Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
March 5, 2013
Lampros Perogamvros
A scientific study of consciousness should take into consideration both objective and subjective measures of conscious experiences. To this date, very few studies have tried to integrate third-person data, or data about the neurophysiological correlates of conscious states, with first-person data, or data about subjective experience. Inspired by Morel's invention (Casares, 1940), a literary...
Frontiers in Psychology
2013
Melanie G. Rosen
58 citations
I propose a narrative fabrication thesis of dream reports, according to which dream reports are often not accurate representations of experiences that occur during sleep. I begin with an overview of anti-experience theses of Norman Malcolm and Daniel Dennett who reject the received view of dreams, that dreams are experiences we have during sleep which are reported upon waking. Although...
Frontiers in Psychology
2011
Shimon Edelman
By what empirical means can a person determine whether he or she is presently awake or dreaming? Any conceivable test addressing this question, which is a special case of the classical metaphysical doubting of reality, must be statistical (for the same reason that empirical science is, as noted by Hume). Subjecting the experienced reality to any kind of statistical test (for instance, a test...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Michael Schredl, Daniel Erlacher
The International Journal of Dream Research is reaching its third year. The two issues of 2009 included 13 original papers and one invited essay. These articles covered a large variety of topics like lucid dreaming, dream recall, dream content, nightmares, dreams and psychopathology, and sleep quality. Submissions from all over the world including Canada, the United States of America, the...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2009
Valérie Schäfer, Klaus Bader
6 citations
Summary. There is ample evidence that bad dreams and post-traumatic nightmares are a common consequence of exposure to traumatic events both among children and adults. The aim of the present study was to examine to what extent early-life maltreatment experiences are associated with dreams even many years later in adulthood. 37 patients suffering from primary insomnia recorded their dreams for...
Approaching Religion
October 27, 2026
Mila Santala
In this article I examine how Elsa Heporauta (1883–1960) produced, interpreted and circulated esoteric knowledge in early-twentieth-century Finland, situating her work within a vibrant esoteric milieu. Drawing on archival notebooks, manuscripts and lectures, I analyse her epistemic practices through lived esotericism and meaning-making theory. Although Heporauta was a visible cultural figure,...
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
October 26, 2026
Amirhossein Rajabiun, S. M. Hossein Mousavi Nasab, Dariush Boostani
End-of-life dreams and visions (ELDVs) are meaningful subjective experiences commonly reported by dying patients. While prior research has shown their emotional and existential value, evidence from non-Western settings remains scarce. This study explored the lived experiences and meanings of ELDVs among Iranian patients with advanced cancer. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA),...
PsyArXiv Preprints
October 24, 2026
preprint
Lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, and sleep-related out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are usually defined by a characteristic feature, although considerable phenomenological variability exists within each phenomenon. We explored how different experiential features were organized across participant-level profiles within these phenomena. Data came from an online survey completed by 389 adults who...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 22, 2026
Maxson John McDowell
preprint
We know that biology’s almost astronomical complexity can, in principle, be explained by the paradigm of natural selection, together with John Holland’s new paradigm of an emergent hierarchy of increasingly complex adaptive systems (CASs). This paper shows that these two paradigms might also explain conscious experience, an explanation that, though anticipated by the narratologist Bernini, has...
Scientific Reports
October 22, 2026
Robin Bekrater-Bodmann
Abstract: The amputation of a limb requires substantial physical and psychosocial adjustment to a changed life situation. As a prosthesis often facilitates this process, its integration into one’s body representation, referred to as prosthesis embodiment, has been proposed as a marker of adjustment. Building on previous evidence that negative consequences of limb amputation are reflected in how...