PLoS One
October 14, 2026
Emma Peters, Jakob Poehlmann, Xinlin Wang et al.
The relationship between the dreamed body and the physical body remains an open question in sleep and dream research. This study examined whether somatosensory stimulation applied during REM sleep modulates the corresponding dream content under controlled conditions. Using a within-subject design, we compared three stimulation modalities-electrical muscular, galvanic vestibular, and haptic...
October 13, 2026
Yanqi Lyu, Huanyu Liu
preprint
Dream research has traditionally relied on small samples and retrospective self-reports, which are vulnerable to memory decay. The present study combines big data with natural language processing to investigate dreams that users spontaneously shared on Weibo, a major Chinese social media platform. Using the keywords “dream of,” “dream about,” and “in a dream,” we collected posts from April of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 13, 2026
Pramod Pillai
preprint
Conscious perception, imagery and dreaming differ in what drives them, yet may share one actively maintained organization: a single running model of the present that covers the world, the body and where one is in it. I propose that operating this organization constitutes experience. The theory names three features needed for any experience: running, in which the model’s content advances by its...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 13, 2026
Sergey Antonovich Kravchenko
preprint
Center for Anticipation 2.0 is an independent research initiative founded by Sergey Antonovich Kravchenko, continuing the work of the original Center for Anticipation (2008–2018). The project investigates how possible futures are represented in human experience through dreams, intuition, premonitions, altered states of consciousness, and anticipatory processes. Particular attention is given to...
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
October 13, 2026
Francisco Quinteiro Pires
By drawing on shamanic dreaming, this article approaches the conceptualisations of Indigenous thinkers, such as Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Ailton Krenak, who envision a future of interdependence and care between human beings and all matter on Earth, increasingly harmed by predatory capitalism. It specifically explores the visuality of the Yanomami cosmology and Ailton Krenak’s concept of...
OSF Preprints
October 12, 2026
Evan Richard Nolan
preprint
A pilot coding instrument for turning free text first person reports of experience into structured, comparable data. The manual defines five dimensions, each with definitions, boundary cases and worked examples: vividness, world anchoring (internally generated versus externally anchored), agency, reality status at the time, and interpretive load (how much of a report asserts meaning or...
Frontiers in Sleep
October 12, 2026
Adriana Michalak, Claudia Picard-Deland, Giulio Bernardi et al.
The sleeping brain hosts a spectrum of subjective experiences, ranging from fleeting hypnagogic images and simple thoughts to vivid, full-fledged dreams and lucid dreaming. The works published in this Research Topic present novel methodological and conceptual approaches to studying these experiences. Contributions span the challenges of studying dreaming in clinical populations (Fischmann et...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 11, 2026
Oliva Fmoo
preprint
Short Description An exploration of hypnagogic and hypnopompic states as perceptual thresholds between sleep and wakefulness. The text proposes sustained presence at the threshold as a method for investigating experiences that may otherwise remain unseen and unconceived. Abstract This work investigates the phenomenology of hypnagogic and hypnopompic states as potential thresholds for exploring...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 11, 2026
Andrew Breen
preprint
Carl Jung theorised that the human psyche contains an inherited framework, the collective unconscious, populated by universal archetypes. As large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast corpora of textual data, this paper investigates whether they spontaneously construct distinct archetype-like regions within their high-dimensional latent spaces. The paper proposes that these regions...
The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
October 11, 2026
Mahmoud Ahmed Bekiet, Sahar Marei Zaki Youssef, Ahmed Jado Nabih Ali
Abstract Background Dreams reflect memory processes, incorporating long-term and autobiographical experiences. Early childhood memories, though often inaccessible consciously, may persist implicitly and appear symbolically in dreams, especially during emotional processing. This study aims to assess the frequency and themes of childhood-related memories in adult dreams in Luxor. Methods This...