4 papers in the library · 37 citations · publishing 2006-2026
March 5, 2026 G. William Domhoff
This chapter provides a detailed explanation for self-knowing (autonoetic) consciousness, based on the Multistate Hierarchical Model of Consciousness. This full statement of the theory makes it possible to explain more fully how autonoetic consciousness differs from dreaming, which is a form of noetic (fact-knowing) consciousness. The relationship between autonoetic consciousness and noetic...
March 5, 2026 G. William Domhoff
This chapter demonstrates exactly how well the adaptive inactivity theory of sleep explains several unusual features of human sleep, which were not fully known and understood before the publication in 2015 of a longitudinal study of sleep in three indigenous societies without electricity. These indigenous groups sleep on average only 5–7 hours a night, and they sleep longer in the winter than...
March 5, 2026 G. William Domhoff
This chapter is similar to Chapter 5 in that it provides the first synthesis of the various neurophysiological and neuroimaging findings concerning the nature of the arousal process that leads to the morning awakening. It uses the neuroimaging studies to show that very specific networks lead to the almost instantaneous return of consciousness, but people nonetheless feel groggy and often are...
Imagination Cognition and Personality March 1, 2006 G. William Domhoff, Katrin Meyer-Gomes, Michael Schredl 37 citations
Past research shows there are more similarities than differences in the dream content of college students in several industrialized democracies. This study uses new results from dreams collected in Germany to support this past finding and suggest that dreams are more similar than different because they dramatize people's conceptions and concerns in relation to personal issues, which probably do...