Infra-Dreaming and Dream-Awake States: A Case Study
Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
Sleep and Hypnosis March 3, 2016 DOI: 10.5350/sleep.hypn.2016.180105 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Case report Peer reviewed |
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| Topics | Dreaming |
| Key points | Proposes the term "infra-dreaming" (or "infra-reality"), borrowed from the literary term "infrarealism," to describe the rare continuation and magnification of dream content and dream-like dynamics into waking consciousness, a melding that occurs without obvious or diagnosed mental disorders but with significant observable temporary deficits in short- and long-term memory. |
Abstract
The rare occurrence of the continuation and magnification of dream content, "reality," and "free-wheeling" dynamics (fleeting, poignant, meaningful, and meaningless), intersecting with and interspersed within awake reality and consciousness is here described, for lack of better terms or known conditions, as infra-dreaming, or infra-reality.This term is borrowed from a literary source, "infrarealism," because it captures the seamless spilling over of dream and dream-like consciousness into wakeful consciousness with a melding of the two, without obvious or diagnosed mental disorders, but with significant (observable) temporary deficits in short and long term memory.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on dreaming, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dreaming: a conceptual framework for philosophy of mind and empirical research | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Metaphor and hyperassociativity: the imagination mechanisms behind emotion assimilation in sleep and dreaming | 2015 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Varieties of Lucid Dreaming Experience | 2000 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Experimental Research on Dreaming: State of the Art and Neuropsychoanalytic Perspectives | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Neurobiology of Consciousness: Lucid Dreaming Wakes Up | 2009 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |