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Perceptual and Motor Skills June 1, 1984 Zack Zdenek Cernovsky
Scores of 46 part-time college students (mean age 25.8 yr., SD = 5.7, 21 women, 24 men) on a 16-item inventory measure of attitudes toward dreams were only weakly related to the students' own estimates of their dream recall frequency in the last 6 mo. ( r = .31), and unrelated to a similar estimate of nightmare recall frequency.
Perceptual and Motor Skills April 1, 1984 Harry T. Hunt
Traditional approaches to the psychology of religious-mystical and altered-state experience have divided between more psychoanalytic and psychiatric views that associate such experience with “schizophrenia,” “regression,” and “primitivity” and the more intuitive Jungian and transpersonal-humanistic assertions of a “higher” path of development (“self-actualization”). By considering the full...
Perceptual and Motor Skills February 1, 1984 Michael A. Persinger
Transient, focal, epileptic-like electrical changes in the temporal lobe, without convulsions, have been hypothesized to be primary correlates of religious experiences. Given these properties, direct measurement of these phenomena within the laboratory should be rare. However, two illustrated instances have been recorded. The first case involved the occurrence of a delta-wave-dominant...
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1983 Michael A. Persinger 298 citations
Mystical and religious experiences are hypothesized to be evoked by transient, electrical microseizures within deep structures of the temporal lobe. Although experiential details are affected by context and reinforcement history, basic themes reflect the inclusion of different amygdaloid-hippocampal structures and adjacent cortices. Whereas the unusual electrical coherence allows access to...
Perceptual and Motor Skills August 1, 1983 Paul Tholey 73 citations
In research conducted over several years and with over 200 subjects we have developed various techniques for inducing and manipulating lucid dreams. Lucidity can be achieved in the following ways: by practice in developing a critical-reflective frame of mind concerning one's state of consciousness, by intention and autosuggestion, and by methods involving apparatus. It is also possible to...
Perceptual and Motor Skills June 1, 1983 Paul Tholey
This experiment illustrates that systematic observations in lucid dreams can be used to test hypotheses concerning the relation between dream content and eye movements. The observations were carried out by 5 students who had learned to induce lucid dreams by using the reflection technique developed by the author. Several hypotheses concerning the relation in question could be rejected.
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1982 Robert D. Ogilvie, Harry T. Hunt, Paul D. Tyson et al. 61 citations
10 good dream recallers spent 2 nights in the sleep lab during which they were awakened 4 times per night from REM sleep, twice during their highest alpha activity in REM, and twice during low REM alpha. 5 were given alpha feedback training prior to sleep onset. Arousals from high alpha REM sleep yielded significantly higher lucidity ratings. Alpha feedback had no effect upon lucidity or REM...
Perceptual and Motor Skills August 1, 1982 Piercarla Cicogna, Corrado Cavallero, M Bosinelli 10 citations
Reports of 56 dreams from 5 subjects, given upon awakening during the second REMP, were analyzed and compared with a further 3 reports of each dream, obtained the following morning, 3 days, and 1 wk. later, using a system of Coding Units (CUs) and the Scoring System for Latent Structure of Foulkes. There were no significant differences between the second, third, and fourth reports, while the...
Perceptual and Motor Skills February 1, 1982 Keith M. T. Hearne
A group of 70 persons (16 males, 54 females) who experience lucid dreams (those in which the dreamer becomes aware of dreaming) were given set tasks to perform in the lucid state and asked to report what happened. A pilot study had indicated certain consistencies of effect between subjects. Evidence was obtained, based on the reports of 16 persons, to suggest that it is often difficult to...
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1981 Paul Swartz, Lise Seginer
A group of 60 university students, 30 men and 30 women, completed Hood's Mysticism Scale, Research Form D (M Scale) and performed a motor skills task following body rotation. Subjects with the strongest tendency to mystical experience exhibited least destability, although only for the women was the association statistically significant. Women as a group scored higher on the M Scale and...
Perceptual and Motor Skills June 1, 1981 Stephen P. La Berge, Lynn E. Nagel, William C. Dement et al. 237 citations
SUMMARY: The occurrence of lucid dreaming (dreaming while being conscious that one is dreaming) has been verified for 5 selected subjects who signaled that they knew they were dreaming while continuing to dream during unequivocal REM sleep. The signals consisted of particular dream actions having observable concomitants and were performed in accordance with pre-sleep agreement. The ability of...
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1980 Stephen P. La Berge 122 citations
The author was the subject in an investigation of the feasibility of learning to dream lucidly, i.e., while knowing that one is dreaming. During the 3-yr. study, the subject recorded a total of 389 lucid dreams and developed a mnemonic technique for the voluntary induction of lucid dreams (MILD). Without using any induction procedure, the subject reported less than 1 lucid dream per month....
