Background. The evidence base that has been established for hearing persons has demonstrated that experiences of hallucinations and delusions are shaped by the individual’s context and the culture of their local community (e.g., Kent & Wahass, 1996; Stompe et al., 2006;Yamada, Barrio, Morrison, Sewell, & Jeste, 2006). The Deaf community has a distinct culture to the general British population,...
At the Royal National Theatre Platform Performance with Tom Stoppard on 6 February 2015, host Nicholas Hytner, then still director of the RNT, started the conversation by quoting from a letter Stoppard had sent Hytner in 2013. In the letter, Stoppard indicates that he wanted to combine writing about the banking crisis and the possibility of a person’s altruistic goodness in the context of...
Dreams can sometimes incorporate external sensory stimuli (e.g. sounds, smells and physical sensations) into their course and content, either directly or indirectly. This shows that the brain is still able to monitor, process, and perceive what is happening in the surrounding environment during sleep. This study aimed to examine stimulus incorporation in dreams using two auditory stimuli of...