Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
October 1, 2026
A. Purcell, Daniel L. Morris, Jahred Rosa-Sullivan et al.
Objective: Over the past 60 years, contemplative practices have been shown to alleviate certain mental health symptoms. Humans spend approximately one third of their lives asleep, yet there is limited scientific investigation of the benefit of performing contemplative exercises during sleep. Tibetan Buddhist Dream Yoga (TBDY) is a contemplative practice where dreamers perform mental exercises...
Research Square
February 3, 2026
Gabriela Torres-Platas, Daniel J Morris, Karen R Konkoly et al.
preprint
Abstract To reduce maladaptive behaviors, cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based interventions can be engaged during wakefulness. Such strategies may also be engaged during sleep, providing a unique and powerful pathway to positive behavioral change. Here we describe an initial scientific investigation of Dream Yoga, a type of contemplative practice that includes a set of prescribed tasks...
Open Mind
May 28, 2024
Susana G. Torres‐platas, Daniel J Morris, Michael R. Sheehy et al.
preprint
AIMS: (1) Test whether dreaming holds a key to understanding assumptions that tacitly constrain our waking lives. (2) Quantify effects of Dream-Yoga-inspired procedures for exploring and surmounting constraints of the perception box. BACKGROUND: People spend a third of their lives asleep, usually oblivious to the opportunities for enhanced well-being that sleep offers. Over centuries,...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
February 20, 2024
Michael R. Sheehy
A classic set of eight similes of illusion (sgyu ma’i dpe brgyad) are employed recurrently throughout Indian and Tibetan Buddhist literature to illustrate the operations of cognition, its correlative perceptions, and experiences that emerge. To illustrate a Buddhist psychology of metaphor, the fourteenth century Tibetan scholar and synthesizer of the Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) or Great Perfection...
Religions
June 21, 2022
Marc-Henri Deroche, Michael R. Sheehy
5 citations
For Indian Buddhists and their Tibetan successors, the faculty of “mindfulness” (Skt. smṛti, Tib. dran pa) has been interpreted as the foundation of the threefold development of wisdom (study, reflection, cultivation). Such a model was, in Tibet, the hallmark of the gradual approach to awakening, whereas in the simultaneous approach, the state beyond ordinary mindfulness was emphasized. The...
Michael R. Sheehy
Examination of Tibetan Buddhist contemplative and psychological understandings of the operations of ordinary awareness (rnam shes) in comparison with pristine awareness (ye shes), based on a seminal text by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339).