Sleep-an essential pillar of health-has historically been considered not only a biological phenomenon but also based on experiences interpreted through spiritual, moral, existential, and cultural frameworks worldwide [1-5].Across societies, dreams, nightmares, sleep paralysis, and nocturnal visions have frequently been attributed to soul journeys, spirits, precognitions, moral conflict,...
Dream enactment behavior commonly occurs on occasion in normal children and adults. Disruptive and frequent dream enactment behavior may come to the attention of the clinician either as the primary reason for consultation or as a prominent characteristic of a patient with other sleep disorders. Questioning patients with chronic neurologic and psychiatric disorders may also reveal previously...
Out-of-body experiences are the phenomena of seeing the image of one's body from an external perspective. We report the case of a patient affected by psychophysiological insomnia who presents hallucinatory phenomenon, successfully treated with haloperidol.We hypothesize that these hallucinations during psychophysiological insomnia are expression of an alteration of specific neurocognitive...