page PDF of Bill's poster session at the 2019 meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity 2019. (You can also download it in its original poster format.) |
| 12/15/19: |
Bill Domhoff's 2003 book with APA Press, The Scientific Study of Dreams, is now available as a PDF download. |
| 10/08/18: |
Two remarkable dream series from Marc Levy, a Vietnam vet, are available in book form on Amazon: Dreams, Vietnam and Other Dreams. Bill Domhoff wrote forewords to both books. |
| 09/30/18: |
Newly published paper: Are dreams social simulations? Or are they enactments of conceptions and personal concerns? |
| 02/01/18: |
Bill's new book, The Emergence of Dreaming, has hit the streets, and its online-only methodological appendix has been posted in the Dream Library. |
| 12/15/17: |
New paper: Invasion of the Concept Snatchers! |
| 09/29/17: |
Bill's keynote address to the 2017 IASD Conference, "Seven Surprising Discoveries That Changed My Thinking About Dreams," is available on YouTube and has been added to the Videos page. |
| 12/10/16: |
Bill's IASD presentation entitled "We Need Bigger and Better Samples of Dream Reports" has been posted in the Dream Library. |
| 06/20/16: |
A video entitled "Night Wars: The Nightmares of Vietnam Veterans" has been added to the Videos page. |
| 02/17/16: |
There are two new dream series on DreamBank.net that might be of interest to researchers. The first is from a Vietnam Veteran who still suffers from PTSD due to the fierce fighting he was involved in 45 years earlier. The second is the teenage and college dreams of "Jasmine," a woman who has an unusual form of blindness. |
| 11/06/15: |
BrainDecoder.com tells the story of "Ed," a widower whose dreams of his late wife are featured in our DreamBank and in a new article by Bill Domhoff. |
| 11/05/15: |
Atlas Obscura features a whimsical commentary on the DreamBank by a science writer. |
| 06/02/15: |
An article from Consciousness and Cognition about dreaming and the brain's default network by Bill Domhoff and UBC's Kieran Fox has been posted in the Dream Library. |
| 06/01/15: |
Two statistical articles by Domhoff & Schneider have been posted in the Library: one about correcting for multiple comparisons and one about assessing autocorrelation in dream series. |
| 09/13/14: |
A Videos page has been added; there are three lectures by Bill Domhoff, and a 2014 interview about his neurocognitive theory of dreams. |
| 12/14/13: |
This page has been reorganized and updated a bit. |
| 10/10/13: |
Bill Domhoff is a co-author of "Dreaming as mind wandering: Evidence from functional neuroimaging and first-person content reports" in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (download PDF). |
| 05/20/12: |
A paper has been posted (Domhoff, 2011): The neural substrate for dreaming: Is it a subsystem of the default network?. The paper updates Domhoff's neurocognitive theory of dreams. |
| 09/15/10: |
Read Bill Domhoff's working paper entitled The Case for a Cognitive Theory of Dreams. |
| 12/18/08: |
Bill Domhoff and Adam Schneider have a paper in Consciousness and Cognition, describing the many findings that have been developed using the thousands of dreams and search engine available on DreamBank.net. |
| 12/18/08: |
We've also published another paper, in the same issue of Consciousness and Cognition, showing that activation-synthesis theorists J. Allan Hobson and David Kahn are wrong when they say based on a study with a small sample size and a weak methodology that individual differences are not very salient in dreams. Our review of the literature and an analysis of necessary sample sizes for detecting differences shows otherwise. |
| 04/10/08: |
Bill's latest analysis of findings on the realistic nature of dreams, challenging the stereotype that everything about them is bizarre, appeared as a chapter in a recent book entitled The New Science of Dreaming; it's also available in the Library. |
| 04/09/08: |
On April 9, 2008, Bill Domhoff gave a lecture entitled "The Awesome Lawfulness of Your Nightly Dreams" at UC Santa Cruz's Music Recital Hall; the entire lecture is now available on YouTube, or on DVD via UC-TV. |
| 11/27/07: |
An excellent article in the Washington Post contains two quotes from Bill's 2003 book, on the topic of the apparent purposelessness of dreams. |
| 07/03/07: |
Bill Domhoff is quoted extensively in an article about "Big Dreams" in the Science section of the July 3 New York Times. The dream series mentioned in the article, "Ed," is available in the DreamBank, and you can also read the paper Bill wrote about the series. |
| 05/19/07: |
Bill Domhoff has a paper out on how journalists sometimes go a little wrong in their coverage of dream research; you can read it in our on-line Library. |
| 12/15/06: |
Posted in the Library: Dreams as the expression of conceptions and concerns: A comparison of German and American college students. |
| 12/01/06: |
"Barb Sanders" is our most detailed case study; a long article outlining some of the most interesting results of our studies about her is now available in the Findings section. |
| 02/06/06: |
A review of Domhoff's 2003 book appears in the Spring '06 issue of the American Journal of Psychology. |
| 01/12/06: |
There are two new articles in the Library: "The content of dreams: Methodologic and theoretical implications" and "Refocusing the neurocognitive approach to dreams: A critique of the Hobson versus Solms debate." |
| 08/12/04: |
An article about Bill Domhoff and a cognitive framework for dream theory appeared in the August issue of the APS Observer. |
| 08/02/04: |
Our DreamBank is prominently featured in the cover story of the August 9 issue of Newsweek. Unfortunately, the article is not scientifically sound and merely reinforces existing stereotypes. |
| 06/10/04: |
An article in The Guardian, "Field of Dreams," features several quotes from Bill about cognitive theory. |
| 10/07/03: |
The full text of Bill Domhoff's 1996 book, Finding Meaning in Dreams, is now available in the Dream Library. |
| 04/07/03: |
A skeptical review (by Bill) of Allan Hobson's book on "The Science of Sleep" appears in the March 28 issue of Science. A link to the article is available in the Dream Library. |
| 03/27/03: |
Bill's updated critique of "Senoi Dream Theory" is now available in the Dream Library. |
| 01/01/03: |
Domhoff's book with APA Press, The Scientific Study of Dreams, is now available from Amazon.com. A sample chapter, "Toward a Neurocognitive Model of Dreams," is available in our site. |
| 11/02/02: |
A June 2002 interview with Charity Nebbe of Michigan Public Radio is now available on-line! [2.7MB .mp3 file] |
| 02/22/02: |
An interview with Bill Domhoff appears in the March 2002 issue of Discover magazine. The article is also available on-line. |
| 11/17/01: |
We've added Domhoff's 2001 paper entitled "A New Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams" to the Dream Library. |
| 09/18/00: |
The Dream Library is now on-line. The Library includes reprints of many scientific articles that are of use to dream researchers. |