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1979 John Michael Williams 2 citations
D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) produces distortions of visual perception and analgesia. Evidence is advanced from a functional standpoint that the observed visual effects result from an attenuation of light-evoked input to the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) from the purely centripetal pathways of the retina. More slowly responding visual afferents or those with more complex...
Perceptual and Motor Skills April 1, 1978 L. R. T. Williams
Learning, performance and patterns of inter- and intra-individual variability of 32 experienced Transcendental Meditators were compared to those of 32 non-meditators. The data indicated that certain effects attributed to the practice of Transcendental Meditation (such as increased alertness and maintenance of attention, greater consistency and less anxiety) are not manifested in terms of...
Perceptual and Motor Skills October 1, 1977 M. L. Griffin, D. Foulkes
29 subjects attempted, over a period of 10 nights, to influence their dreams using techniques described in Garfield's book, Creative Dreaming (1974). A target suggestion was selected from a list of six suggestions compiled by, or for, each subject. Subjects kept daily records during the experiment both of their efforts at dream influence and of the dreams they recalled. Four judges attempted to...
Perceptual and Motor Skills August 1, 1977 Bernhard Haller
An efficient system is described which allows the retrieval from dreams in response to certain questions. No coding is necessary, as the computer works with a large thesaurus containing all semantic relations. For each chosen question word it is possible to find automatically all dreams containing related words (synonyms, subnotions, etc.) and to print them in the output list. Four examples are...
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1976 Kristian Holt‐hansen 51 citations
9 Ss were requested to perceive simultaneously the taste of beer and a rhythmic sound, the pitch of which could be varied. The frequencies at which Ss experienced harmony between the taste and the sound were determined. At the pitch of harmony Ss reported characteristic experiences, e.g., optimum taste of the beer, rhythmic sensations in the head, and tickling sensations in the jaws and the...
Perceptual and Motor Skills October 1, 1976 L. R. T. Williams, B. L. Vickerman
46 college female volunteers were given 66 10-sec. trials on the pursuit rotor task in 3 practice sessions (18, 30, and 18 trials/session). After the first 18 trials, the 23 subjects who were practiced Transcendental Meditators meditated for a 20-min. period followed by a 5-min. “waking” phase prior to the performance of a further 30 trials on the rotor. A 4-min. rest was taken before resuming...
Perceptual and Motor Skills October 1, 1976 Herbert B. Puryear, Charles Thomas Cayce, Mark A. Thurston
The effects of a new meditation technique were investigated; 159 A.R.E. members were randomly assigned either to a treatment or control group with the former learning the new technique using a home-study workbook manual and the latter continuing their customary meditational techniques. Analysis of variance (repeated measures) was used to compare group means of the scale scores yielded by two...
Perceptual and Motor Skills August 1, 1976 L. R. T. Williams, P. G. Herbert
30 college male meditators had a 20-min. meditation followed by a 6-min. waking phase prior to 5-min. continuous practice on the pursuit rotor task. This was followed by a 4-min. rest then a further 2-min. of pursuit rotor practice. A similar group of college males who were non-meditators ( N = 30) followed the same procedures except that instead of meditating they sat quietly for the initial...
Perceptual and Motor Skills February 1, 1976 Lawrence Casler
Although the concept of consciousness is not necessary for the behavioral scientist, it is closely related to a number of psychological concepts that are generally believed to be necessary. Consciousness may be defined as the very short-term memory of a just-completed perceptual act. It may thus be understood as a psychological consequence of psychological antecedents. The question of how brain...
Perceptual and Motor Skills October 1, 1975 Sally Casswell
The study examined the effect of monetary incentive on the performance of five tasks after two heterogeneous groups of experienced users of cannabis and previously naive subjects had smoked placebo material and two dose levels of cannabis. The performance of the motivated subjects was compared with that of two non-motivated matched groups. Dose-related impairment was found on four of the five...
Perceptual and Motor Skills June 1, 1975 Joel Younger, Wayne Adriance, Ralph J. Berger 37 citations
Electroencephalograms (EEGs) and DC electrooculograms (EOGs) were recorded during Transcendental Meditation periods for 8 experienced Ss. The records, scored blind showed that all but 2 Ss spent considerable portions of their meditation periods in unambiguous physiological sleep.
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1974 Kenneth R. Pelletier 79 citations
Unpaid, normal volunteers (20 men and 20 women) were administered the autokinetic test, the embedded-figures test (EFT), and the rod-and-frame test (RFT) prior to meditation instruction. After 3 mo. of instruction in Transcendental Meditation, Ss were retested and demonstrated increased ego distance and field independence on all of the above tests. These variations in an autonomic, enduring...
Perceptual and Motor Skills October 1, 1974 Larry A. Hjelle 81 citations
15 experienced transcendental meditators and 21 novice meditators were administered Bendig's anxiety scale, Rotter's Locus of Control scale, and Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory of self-actualization. As predicted, experienced meditators were significantly less anxious and more internally controlled than beginning meditators. Likewise, experienced meditators were significantly higher,...