arXiv Preprint Archive
October 14, 2026
Victor Oswald, David Zarka, Riku Johannes Ihalainen et al.
preprint
How mental training reshapes the temporal architecture of large-scale brain dynamics and how these mechanisms differ between healthy and clinically vulnerable populations remains poorly understood. Time-averaged neural measures collapse the multi-scale nature of brain activity, obscuring the dynamic processes through which behavioural interventions reorganise hierarchical brain function. Here,...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 14, 2026
Riku Ihalainen, Victor Oswald, Gulshan Kumar et al.
preprint
Awakening is reported across contemplative traditions yet remains poorly defined in science, where it is often conflated with transient states induced by meditation or psychedelics, obscuring its significance for theories of consciousness and cognitive architecture. We treat awakening as a functional construct capturing convergence across Hindu and Buddhist sources, phenomenological and...
Annals of Neurosciences
March 1, 2026
Km Megha, Ankita Mishra, Raksha Sharma et al.
Meditation is known to modulate neural activity and enhance cognitive and emotional well-being. While previous studies have largely reported increases in alpha and theta activity, the neurophysiological effects of structured sound-based meditation practices remain underexplored. This study investigated the neurophysiological and subjective effects of rhythmic sound meditation (RSM) compared to...
Consciousness and Cognition
July 1, 2025
Gulshan Kumar, Safoora Naaz, Nahida Jabin et al.
Studies on the electrophysiological and phenomenological aspects of dream experiences provide insight on consciousness during sleep. Whole night polysomnography (PSG) studies were conducted among 29 healthy young participants with high dream recall abilities. Dreams reports were collected during the second night by multiple awakening protocol. On the third night, participants were presented...
University Library Heidelberg
April 9, 2018
Gulshan Kumar, Arun Sasidharan, Bindu M Kutty
9 citations
Lucid dreaming is a unique state between dreaming sleep and waking, wherein one is aware of being in dream and able to control dream contents. The present study was aimed as a proof-of-concept to a previously proposed idea that combining a cognitive training protocol with auditory cue during sleep could cause effective lucid dreaming induction even among healthy participants who had no history...