Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., is a psychologist of religion focusing on dreams and dreaming.  He is director of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a Senior Editor of the APA journal Dreaming, and a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.  He earned a B.A. at Stanford University, an M.T.S. at Harvard Divinity School, and a doctorate at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is author and editor of several books, including The Wilderness of Dreams (SUNY Press, 1994), Dreaming Beyond Death (Beacon, 2006), American Dreamers (Beacon, 2008), Dreaming in the World’s Religions (New York University Press, 2008), Lucid Dreaming (ABC-Clio, 2014), and Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2016).  He lives in Portland, Oregon.